Getting your first pair of glasses

[packman]

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[elleng]

1. 'WOW! NOW I get it!'

:thumbsup?

[sheshe2]

2. Love!

[OriginalGeek]

3. Our daughter was a little older than that when she got hers

but not by much. We knew they must be working because she kept lifting them up and down off her eyes and exclaiming "Big mommy, yittle mommy, big mommy, yittle mommy..." Mommy was keen on only half of that.

[Raster]

4. how freakin' adorable!

[Ron Obvious]

5. I wonder how they determine required prescription strength for a kid that age.

Try different strengths until we get that look maybe?

[Thor_MN]

6. By imaging the retina.

By seeing how much correction is needed to get the retina in focus, you know how much correction is needed to get the world in focus on the retina. The challenge, of course, is getting the baby to sit still and look at the same spot long enough.

[Mosby]

10. why don't they do that for everyone?

just curious.

[Thor_MN]

11. They do, most places. They then refine it because you can talk.

With an infant, you can't ask if 1 or 2 is better.

[TeamPooka]

12. or worse?

[Thor_MN]

13. Well, one could ask, but one shouldn't expect an intelligible answer from an infant.

[NNadir]

7. I was that happy when I got mine, but I was in my 40's.

[Fla Dem]

8. The delight on her face is so precious.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I remember that feeling very well.

Got my first pair when I was 7. They didn't help my social life - I looked like a dork - but suddenly being able to see clearly was awesome.

[Codeine]

14. Same age I got mine.

We went to the grocery store after the optometrist; I clearly remember walking around the aisles taking them off and putting them back on repeatedly, marveling at how clear everything had suddenly become. I understood via discussion that I had bad eyesight, but that moment when I went from half-blind to 20/20 was amazing and so much more than I was capable of anticipating.