Heart-warming video alert!
Baby Lachlan was diagnosed with moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears at birth. Doctors decided that fitting a hearing aid in his first few months of life would be his best bet at having a chance to hear the world around him.
So at just seven weeks of age, the baby, from Victoria, Australia, had the procedure - and his parents caught the moment on camera. (canvas prints photo on canvas canvas prints online)
“When they turned the headphones on and Lachlan smiled and his face lit up, it was the most magical thing I’d ever seen in my life,” Lachlan’s mum, Michelle Lever, told Daily Mail Australia.
"I had never been more happy in my life."
"I thought Lachlan would not be able to talk, make friends and I was worried he would get teased. I now know that whilst those thoughts were completely normal, they are not true," she said.
The video shows little Lachlan start to cry as he's fitted with his hearing aid - but as the specialist finishes putting it in his ear, he stops crying and appears to listen carefully to the sounds around him for the first time ever.
Moments later he smiles towards the camera.
Throughout the video Lachlan continues to stare upwards with a confused look and smiles back at people including his mum and dad, Michelle and Toby Lever, as they talk to him.
Michelle said she was glad to share the video to give other families of hearing-impaired children hope.
“I am so happy that we can share our magic moment with the world,” she said. “I hope it can give some other families the realisation everything is going to be okay.”
Lachlan, who is now two years old (the video was taken in 2012), is doing well.
“He is the biggest chatterbox out there," Michelle said. "He's only two so there’s a lot of gibberish that you can't understand, but when he’s telling you something, he makes sure you understand."
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