Goopy eyes...be gone!

Ever since Aria and Siena were about a month old, they have each had one goopy eye.  Siena's right eye and Aria's left eye.  You can kind of see it in this picture of both of them.

Well the doctor kept saying it was a plugged tear duct and to massage it each day and eventually it will go away but could last up to a year.  So we didn't worry about it too much although it bugged a lot.  Aria's was worse and we were constantly wiping it.  It got so as soon as I would start to wipe it she would squirm and protest. 

Well we had to take Aria to the eye doctor when she was a couple months old because her eyes weren't tracking correctly.  They told us to come back when she was 6 months and to give it time and it would probably correct itself because she was so small and early when she was born.  So we just recently went back and everything is fine with her sight.  Shane took her to this appt. and mentioned that her plugged tear duct wasn't getting any better.  So they told him they could do a quick procedure to fix it.  So they did it. 

This procedure required them to strap her down, stick a catheter looking thing into a tube that had been poked into her tear duct, clean it out and then wash saline solution down it and out her nose.  Let's just say...Mom was VERY happy she didn't go to this appointment. Shane told me that she cried but not even that hard.  In fact the doctors were surprised how lightly she cried.  That's my mellow little Aria. But I still felt bad she had to go through that.  She's a tough cookie with all the poking doctors have done to her since she was born.

Since then her eye has been perfect.  I no longer have to wipe it a hundred times a day and I hadn't realized that her eye was swollen because of it and it looks so much better now.

Shane kept threatening to take Siena to get the procedure done but hers wasn't as bad so I wasn't that concerned.  Well low and behold, Siena must have realized what we were talking about because seriously within the next week hers completely cleared up too.  Maybe it was Twinspiration.  I now have 2 goopy-less little girls and both parents are so happy!