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Breastfeeding a Baby with Glasses

AuthBot

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?

Help, My 16 month old won't keep his glasses on!

AuthBot

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. [...]

Genuine Baby with Glasses T-shirts and more available

jrfuda

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 s [...]

Cool Babies Wear Glasses T-Shirts, Onesies and Bibs

jrfuda

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.

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Added new RSS Feeds

jrfuda

Hi everyone,

We recently added some new RSS feeds to the site. In case you don't know what RSS is, it stands for "Really Simple Syndication." Here's the Wikipedia Definition:

RSS is a family of web
feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
An RSS document, which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel,"
contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the
full text. RSS makes [...]

10mth old got her glasses today...

LilysDad

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 hal [...]

Glasses or No

kim051172

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 [...]

Installed a new site template

jrfuda

I hope everyone's enjoying the site's new look. I installed a new template today that provides a little more space for content and more customization options. Among these options are the ability to use custom typography, which does not seem to be working in all content right now. Here are some examples, if it's working they should appear different than the rest of the text:

This is alert text. It should appear as an amber box with an exclamation graphic with i [...]

4 month old is going to get glasses

lizadams

Hi, can anyone help me out here?!! I just found out my 4 month old son, Brandon is a -6.50 nearsighted, (whatever that means) and he is going to have to have glasses, I was so shock and speechless I couldn't believe my son at a very young age needed glasses! I mean I thought their eye sight doesn't fully develope til they are 6 months old. I am wondering if I need a second Opinion, but I did take him to an eye institute which I was referral by his doctor. If any one can give me some informati [...]

How to add photos to your profile gallery

jrfuda

Adding a photo is very easy, though not explained anywhere on the site, so here's little tutorial.

On
the menu located on the left side of the screen, is an entry called
"your profile," click this entry and you'll be brought to your
profile's screen. On this screen should be a box with several tabs. One
of those boxes should be labeled "CB Profile Gallery." Click this tab.
Next, click the link "Submit New Gallery Entry." A box will appear
below the link letting you enter a tit [...]

Hello

kym888

I was just online again looking for the company that makes my son's glasses and I came across your site. I remembered it when we first found out my son needed glasses and I was researching online. I remember coming across your site. I unfortunately didn't post anything at that time. Now after all this time I felt I wanted to post something.

It was a complete shock when they told us Benjamin needed glasses at 3 months old. We of course went for 2 other opinions. One said he didn't ne [...]

Hard Day

rkline

Today has been a really hard day! My girls will be one year old
in less than 24 hours! I have so much to do, but the fight to keep the glasses on continues! Iris, the twin who doesn't wear them, keeps pulling Echo's glasses off. Aydan, my son who is three does very well. We got everyone sunglasses so that they could all wear them. Iris won't have anything to do with that. Aydan thinks it is fun though. Echo will leave them on while she is involved wi [...]

My Story

rkline

I have a 3 year old son and twin daughters who are turning 1 on the 23rd of May. One of my twin daughers, the oldest and smallest of the two just got glasses last week. Only one week before her first Birthday. We have had a tough time adjusting to the fact that our little angel has glasses. Now that we are accepting that, we are having a hard time keeping them on her. If she is busy playing, she sometimes will leave them on, but in the car or when she gets out of [...]

Use your blog to contribute

jrfuda

Hi everyone. Every member of BabiesWithGlasses.org has the ability to create blog entries. This is the easiest way to contribute to the site... Just type in your thoughts, hit "save" and you're done! Selected blog entries will be turned into news articles and featured on the front page. Thanks again for supporting the site!

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Add Another Baby With Glasses

jrfuda

It's official, our second son - Caleb - got his first pair of glasses last week. He was originally examined and the determination was made at three months that he would need glasses, however, they wanted to wait until he was 6 months old before writing his a prescription to ensure that the initial assessment wasn't too strong

Now JC and Caleb both have glasses. JC was very excited to see his little brother wearing glasses too. Here's one of the first pictures [...]

Scooting Along

jrfuda

JC started scooting (crawling using his arms only) on Sunday. Now we REALLY have to keep our eye on him!

He's getting better at sitting up by himself too. He has a little toy piano he like to play with, and we can sit him in front of it and he'll play with it while maintaining his balance for several minutes at a time.

His physical therapist is very impressed with his progress and soon his sessions may be reduced to quarterly, or be e [...]

JC Update

jrfuda

JC recovered well from two surgeries he had last Thursday. JC had an adenoidectomy and ear tubes inserted in his eardrums. He was a little groggy the day of the survery, but the next day he was his happy little self again!

Over the weekend he even got to splash around in his pool (with his ears protected of course). It's hard to beleive he'll be 9-months old in a few days.