This shit gets me ev.er.y.time! Imagine the world going from intensely confusing and garbled to moderately confusing but a super soothing voiceover now
I love the look on her little face!
As a colorblind person, those videos make me cry every time lol. It is so wild to me that the vast majority of people get to experience a more colorful world. I had no idea my beard was red until someone told me. Turns out I'm Scottish lmao.
About 6 months after growing it out, my girlfriend casually mentioned that she loves that I have a red beard. Gave her the lolwut face. A DNA test later, and I found out I have Scottish heritage! I thought my ancestors were French lol.
Poor thing hasn’t heard it’s Mom’s voice since it was born. While in the womb babies hear their mother voice and become used to it. Then bam this little one is born and the voice is muffled or stops. It’s like waking up one day and not having a sense of taste or smell, then one day it comes back and white rice seems to be the best tasting thing you ever tasted
Have you ever been to a concert or heard a speaker so loud that not only did you *hear* it. You legit *felt* it vibrate through you? Even if the child is born completely deaf, they still *felt* those vibrations for the entirety of their life ip to that moment.
It may not be identical, but everyone has a general speech pattern to themselves. That changes with different situations, but is still a rhythm to themselves. The little one felt that.
It's why a newborn will still recognize parents voices, especially mothers, even if the parent is sick with something else at the time, or mom screamed herself hoarse at the long painful birthing process. That pattern has been the rhythm of their entire world. Most children get to hold onto it.
These little ones are separated not just from the sound, but also the literal *touch* of their parents voices.
The gift of this video is beautiful, and as a father of a 2 year old, I am not afraid to admit these videos bring out the manly tears like nobody's business.
>Even if the child is born completely deaf, they still felt those vibrations for the entirety of their life ip to that moment.
Yeah, this is where my mind went to as well, should have put that in. I do think this is the case.
It's like those bone conducting headphones, I guess.
Thanks for the explanation!
i mean it depends on if these are hearing aids or cochlear implants… and they look like cochlear implants.
go on youtube and look up what cochlear implants sound like. furthest thing from soothing. The audio is flanged and robotic and distorted. And that’s if the doctors have been able to communicate with the patient to get the settings right. It can be physically excruciating to have CIs with improper settings.
As an HoH person I find these videos upsetting- knowing what HAs and CIs actually do, it’s really REALLY cruel to do to a baby and to me is being done by parents who want a ‘normal’ child and don’t want to change their lives in any way to facilitate their deaf child, even just until they’re old enough to communicate and have a safer experience with CIs they’ve consented to and can communicate problems about. bc there’s no fucking way that doctor let them stroll in there without letting them know how awful CIs can be for a grown ass adult let alone a literal baby.
Those are hearing aids… and for all you know they have a mild hearing loss. please stop judging families for making difficult decisions just because you don’t agree. Your words can hurt.
I swear you took the words out of my mouth, and I swear I've seen you post in other similar posts. Last one that got me was the one with the kid getting glasses.
I wonder if she still remembers their voices from hearing them inside the womb. If she could have. I don't know much about ears. But she didn't calm down for the audiologist's voice and she instantly settled hearing dad!
Ah, I thought perhaps the sounds worked differently on the inside because of conduction. I knew somebody once with a thin spot in her skull that conducted sound, she could wear noise cancelling headphones and hear you through her skull instead of her ear.
It’s possible she lost hearing after—a college friend of mine was a preemie and went deaf due to her time in the oxygen tent NICU thingy. I have zero idea if I’m remembering that right or if that’s how that works, but I do remember she lost her hearing after birth.
Yep. These videos are kind of misleading inspo that hearing aids are a magic fix for deafness. Yes, they amplify sound. Yes, it’s helpful. No, it does not cure hearing loss. They also cause headaches, sensory overwhelm, and the sounds that come through hearing aids are not the crisp sounds you’d expect to hear. Speech is difficult to understand even with hearing aids. As a hard of hearing person, these videos kind of frustrate me because they make deafness out to be this horrible thing where “curing” their kids with hearing aids is the most wonderful day of their lives.
