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Babies & first checks
How little eyes develop, and when each check should happen from the first days of life.
Babies
When should my baby have a first eye check?
The timeline most parents are never given, and what happens at each stage.
Babies
Cross eyed baby: what is normal, and when to have it checked
Your baby's eyes just crossed for a second. What is normal at 2, 4 and 8 months, and when to book a check.
Babies
When can babies see? The first year, month by month
The newborn who sees you best at feeding distance, and everything that follows in a single remarkable year.
Babies & first checks
A blue-grey birthmark around my baby's eye: the check it needs
The birthmark is the visible half. Why the eye behind it needs its own appointment.
Babies & first checks
There's a hard lump at my child's eyebrow, what is it?
A firm painless lump at the outer eyebrow, and why it almost never means what parents fear.
Babies
Why does a premature baby need extra eye check-ups?
Screening does not stop when the ROP appointments do. Why a baby born early keeps being watched.
Babies
My baby does not look at me yet
He looks past you, or through you. What that usually means, and the signs that should not wait.
Babies & first checks
My newborn's eyelid will not fully open, what does that mean?
Birth swelling, a lid muscle that did not finish developing, or something pressing on it. Here is how to tell them apart.
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