Unusual Baby Stories

A Rare Condition Causes Baby To Be Born Without Eyes

In a world where most people take the miracle of life, birth, sight and sound for granted, there happen incidences once in a while that make us look at these blessings from a different viewpoint. And the birth of Brielle Garrison is just one of them.

Baby in Florida Born Without Eyes

Born in Wellington, Florida to Taylor Garrison, 15, Brielle seems like all other newborns her age, except that she does not have any eyes. The baby girl suffers from a rare condition called Anophthalmia which according to Dr. Lee Friedman, of the Microsurgical Institute is a condition where you have no ocular tissue at all, nothing in the eyes.

Dr. Friedman, who is experiencing such kind of a case for first the time in 22 years, adds that the cause of this condition is unknown. “It’s a sporadic mutation. It is not hereditary.”

Baby in Florida Born Without Eyes

For the Garrison family, it is time to not just cope with the tragic news but also consults innumerable doctors, surgeons, and specialist who can make sure that the condition does not deform baby Brielle’s face.

“For a baby to be born with no eyes is just so cruel, and because my daughter’s 15, it was just mind-boggling that such a thing could happen,” said Lori Garrison, Brielle’s grandmother.

It is known that Anophthalmia can occur in around 1 in 100,000 births and research into its causes is still going on. The family is hoping that more and more people become aware of it so that more research and feasible solutions are discovered.

Meanwhile, new mom Taylor seems prepared to shower all her motherly love to her special child. “I’m going to treat her like she was born just as any other baby, because that’s how she is, that’s how I see her.” She says.

A fund for Brielle has been set up at a Wachovia Bank in Wellington.

Atula, Staff Writer


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Atula

Atula is a writer, traveler, and a nature-lover. She is also mom to a boy who seems to have inherited all her creative genes. When Atula is not busy making up stories with her son, she writes for numerous magazines, websites, and blogs. She is also working on her site on endangered species called indiasendangered.com.

5 Comments

  • God Bless baby and family. This story really touched me. I am checking into this to see if there is some type of fundraising or something that can be done to help prevent this in the future.

  • My son Diego was also born with no eyes Feb14,09 in Aurora IL and has been going to see an Ocularist to change his conformers. It was a difficult time for us to deal with this because we never heard of babies being born with no eyes and for Dr.’s had not seen such a case.

    There is a website that is called MAPS where we found other children born also with no eyes where we finally found good source of information.

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