(enlarge the photo & you'll see what I'm talking about.)
His left eye is mostly a lighter grayish/hazel with the upper right quarter being brown. His right eye is mostly brown, but the *very* outer upper&lower rim is that same gray/hazel color, not seen here, but a little evident in the last of the pics below.
When I mentioned to the pediatrician that I thought Austin had different colored eyes, he said (without a glance at me or baby), "well, you would know, since you're the one who sees him every day." When I picked up my jaw off the floor, I asked, "well. is this something I should be concerned about?" And his answer was... (brace yourselves)... "there's a really pretty actress who has that, who was it? oh, yah, Kate Bosworth."
...that's it.
Are you kidding me!?!
Okay, M.D.
Thanks for a whole lotta nada!
I have high expectations, and possibly slightly higher for him, since he's a world renowned pediatrician and all, but this response was unacceptable for any pediatrician, period. I'd rather hear an, "I don't know," which, by the way, I did hear more than once. "I don't know" is good, it's honest, it's human. But empty promises to find out or to "think about it" are just plain unhelpful & non-reassuring!
I am not concerned about what it "looks" like. I want to know if HE is okay. You know? There is a handful of syndromes that include this as one of the characteristics, and although for the last 4 months I've been assuming that it's just a little genetic fluke (which is possible)-- Today I've, once again, allowed a little maternal worry in. I want to KNOW he's okay.
So despite all the reassurance I've given myself, and the doctors lackadaisical attitude about it. Despite the absence of anything that would cause me to believe that he's anything other than perfectly normal. I'm here thinking about & researching it again, and this time I ran across a website that actually says that the baby *should* be tested by an opthamologist and pediatrician, and possibly by a geneticist. Hmph! Kate Bosworth...
To be fair, even though I was thoroughly disappointed by many aspects of our office visit, his brother majorly redeemed their practice at our subsequent visit, & he's the one I'll be seeing from here on out. I've been debating whether or not to post this, because I don't want to berate anybody. Thus, no names are mentioned. And if you guess, well, I'm not really that concerned. I'm mostly shocked by the bedside care we received!
P.S. Here's a picture of Austin in normal lighting. You really have to look, and in pretty direct or bright lighting, in order to see the discolorations.
This is the *first* time I've gotten a picture of the actual details in the last 5 months, if that tells you anything. I can't even answer the question I know they're going to ask me... was this present at birth? I truly have no idea! I didn't even notice it until my niece was holding him around Christmas-time, and she said "Woah, his eyes are so strange!" I didn't think anything of it, until the next day when I looked and went, "WOAH!" Some mom I am! Wasn't I gazing into his eyes and admiring his every feature in those first two months?
