• March 28, 2024

[PHOTOS] Adorable Baby With Rare Eye Condition Beams With Delight After Seeing For The First Time

This is the tear-jerking moment a four-month-old baby smiled in delight after seeing his mother clearly for the first time in his life.

Leopold Wilbur Reppond, known as Leo, suffers from a rare disorder called oculocutaneous albinism.

The condition affects the color of a person’s hair, skin and eyes and means that the youngster is unable to see properly. Leo’s film producer father David, 39, said ‘cuteness went through the roof’ when his son smiled for the first time, adding that there ‘wasn’t a dry eye in the house’.

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Baby Leopold suffers with a rare disorder called oculocutaneous albinism, which affects his eyesight

‘I had some issues holding the camera because I was crying so much,’ Mr Leopold said.

‘I was overwhelmed with emotion. It’s just very touching. You cannot anticipate how you’re going to feel when something like that happens. It was very heartwarming. ‘Leo looked at my wife for the first time and saw her for the first time.’ Mr. Leopold and his wife Erin, 35, live in Seattle, Washington, having recently moved back there to be close to their families.

Leo was born with Oculocutaneous Albinism (OCA), which affects one in 20,000 children and affects the colour of their skin, hair and eyes and leaves them with extremely bad vision. The Repponds sought treatment from Los Angeles-based pediatric ophthalmologist Kenneth Wright and got special infant glasses from Miraflex, a US glasses company.

The glasses Leo wears have normal lenses but are made of a rubber-like material which has no screws, no hinges and no sharp edges. Mr. Reppond said that he and his wife, who works in a microbrewery, recently invited their families round for a small gathering at which they put Leo’s glasses on for the first time.

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There you are! The young baby makes eye-contact with his mother and immediately reacts by smiling

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