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My 9 month old daughter just got her glasses today. They are soft Mira-flex glasses with a crochet strap holding them on. She is doing pretty well considering her age and desire to put everything in her mouth! My question is about nursing. Should I try to leave her glasses on her while nursing? It looks as if they get pushed to the side a bit and its probably uncomfortable. Any advice?

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My son received his glasses two days ago. For the first day he took them off a couple of times, but mainly they stayed on for a good six hours. Yesterday, he kept the glasses on all morning, but after his nap he kept taking off the glasses. I finally gave up putting them back on at 6 pm and let him go glasses-less until his bedtime at 8 pm. Today he won't keep the glasses on for more than 5 minutes. I don't know what to do to keep the glasses on him. Does anyone have any suggestions. His vision is pretty bad, he is a -8, so he should want to keep the glasses on.

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After discovering Cafe Press and the 3 Little Monkeys shop, I wanted to create some custom T-Shirts with more designs and bolder statements for infants and children with glasses. Being none too shabby with Photoshop, I set to work and developed several designs and started uploading them to Cafe Press. You can now visit the Babies with Glasses store at Cafe Press and buy T-shirts for your own babies and kids with glasses! The "Shop" link on the tabbed menu will take you there as well.

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Hi everyone, while doing my routine search of Babies with Glasses-related stuff, I came accross this cool T-Shirt at Café Press , that's also available as a bib or onesie.

The T-Shirt is available in white, pink, blue or tan. The onesie is available in white, pink or blue; and the bib is available in white only. There are a lot of other neat original T-shirts and such at the site as well

3 Little Monkeys , a shop at Cafe Press, has a whole line of T-shirts for infants and children that wear glasses or eye patches. You should give them a visit.

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Hi! Just found this website!  Our 8 month old twin boys need glasses!  I thought we were just checking the optic nerve for damage.  The boys were born a little over 8 weeks early.  I had no idea their vision was being checked.  I mean, I'm glad they did and all, but we were completely blown away by the whole thing! Anyhow, now come the questions.  First of all, what type of frames does anyone reccomend - then, how do you keep them on?!  Even if they'll leave they're own glasses on, I'm not sure one brother is going to leave his other brother's on!  We'll be thankfull for any advice!

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Our daughter was diagnosed as severely farsighted (+7.5) last week, she got her glasses today. We were convinced that she wouldn't wear them, but when they finally were able to wrestle them on her, she paused for a few minutes and looked around everywhere, and then kept them on for the whole ride home from the optical shop, until she went to bed a 7:00. We don't know what tomorrow will bring, but we will take it as it comes. We are so new to this, it has been such a ride the last week and half. Once I looked through the glasses, my heart just about burst seeing how strong the prescription was. It is tough to find info out there, other than the basic definitions and descriptions, and we really appreciate this site, I hope more people find it and share stories and ideas, it can feel pretty isolating out there when you can't find people or info that can relate to your situation. Thanks for your site and I will post a picture of Lily with her new glasses.

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My three-year-old was just diagnosed as needing glasses. He has a pretty strong prescription (+3.75). He had one eye that kept turning in so I took him to an ophthalmologist. Like everyone else, I do have problems getting him to keep them on his face, but it seems like there's more to it than just not liking the glasses. He complains that he can't see with them on. In fact, when he does keep them on, he will lift his head and look under them. So, just out of curiosity, tonight we watched Blues Clues, part with the glasses on and part with them off, and it seemed to me that he could tell me what was going on better with the glasses off. Has anyone else run into this?

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