We had an appointment not too long ago, and Edwin wasn't suppose to be seen until the end of Oct. But I pushed this appointment up because I really thought his left eye was turning in. I had metioned this to the doc last visit and he told me it was b/c he has a wide bridge (aka he has his Dad's bridge, and it looks even more pronounced because between his eyes is still flat because he's only a baby and there is no protruding nose bone there yet.) Well, I really believed him last time, but the more I held Edwin while feeding him I swore his eye was turning it. I also captured what I thought was a turned in eye in a couple of pics. EI, my step-mom, and others also mentioned it. So I had the appoint moved up.
Our opthamologist listened to what I had to say (I also brought to his attention again his nystagmus which is why we were going back in only 3 months initially.) He noticed the nystagmus which only happens when Edwin is moving his eyes all the way over to look at something from the side...like when I am holding him in a reclined position in the bend of my left arm and he is looking at me. They are quick 2-3 "beats." Anyway...about that issue, our doc isn't too worried about them, but will still touch base with his friend who's a pedi nuerologist. So when I showed him the pictures of the turned in eye...on this blog which he thought was the coolest thing EVER, he showed me something that convinced me Edwin's eye is not turning in. He shown a light in his eyes as he was looking straight at it. "What do you see?", he asked. "A white dot in each pupil." "Now, if my eye was turning in," he said, "then the turned in eye would have the dot of light fall in the colored part of my eye...the light dots wouldn't match up." Sure enough, I looked through EVERY picture of Edwin that I thought I saw a turned in eye and all of the light dots from the flash matched up. Because of his wide bringe, flatened upper nose area, and beautiful almond shaped eyes that have a slight inner flap to them, it's almost like an optical illusion that his eye is turning in. Because you can't always see the inner white part of his eye because of the skin fold creating the lovely almond shape, it makes it look like his eye is turning in. I was impressed at how he explained this to me, and also told me for the first 2 years of his son's life his wife was convinced of the same thing I was. Anyway, it was good to know we are not going to have to patch Edwin's eye because it's turning in. One less foreign object attached to his beautiful face...thank godness....
Especially dramatized here because of the angle of the shot and he is looking up and at an angle...but the light dot is at about 4:30 o'clock in both eyes
You can see the flaps of skin in his inner eye and his wide bridge pretty well in this picture
And straight on you see the dots in the center of his pupils (this is an older pic)
And the same is in this current one
2 comments:
I ran across your blog about a month ago when researching some info about preemies. I have since stopped by a few times to "check" on your precious babies. I am a mom to a 29 weeker. I was "excited" to read your post about the possible turned in eye. We have had this same experience with our son and the opthamologist has told us twice that it was his facial structure and not a true eye turn but he has never explained it as well as the opthamologist that saw you son did. We (family, EI, peditrician, friends) have not been totally convinced. After reading your post I am going to go thru an look at all my pictures and check the "light". Thanks!
I had a pronounced turn in my eye at E's age. You can see it in pictures. Back then they didn't have pediatric eye doctors and no one did anything until I was 4. But you could see it ALL the time. At this age their nervous system is changing rapidly so things can go awry that don't mean anything and i'm so glad this may be one of those things.
This is something I am very worried about with Arianna but by her age I was already profoundly cross eyed, so I think she's missed it. Thank God.
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