Eye see

We had a bizarre trip to the eye doctor last week. The good news is that Sawyer’s eyes appear to be developing just fine. She does not think he has a lazy eye. If anything, she said, he may have an extra fold of skin between his eye and the bridge of his nose that give him the appearance of being slightly cross-eyed. This will disappear when his nose begins to fill out (as it undoubtedly will given his genes). I personally think that his left eye has self-corrected in the past few months. But it wasn’t MY opinion we were talking about. It was HERS. And, she was full of opinions. Given that she is only three-and-a-half feet tall, I guess she has to stand for something. Before we even started talking about eyes she told us NEVER to vaccinate our child because the Amish don’t have autism, and if we DO vaccinate (um band-aids still on legs from 6 month appointment) then DON’T get the MMR or at least wait until after they are two. We were also told to never give our baby a bottle on his back, switch from Cows milk formula to Goats milk (Formula? Does that even exist?), practice rolling from left to right (she thinks this is his weaker side – I think he was just looking at her thinking ‘who is this crazy lady’), buy him a set of stackable toys and a playschool hammer peg set, turn the temperature in the house up and take his socks off cause the Robeez are interfering with his traction, NEVER let him creep around the room holding onto furniture, encourage an extended crawling period to develop binocular vision (at least THAT had something to do with eyes) and the list of COMMANDS just went on and on. And I kept thinking, WHAT kind of doctor are you supposed to be exactly? So, yes, now I am completely paranoid about the MMR and plan to do lots of reading on the subject. Everything else she said that wasn’t directly related to how healthy my baby’s eyes are I plan to conveniently forget.