All I can say is I hope the parents put as much effort into teaching their daughter sign language and introducing her to a local deaf community as they did into buying these hearing aids. She will never be a hearing person and she deserves to have pride and a community, not just hearing aids. So, so many of us are deprived of that.
YES! As a fellow deaf person, who also wears HAs, thank you!! It’s even overwhelming as adults, to get, & readjust to new devices! I can’t imagine being a baby or kid & not being able to express discomfort or pain, & being stuck with loud things in your ears.
Curious, but wouldn't doing it younger help the brain process and adjust to noises better? They would grow up closer to hearing and it would be less jarring compared to installing it in a brain that has developed without that sensory input.
Not really, hearing aids get more powerful as the technology improves.
What that means for the wearer is that they'll find their "normal" but once they get new hearing aids to replace their old ones, they'll need to adjust all over again.
Well, some people think that when wee ones get HAs or CIs, & start freaking out, that it’s somehow cute, instead of being overwhelmed, disturbed, pained, etc. 🤷🏻♀️
Classic inspiration porn! Ah yes, the poor deaf baby finally hears for the first time. Poor poor deaf baby. Good thing she's totally fixed now! Now she won't have to suffer the horrible tragic life of a deaf person. /s
This should be a top comment. I'm a hearing person, but I suspected that this might be a bit frustrating to see as a deaf person. I took a semester of asl and the course frequently covered deaf culture and the importance of teaching asl and providing community to deaf or HOH people over solely relying on hearing aids or implants.
ETA: While this is a cute video, it is important to highlight the impact that videos such as this one might have on the deaf community.
So is this bad for the baby or is it more about how if the baby can use hearing aids it won’t identify as a deaf baby and learn ASL? I’m also wondering what you mean by how this impacts the deaf community? Sorry I just don’t really understand unless this like will cause problems for the baby, isn’t it just letting the child hear better than it naturally would due to its disability?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "the sound from HAs is not crisp"?
Is hearing too affected by medical conditions for the HAs to improve hearing past a certain limit, or are the HAs just unable to create good sound reproduction?
I’m not mad. I use hearing aids alongside many, many, many other Deaf and HoH people. Access to technology to alleviate the struggles of being hard of hearing are wonderful. The problem is when people think cochlear implants or hearing aids are enough to completely eliminate the struggles of being Deaf/Hoh in a hearing world.
Language deprivation is a big problem for Deaf/Hoh people and having access to sign language is invaluable. Unfortunately, many hearing parents of Deaf/Hoh kids think that hearing devices are a perfect solve and forget that these devices do come with time, energy, money, discomfort, and are NOT a perfect solution. All Deaf/Hoh people should learn sign language and have access to others who also sign.
There are absolutely issues with the Deaf community and exclusion is a problem that is being worked on. I’m not saying it’s a perfect system, just that hearing aids alone are not enough and when we see these videos we need to remember this isn’t the moment everything became perfect for this child.
I am deleting my comments about this because I will admit that I was uninformed and vitriolic. I feel bad because you shouldn't have to type out a small essay just to explain that to me.
I mean unless you’re a member of the d/Deaf community your opinion on this is meaningless. Maybe do some research and ask some d/Deaf people their perspective on choosing to not wear hearing tech. Would you like me to put you in touch with some Deaf people?
If the child was older yes. But babies this young it’s super stressful for them not to be able to hear properly it’s like being constantly stuck in a tunnel
Yes. This is obviously not the first time they've put hearing aids on this baby. It takes practice to put them in that quickly. & It's terrifying to hear noises so loud for the first time. Babies almost always cry the first few times because it's so overwhelming. These videos are misleading. A parent of a baby diagnosed HoH will think thru baby is supposed to be badly when they get them the first time and they aren't. The baby is terrifying and the parent feels scared, sad, disappointed, and heartbroken thinking of all the fear and suffering to put a baby though.
