Free eye exam for your baby

Most new parents aren't thinking about eye exams for their little one but visual development is most dramatic between 6 and 12 months of age. The American Optometrist Association recommends that your baby have a vision assessment between 6 and 12 months of age. An assessment at this age can determine if your baby is at risk for eye or vision disorders. Baby vision statistics:

• One in ten children are at risk from undiagnosed vision problems.
• Vision problems are far more easily corrected when caught early.
• Approximately 7% of children will develop vision problems. 7% may not sound like much but that amounts to more than 100,000 babies in the US alone each year at risk for various vision and eye problems.
• Research reports that just 13% of mothers with children under the age of two have taken their baby for a vision assessment.

Some of our health care plans don't cover vision. If you're in this situation, your baby can get a free vision exam from an InfantSEE provider. InfantSEE is a health program that was designed to make sure that all babies can receive vision care from a nearby provider. To see if it really was as easy as they say, I did a search. I entered my zip code and 160 nearby providers appeared. So make the healthy decision to protect your baby's vision and visit InfantSEE to learn more.