InfantSee

When I was expecting Miss Cadence, my awesome eye doctor told me about a program called InfantSee. The program allows babies between 6 and 12 months to get a free comprehensive eye exam. With our extensive family history of poor eye sight and vision abnormalities (strabismus, astigmatism), and the fact that it was a hell of a deal, I saw no reason not to get Cadence evaluated.

Per normal, Cadence behaved amazingly well in spite of the appointment being during her normal nap time. She very eagerly reached for any of the optical aides that Cheryl (the assistant) and Dr. Preston used. Cadence is pretty happy to just play with people so to have new objects and things to look at in front of her made her very happy and she did her best to gum anything she could.

Even when they put drops in her eyes, my former least favorite activity, she didn't fuss. Only when I held her down a bit did she make noise but for the actual drop placement, she didn't make a peep. Poor kid, yesterday was shots and today was eye drops.

They kindly dimmed the lights in our exam room so Cade's dilated eyes wouldn't bother her but I went the extra mile and put the disposable sunglasses on her, thinking that she'd rip them off. I'm not sure if she was too tired to care or if she appreciated the change, but she kept the sunglasses on until we left the office and eventually fell asleep with them on in the car.

Overall, the appointment went extremely well. Dr. Preston, who has done my eyes for years, fell in love with sweet Cadence and called her her "Grand Patient" which I thought was cute. Cade appears to be nearsighted right now and we'll re-evaluate her eyes in 6 months to see if theres any noticable change.

In the mean time, feast your eyes on these!



Dr. Preston (holding Cadence) and Cheryl





BIG brown eyes!




Very dilated, yet so very happy!