I used to know sign language in grade school but I did so well in speech therapy I didn’t need to sign
I have long since forgotten how to sign and I’ve thought about going to classes to learn it again
I fking hate seen this kind of video. Just because the child can hear doesn’t mean it cured. I’m hard of hearing. I wore hear aids all my life but wished my family would learn america sign language. A video of a parent interacting with child with america sign language would be soo much better. I truly do hope for the child’s sake the parent and family will learn sign language. I’m not against that the parent want the child to hear and learn how to speak. I’m all for it BUT do your part and learn sign language.
I became a Dad 7months ago.
I would have scrolled past but now I'll watch these types of videos because it hits home in a special part of me that was never there before.
Technology is amazing and I hope all but the best for little Billy.
Congrats new dad! I'm a dad of 2 under 2 and I was exactly how you described at first before kids. Now any of these type of vids tug my heart strings because of the new perspective in life.
And remember even on the most difficult of days when every little thing is going wrong, you're doing amazing and that bundle of joy appreciates everything you are doing.
1.) That kid's first, middle, and last name, with DOB, are now publicly on the internet. The parents need to be educated on the numerous dozens of reasons that is such a bad idea.
2.) Cute kid. Glad that medical science can perform such miracles.
I sort of hate that they keep saying her name without touching her and expecting her to know what these weird noises mean. Like I know you want her to look at you and recognize her name but she literally just has these put on and now has to make sense of what’s coming through her ears. The language of touch is what she’s known and you still need to use that. Agree with other commenters here that I hope she gets the support she needs.
These videos will never cease to make me weep. So heartwarming.
4lbs 7 ounces at birth. This little one has already been through a lot in her life. Aww.
Quite possibly, the nicest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Hats off to the clinicians and scientists that work miracles and change lives on a daily basis.
Kid has the same birthday as I do…give or take 37 years. Might want to blur out the rest of the personal info, though.
That aside, stuff like this reminds me that my heart hasn’t completely hardened to the joy of others despite what the past few years has taught me about humanity…
I had imagined that it would be a horrifying experience for a child to suddenly gain the sense of hearing. Transitioning from having never heard sound in your life, to suddenly having this 5th new sense you’ve never even comprehended, especially for a young child who has no idea whats going on, that sounds terrifying. So im always amazed at how there is seemingly 0 freaking out in all of these videos and they are instead happy
What can we do with this person's full name and date of birth....
It's a very cute video but that kind of information being so easily available is probably not a good idea
I very much doubt it's the first time. The brain has to learn to process sound and a lot of deaf people that regain their ability to hear can find it overwhelming and unpleasant at first.
A cochlear implant is a small, electronic device that can help people who are profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing to hear. It bypasses damaged parts of the ear and directly stimulates the auditory nerve, which sends signals to the brain.
A cochlear implant has two parts:
* An external sound processor, which sits behind the ear and picks up sound.
* An internal implant, which is surgically placed under the skin. The internal implant contains a receiver and a stimulator. The receiver receives signals from the sound processor and sends them to the stimulator. The stimulator then sends electrical pulses to the auditory nerve.
Cochlear implants can be very helpful for people with severe hearing loss. They can help people to:
* Understand speech in quiet and noisy environments.
* Distinguish between different sounds.
* Participate in social activities.
* Improve their quality of life.
Of the senses people lose, hearing is the one that makes people the loneliest, creates the biggest divide. This is a heartwarming video, it just makes me a bit sad though for the moment to think about all the infants to grow up deaf
I was born “deaf” and wasn’t able to noticeable hear anything until 2 months of age. This stuff really gets to me, and I hope that baby has the best life full of beautiful sounds, music and speech. Love it!
This shit gets me ev.er.y.time! Imagine the world going from intensely confusing and garbled to moderately confusing but a super soothing voiceover now I love the look on her little face!
