Baby · 6–18 months

One photo, one pale pupil, and a question that cannot wait until the next routine check.

Most clear on their own by the first birthday, helped along by one gentle massage.

The newborn who sees you best at feeding distance, and everything that follows in a single remarkable year.

Rare, and most children treated early survive it. The screening tool is your own camera roll.

Not an eye and a spare. Why a turned eye is really a question about a pair.

A lid muscle that did not finish developing, and why we watch it for vision, not for looks.

A firm painless lump at the outer eyebrow, and why it almost never means what parents fear.

A growth chart, an immunisation record, and one page most parents never read. What it says about eyes, and what it leaves to you.

The compliment every big-eyed baby gets, and the three signs that turn it into an appointment this week.

A cloudy lens in a baby is a different problem from a cloudy lens at seventy. The difference is time.

Why some eye examinations happen while a child is asleep, and what the day actually looks like.

Eyes that will not stay still. What the check is looking for, and why the head turn is a good sign.