BABY BORN WITHOUT EYES

[premium_shaday]

Guys, I love you, and it's a fascinating subject, but please try to remember that this is supposed to be a mostly scientific and objective forum. Of course we poke fun at everything (ex: this baby, rare diseases, other awful things that aren't that funny irl), but this is also not a political forum. This post is about a specific case of a

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[king]

eye nubs
oh god

[owlsie]

the eye tubes look like plastic. maybe the doctors put them there for drainage or something? i don't know, but anophthalmia doesn't typically come with eye tubes as far as i know

[premium_shaday]

From Wikipedia:
"Secondary anophthalmia the eye starts to develop and for some reason stops, leaving the infant with only residual eye tissue or extremely small eyes which can only be seen under close examination."

I would say the snail eyes are just residual tissue.

But you do have a point, they could be drainage tubes. The video quality is TOO LOW to be able to really know for actuals... I'm looking in to it.

[lorienellen]

This. They looked like something the doctor put in there.

[kohda]

Little eye nubs!! *_*

[megkillssugar]

Win comment!

[skittlewolf]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

*screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

[oddityangel]

Well...that's something I've never heard of.

She's a cute little gal, and the mother seems to have a pretty positive outlook.

[happycycling]

ditto O_O

[arctowardthesun]

SAME HERE