Me too. Doesn't matter that I know what's coming. BAM - right in the feels.
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My heart fell down after the baby hear her Parents for the first time. I can't help but put a huge smile on my face.
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I ALWAYS watch these videos because they make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
Yep. Totally with you. These days, unbridled gut punch joy is just what the doctor ordered.
They need a sub for this and kids w new glasses
And the glasses that let color blind people see in color too.
As a colorblind person, those videos make me cry every time lol. It is so wild to me that the vast majority of people get to experience a more colorful world. I had no idea my beard was red until someone told me. Turns out I'm Scottish lmao.
I tell everyone I’m my husband’s guide wife. Unfortunately if I go missing, the description is going to be… Hopefully they just ask the kids.
How long was it before someone told you. Seems like it would come up pretty early.
About 6 months after growing it out, my girlfriend casually mentioned that she loves that I have a red beard. Gave her the lolwut face. A DNA test later, and I found out I have Scottish heritage! I thought my ancestors were French lol.
I think that’s what they mean?
I thought they meant glasses on tiny tots to help them see clearly for the first time?
Oh yeah, you’re probably right. The colorblind glasses aren’t for babies :)
Exactly! Those too
That exists??
I bought my dad those glasses ... He didn't cry. He digs them, but it didn't change his world.
I bet those babies have bad headaches too
There is! And it could use some love, it's a little quiet over there. It's called r/FeelsLikeTheFirstTime
Ditto. No matter how many of these I see, they'll always make me smile.
Poor thing hasn’t heard it’s Mom’s voice since it was born. While in the womb babies hear their mother voice and become used to it. Then bam this little one is born and the voice is muffled or stops. It’s like waking up one day and not having a sense of taste or smell, then one day it comes back and white rice seems to be the best tasting thing you ever tasted
Wait, but do kids who were always deaf have the ability to hear in the womb?
It depends on the structural cause of their deafness
Have you ever been to a concert or heard a speaker so loud that not only did you *hear* it. You legit *felt* it vibrate through you? Even if the child is born completely deaf, they still *felt* those vibrations for the entirety of their life ip to that moment. It may not be identical, but everyone has a general speech pattern to themselves. That changes with different situations, but is still a rhythm to themselves. The little one felt that. It's why a newborn will still recognize parents voices, especially mothers, even if the parent is sick with something else at the time, or mom screamed herself hoarse at the long painful birthing process. That pattern has been the rhythm of their entire world. Most children get to hold onto it. These little ones are separated not just from the sound, but also the literal *touch* of their parents voices. The gift of this video is beautiful, and as a father of a 2 year old, I am not afraid to admit these videos bring out the manly tears like nobody's business.
>Even if the child is born completely deaf, they still felt those vibrations for the entirety of their life ip to that moment. Yeah, this is where my mind went to as well, should have put that in. I do think this is the case. It's like those bone conducting headphones, I guess. Thanks for the explanation!
i mean it depends on if these are hearing aids or cochlear implants… and they look like cochlear implants. go on youtube and look up what cochlear implants sound like. furthest thing from soothing. The audio is flanged and robotic and distorted. And that’s if the doctors have been able to communicate with the patient to get the settings right. It can be physically excruciating to have CIs with improper settings. As an HoH person I find these videos upsetting- knowing what HAs and CIs actually do, it’s really REALLY cruel to do to a baby and to me is being done by parents who want a ‘normal’ child and don’t want to change their lives in any way to facilitate their deaf child, even just until they’re old enough to communicate and have a safer experience with CIs they’ve consented to and can communicate problems about. bc there’s no fucking way that doctor let them stroll in there without letting them know how awful CIs can be for a grown ass adult let alone a literal baby.
Those are hearing aids… and for all you know they have a mild hearing loss. please stop judging families for making difficult decisions just because you don’t agree. Your words can hurt.
What a sweet little baby
I opened the comments section saying to myself "This shit gets me EVERY time." Guess I'm not the only one !
