I am a preschool teacher who has worked in the childcare filed for over 15 years and this year was very different for me. This year a little baby girl named Gianna, she came to me as a 5 month old baby, (4 weeks premature) who is blind and deaf. This story has touched my heart in so many ways and the moment I meet (mom) Jamie, we instantly clicked on the subject of having children who were both born deaf. (My son who is 8 now was Born deaf) So Jamie was completely comfortable enrolling her daughter at the preschool I worked at, and that I have 2 years of ASL. I was nervous at first to be honest, " how am I to bond with a new baby in my room if she can't see me or hear me" Gianna and I seemed to understand eachother and I understood her cries. I then started to feel more comfortable with her and was happy to see her daily. As over a month went on, I asked her mom, did you know she was blind before she was born. She said, in her own words " Nope, I had no idea throughout my entire pregnancy. Had a bunch of ultrasounds because I was a high-risk pregnancy since I was 35 years old and no ultrasound ever told me anything. Not sure if it was on the ultrasound and they just didn't say anything or if I actually did not show on the ultrasound. The day she was born I kept asking why she would not open her eyes and they said they were just swollen because of her having to be vacuumed out of me since she was stuck. They kept telling me and my husband we were crazy because we kept asking why she would not open her eyes and kept requesting to see the pediatrician. We asked to see the pediatrician five times and they kept saying that he was not coming. It was not until the next morning when the pediatrician finally came to my room and immediately took her to the NICU. About an hour later, the NICU dr came in and told us she did not have any eyes. A week later and then they came back saying that she had both eyeballs but that they were both under developed,She was in the NICU for 30 days. They did an MRI and came back saying that she had only one eye but it was under developed. To tell you my reason of why I wanted to make sure the world knew Gianna and Jamie's story was that Jamie (mom) had gastric bypass surgery in the past and told her OBGYN the history of her background and all the vitamins she was taking. She explained to her dr, Vitamin A, D and so on. Since having the surgery your body doesn't absorb foods of vitamins like you should as a normal pregnant woman would. Her OB told her to stop taking them, and said, all she needed was a prenatal vitamin and that will do the trick. The baby will take what she needs and leave mom the rest. No, that is not how it works. If you are already vitamin deficiency because of a gastric bypass surgery, mon will absorb all the vitamins, leaving the baby with nothing. This is why baby Gianna has underdeveloped eyes and can not open them.