I have noticed this for a while - DS (6 months) appears ever so slightly cross-eyed. When he focuses on close objects like my face his eyes are never quite aligned. It's not massively obvious: he looks like adults I know who have a slightly lazy eye, IFSWIM. Anyway I just thought it was an age thing.
Today though, I took DS to be weighed and the HV (who is great) asked whether she could check something. She got him to track a pen and then said, 'it's nothing to worry about yet, but...'. She said that we will keep an eye on it (no pun) and that she can refer us to an opthalmologist if needs be, but that it could just be that he has a wide nose-bridge.
Anyway something accured to me - I have always said that DS's hand-eye coordination is poor and I just assumed that this was developmental. Tonight I observed him and what is wierd is that his manipulation skills are quite good - e.g. he accurately feeds himself with a spoon if I hand it to him - but when he reaches to grab, he sort of aims in the general direction and then moves his hand and uses touch to find the object. Like tonight I held his favourite rattle in front of him - he ended up grabbing my thumb first. Similar when he touches my hair/face - he sort of flails his hand at it like a 2/3 month old before he finds what he wants and grabs it.
Does anyone have any experience of similar? What did it end up being? Should I request a referal or does the hand-eye coordination just sounds like normal development? Dr Google gave me exactly no answers as to what it could be...
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6 month old baby eyes not quite right... experiences please!
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Purplelooby · 28/02/2013 22:21
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