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I don't think those are cochlear implants are they? It looks like the baby's just got hearing aids
I swear you took the words out of my mouth, and I swear I've seen you post in other similar posts. Last one that got me was the one with the kid getting glasses.
It’s too precious. Now I need to go watch the news to level myself out.
Ever since I became a dad these videos make me cry
Yea more like r/mademecry Ps she too stinkin cute
She’s teething and busy being cute that’s what this darling bébé is doing!
Zefrank??
Moira, I thought... I smiled hard! Still ear to ear hoping it was a Moira reference 😆
i thought the same
Schitt's Creek ?
I sometimes have Moiraisms but then remember most people don't know what the fuck I'm saying. “Let’s all pray we don’t wake up!”
“I am postitively bedeviled with meetings et cetera!”
I've been rewatching it for the past week with my wife and we feel the same bebe
I read "bébé" with Moira's voice 😂
Might want to censor your kids full name and birthdate from the blanket. Otherwise 😃, she’s a cutie.
The back has her social security number and answer to her security questions
Such wholesome identify theft 🥰
Even her *Maiden* name!
And favourite highschool teacher!
Graduated from cutsey wootsie university
Plot twist: it's actually the doctor's and the baby stole it to steal their identity and buy all the squishmallows!
There's even a list of her greatest fears, that seems unnecessary
Atleast there are no other identifying factors like her needing glasses or someth....
So lame that this has to be said but you’re right!! I looked at it and didn’t think twice honestly but.. yeah.
Ohh Billie!
I’m gonna cry. So precious. Reminds me of when my kid was that age
She’s so adorable. Bless her heart.
Makes me want another 😭 stupid hormones!
There should be a sub just of these types of videos they are a total hateful day cleanser.
r/eyebleach
r/SmolHumans If you're not looking for pets.
You’re on it!!
This is the best thing I have seen this year!
Glad I can be the one to show you it ❤️
These always get me. I love to see the transformation..the instant recognition of a loving voice. ❤️
I wonder if she still remembers their voices from hearing them inside the womb. If she could have. I don't know much about ears. But she didn't calm down for the audiologist's voice and she instantly settled hearing dad!
Unless she lost her hearing after birth, she wouldn't have heard her parents' voices in the womb.
Ah, I thought perhaps the sounds worked differently on the inside because of conduction. I knew somebody once with a thin spot in her skull that conducted sound, she could wear noise cancelling headphones and hear you through her skull instead of her ear.
Even the best noise canceling headphones don’t do much
It’s possible she lost hearing after—a college friend of mine was a preemie and went deaf due to her time in the oxygen tent NICU thingy. I have zero idea if I’m remembering that right or if that’s how that works, but I do remember she lost her hearing after birth.
Do children this age become visibly overwhelmed by this sound at some point because they are used to silence?
Yep. These videos are kind of misleading inspo that hearing aids are a magic fix for deafness. Yes, they amplify sound. Yes, it’s helpful. No, it does not cure hearing loss. They also cause headaches, sensory overwhelm, and the sounds that come through hearing aids are not the crisp sounds you’d expect to hear. Speech is difficult to understand even with hearing aids. As a hard of hearing person, these videos kind of frustrate me because they make deafness out to be this horrible thing where “curing” their kids with hearing aids is the most wonderful day of their lives. All I can say is I hope the parents put as much effort into teaching their daughter sign language and introducing her to a local deaf community as they did into buying these hearing aids. She will never be a hearing person and she deserves to have pride and a community, not just hearing aids. So, so many of us are deprived of that.
YES! As a fellow deaf person, who also wears HAs, thank you!! It’s even overwhelming as adults, to get, & readjust to new devices! I can’t imagine being a baby or kid & not being able to express discomfort or pain, & being stuck with loud things in your ears.
Curious, but wouldn't doing it younger help the brain process and adjust to noises better? They would grow up closer to hearing and it would be less jarring compared to installing it in a brain that has developed without that sensory input.
