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What does your pediatrician think?

Because we respect our fellow HNers, there should be no doubt that OP did (or is about to do) the literal most obvious thing of consulting with a pediatrician.

They're asking for support and advice from their community.

I don't think it's impolite to ask a clarification question. Parents with their first child often have unrealistic expectations of development milestones. We want to get that out of the way first. Crucially, the OP has not provided a diagnosis (source of blindness), which one would get after soliciting medical advice and conducting tests.

I have a friend who got his first daughter a hearing test. The audiologist delayed the test twice until he finally gave up.

His daughter was able to hear instructions like “go get your socks” but since she was two and not talking, they leapt to the conclusion that it was probably hearing related.

Three years later, I still make fun of him for it but at the time I tried to keep a straight face.

Ironically, he’s a medical doctor himself.

In some places babies get a hearing test by default, definitely took one thing off our list of worries.

The comment read to me as disrespectfully implying to check with a pediatrician as if OP hadn't already. But ironically... perhaps that was my own disrespectful reading of the comment.

> Parents with their first child often have unrealistic expectations of development milestones.

This is a great point. There were several instances when either me or my wife (or both of us) thought something was wrong with our baby, until we consulted with our pediatrician, who would laugh and then calmly explain why we were jumping the gun. Haha.

It's important to know what the level of impairment is in order to give advice. As an example, I used to play PlanetSide 2 with two legally blind people who could still get more kills than me and with one other who could sit in a tank turret and shoot at the coloured blobs, so "blind" could mean a broad range of ability.

Guessing you guys played Vannu cus there is no way that legally blind people were seeing their shadowy asses in night battles!

"might" in OPs case suggest otherwise.

Concur. It's not clear how you reached this conclusion, definitely talk to your pediatrician. It can take a baby anywhere from 4-10 months to be able to focus their eyes on any object more than 6-8 inches from their face. Most kids start to focus around 6 months, but a delay in and of itself does not indicate an abnormality. If the pediatrician sees a cause for concern, they will refer to a specialist who can conduct tests.

This is a fair question. We are working with the pediatrician, neurologist, optician, etc. we are ina birth to 3 program. Definitely not just me worrying. There hasn't been aconclusive diagnosis yet, but like I said things are concerning.

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