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When this deaf baby hears her mom say 'I love you' for the first time, she gets very emotional
A video of Charlotte Keane hearing her
mother’s voice for the first time has gone viral, amassing 263,000
shares and 14 million views on Facebook.
Her
mother, Christy, originally didn’t plan on making the video public, but
after relatives asked to share it on the social media platform, she
agreed. “I thought, ‘Oh, what’s the harm? I’ll make it public,” Keane
told Good Housekeeping in a phone interview. “And then, I think I woke up the next day with a thousand shares, and by Monday it had hit a million.”
Charlotte
was born with bilateral profound congenital hearing loss, which happens
in one of out every 1,000 to 2,000 births, according tothe American Hearing Research Foundation. Throughout Christy’s pregnancy, there was no warning that this would happen.
Doctors
originally diagnosed Charlotte’s hearing problems as fluid blockage.
“She has very profound hearing loss and is not and will not be cured,”
Christy says. “She will always be deaf and we cannot tell what degree of
hearing the aids are giving her, we just know she’s showing great and
positive responses.”
The
family is exploring the possibility of implants for Charlotte that
would effectively replace the damaged parts of her ears, as hearing aids
can only amplify sound.
A post shared by Christy Keane 🕊 (@theblushingbluebird) on
The
hearing aids Charlotte uses were provided by donors at no cost to the
Keanes. Despite their hardships, the family is moving forward and plans
to work with a speech therapist to help Charlotte learn how to talk.
They’re also considering sign language.
“I
had never in my life seen that face before,” Christy says of her
daughter in the video. “I’m her mother, and I know the look in her eyes
when she’s sad, upset or hurting, and that connection, and that moment
when our eyes met and she heard my voice for the first time, that was
true emotion from her.”
When this deaf baby hears her mom say 'I love you' for the first time, she gets very emotional
Reviewed by Emmanuel Donkor
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October 22, 2017
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