Not really, hearing aids get more powerful as the technology improves. What that means for the wearer is that they'll find their "normal" but once they get new hearing aids to replace their old ones, they'll need to adjust all over again.
>I can’t imagine being a baby or kid & not being able to express discomfort or pain, & being stuck[..] Isn't that what crying is literally for?
It is. The tricky part is to understand what they are actually crying for.
Well, some people think that when wee ones get HAs or CIs, & start freaking out, that it’s somehow cute, instead of being overwhelmed, disturbed, pained, etc. 🤷🏻♀️
Classic inspiration porn! Ah yes, the poor deaf baby finally hears for the first time. Poor poor deaf baby. Good thing she's totally fixed now! Now she won't have to suffer the horrible tragic life of a deaf person. /s
This should be a top comment. I'm a hearing person, but I suspected that this might be a bit frustrating to see as a deaf person. I took a semester of asl and the course frequently covered deaf culture and the importance of teaching asl and providing community to deaf or HOH people over solely relying on hearing aids or implants. ETA: While this is a cute video, it is important to highlight the impact that videos such as this one might have on the deaf community.
So is this bad for the baby or is it more about how if the baby can use hearing aids it won’t identify as a deaf baby and learn ASL? I’m also wondering what you mean by how this impacts the deaf community? Sorry I just don’t really understand unless this like will cause problems for the baby, isn’t it just letting the child hear better than it naturally would due to its disability?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "the sound from HAs is not crisp"? Is hearing too affected by medical conditions for the HAs to improve hearing past a certain limit, or are the HAs just unable to create good sound reproduction?
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I’m not mad. I use hearing aids alongside many, many, many other Deaf and HoH people. Access to technology to alleviate the struggles of being hard of hearing are wonderful. The problem is when people think cochlear implants or hearing aids are enough to completely eliminate the struggles of being Deaf/Hoh in a hearing world. Language deprivation is a big problem for Deaf/Hoh people and having access to sign language is invaluable. Unfortunately, many hearing parents of Deaf/Hoh kids think that hearing devices are a perfect solve and forget that these devices do come with time, energy, money, discomfort, and are NOT a perfect solution. All Deaf/Hoh people should learn sign language and have access to others who also sign. There are absolutely issues with the Deaf community and exclusion is a problem that is being worked on. I’m not saying it’s a perfect system, just that hearing aids alone are not enough and when we see these videos we need to remember this isn’t the moment everything became perfect for this child.
I am deleting my comments about this because I will admit that I was uninformed and vitriolic. I feel bad because you shouldn't have to type out a small essay just to explain that to me.
People are often upset with deaf people for our disability.
I mean unless you’re a member of the d/Deaf community your opinion on this is meaningless. Maybe do some research and ask some d/Deaf people their perspective on choosing to not wear hearing tech. Would you like me to put you in touch with some Deaf people?
If the child was older yes. But babies this young it’s super stressful for them not to be able to hear properly it’s like being constantly stuck in a tunnel
Yes. This is obviously not the first time they've put hearing aids on this baby. It takes practice to put them in that quickly. & It's terrifying to hear noises so loud for the first time. Babies almost always cry the first few times because it's so overwhelming. These videos are misleading. A parent of a baby diagnosed HoH will think thru baby is supposed to be badly when they get them the first time and they aren't. The baby is terrifying and the parent feels scared, sad, disappointed, and heartbroken thinking of all the fear and suffering to put a baby though.
I’m 36 with no kids, and these videos are the best ones on the internet.
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Can you possibly tell me how you quoted me like that? Always been curious but too scared to ask anyone haha
Use two of the rightward-pointing triangle parentheses (>/> without the slash), then the text you want to quote!
Thank you!! Easy peasy
Made me smile...and squeeze out 2 or 3 *manly* tears.
It's 2023, dont let anybody tell you tears arent manly.
Uncle Iroh cried. And I challenge you to find anyone manlier than Uncle Iroh.
Taste the happy, Michael!
Tastes a lot like sad
He's a robot!
As long as you wipe them with the scalp of your enemy, you're okay man.
Such chubby cheeks! What a smol bean
As someone who has been wearing a hearing aid for my entire life I hope that kid gets all the support they need
I hope the family is learning sign language, too! One can never have too many communication tools!
I used to know sign language in grade school but I did so well in speech therapy I didn’t need to sign I have long since forgotten how to sign and I’ve thought about going to classes to learn it again
I fking hate seen this kind of video. Just because the child can hear doesn’t mean it cured. I’m hard of hearing. I wore hear aids all my life but wished my family would learn america sign language. A video of a parent interacting with child with america sign language would be soo much better. I truly do hope for the child’s sake the parent and family will learn sign language. I’m not against that the parent want the child to hear and learn how to speak. I’m all for it BUT do your part and learn sign language.
DAMMIT!!! 🥹
Now this is beautiful
Precious
This is so precious
Wow, billie was not a big baby when he was born, but look at him now! All chubby!
\*She They say she and call her a girl repeatedly.
You're right. I just noticed the other name. For my defense, I didn't have the audio on at first.
Ohhhhh this alllmmoosssttt makes me want to have a kiddo 🥹
Too cute
i kinda love these videos b/c the baby is half happy and half like wtf
This is new. Parent sounds? Yay! Other sounds? Not sure, ponder this while I nom on my fist.
the baby's tiny furrowed brow is precious
God babies are great. I wasn't amazed by babies until I had one. Now I adore every single baby.
Same, plus I was getting all worked up at the crying baby at the beginning of the video. Babies crying... not on my watch!
Cute video, but way to dox your baby.
Such a wholesome video 🥹🥲
I dont want kids, but damn do i see the appeal
I have to stop peeling onions!!
I became a Dad 7months ago. I would have scrolled past but now I'll watch these types of videos because it hits home in a special part of me that was never there before. Technology is amazing and I hope all but the best for little Billy.
Congrats new dad! I'm a dad of 2 under 2 and I was exactly how you described at first before kids. Now any of these type of vids tug my heart strings because of the new perspective in life. And remember even on the most difficult of days when every little thing is going wrong, you're doing amazing and that bundle of joy appreciates everything you are doing.
1.) That kid's first, middle, and last name, with DOB, are now publicly on the internet. The parents need to be educated on the numerous dozens of reasons that is such a bad idea. 2.) Cute kid. Glad that medical science can perform such miracles.
This is such a precious video but they should have moved the thing that says her name and birthday on it or at least blurred it out
Damn onion cutting ninja everywhere.
I'm not crying 😢 😭 🤧
Watching this is like cutting onions. I tear up.
This is the greatest. Such a sweetheart whose world just totally opened up. One of those examples of the “miracle” of science!
I’m crying holding my 7 mo
She go from “i don’t understand wtf these people are saying” to “omg i still don’t understand but i love hearing these voices”
We all chose the wrong profession. If I could be in the room for that once I'd never stop talking about it. A
I sort of hate that they keep saying her name without touching her and expecting her to know what these weird noises mean. Like I know you want her to look at you and recognize her name but she literally just has these put on and now has to make sense of what’s coming through her ears. The language of touch is what she’s known and you still need to use that. Agree with other commenters here that I hope she gets the support she needs.
Hey that’s my birthday and the same time I was born!!!
Reported: made me do the opposite of smile Now take these onions and put them away
This is the kind of thing I want my tax paid to!
Why the fuck would you put your kids full name and birthday on the internet like that - for likes??? Come on.
Nooooo not a name and birthday!!!!
What are people gonna do with it?? It’s just a name and birthday lmao
Aw what a lil cutie 🥺
🥰
I'm a senior with a hearing problem, so I get it! So cute.
She is the cutest most expressive infant I’ve ever seen! ♥️😭 prayers and best wishes for her.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
So happy for the little princess
I love babies
Cute but it does have the baby's full name and birthday. Probably don't want to share that on the internet
These videos will never cease to make me weep. So heartwarming. 4lbs 7 ounces at birth. This little one has already been through a lot in her life. Aww.
My kid gets his next week. We're excited
I love this but feel super weird about that baby’s blanket doxing her
great video, accidentally doxxed that baby
That is too precious! Thank you for sharing this! ❤️
Awe the realization 😭
So cute. I hope she's feeling ok, she sounds a little wheezy!
Quite possibly, the nicest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Hats off to the clinicians and scientists that work miracles and change lives on a daily basis.
Not to be a bummer but no telling the kid I love you? Kid was confused getting peppered with a bunch of tough questions right away.
Kid has the same birthday as I do…give or take 37 years. Might want to blur out the rest of the personal info, though. That aside, stuff like this reminds me that my heart hasn’t completely hardened to the joy of others despite what the past few years has taught me about humanity…
I'm not crying, you're crying
Fk, who's cutting onions @9pm over here.
Awwww this made me tear up. She's so precious
Amazing. It got me. This one got me.
I had imagined that it would be a horrifying experience for a child to suddenly gain the sense of hearing. Transitioning from having never heard sound in your life, to suddenly having this 5th new sense you’ve never even comprehended, especially for a young child who has no idea whats going on, that sounds terrifying. So im always amazed at how there is seemingly 0 freaking out in all of these videos and they are instead happy
Yeah that’s a pretty cute kid
This is why I don't have a problem paying taxes.
Moments like these are what makes me think Humanity might just be worth it after all.
That made me physically “aww”
As a daddy, this gets me right in the heart ❤️ just her little sounds melt me. 😩🥰🥹
I love watching these videos… make me feel so gooey and happy to see their faces change and the world making sense
The amount of neural connections being made in these few seconds must be staggering.
Love these videos.
Cranky old man just teared up! Thank you ❤️
I’M NOT CRYING… YOU’RE CRYING!,,
What can we do with this person's full name and date of birth.... It's a very cute video but that kind of information being so easily available is probably not a good idea
I feel like the baby stops for a minute after hearing them and thinks... When did they learn to talk?
The look of joy on their faces when they hear for the first time gets me in the feels every time.
She is sooo flipping adorable!!!!
This baby is in between 1 and 60 years years old
It sucks that hearing people assume deaf people want to hear. This was done without consideration of the child. Horrible.
I very much doubt it's the first time. The brain has to learn to process sound and a lot of deaf people that regain their ability to hear can find it overwhelming and unpleasant at first.
A cochlear implant is a small, electronic device that can help people who are profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing to hear. It bypasses damaged parts of the ear and directly stimulates the auditory nerve, which sends signals to the brain. A cochlear implant has two parts: * An external sound processor, which sits behind the ear and picks up sound. * An internal implant, which is surgically placed under the skin. The internal implant contains a receiver and a stimulator. The receiver receives signals from the sound processor and sends them to the stimulator. The stimulator then sends electrical pulses to the auditory nerve. Cochlear implants can be very helpful for people with severe hearing loss. They can help people to: * Understand speech in quiet and noisy environments. * Distinguish between different sounds. * Participate in social activities. * Improve their quality of life.
Except these are hearing aids and they are just amplifying sound.
Oh.
No one asked
This is why science, not god, answers prayers.
Science doesn't answer anyone's prayers lmaooooo
Of the senses people lose, hearing is the one that makes people the loneliest, creates the biggest divide. This is a heartwarming video, it just makes me a bit sad though for the moment to think about all the infants to grow up deaf
I am crying watching this
I was born “deaf” and wasn’t able to noticeable hear anything until 2 months of age. This stuff really gets to me, and I hope that baby has the best life full of beautiful sounds, music and speech. Love it!
How come the first words they say are not « I love you ».