A Sign We Missed

M was born with a cataract in her right eye and we didn't notice it was there until she was 9 months old.  Looking back we can now see it in almost all of her pictures.  Her right pupil is cloudy, and definitely not as black as her left pupil.  Her right eye hadn't 'gone lazy' yet and there seemed to be no 'jump-out-at-you' signs.

The above picture was taken when she was just about 3 weeks old.  You can see the cloudly white part in the right eye.  The left eye is all black and the right eye is not.

This second picture was taken just before she turned 2 months old.  You can see the white circle that is in her right eye pupil.  Don't you love her hair?!  It was wild since birth - very dark and just stood straight up no matter what you tried!

At the time  we weren't looking at her eyes specifically and just didn't notice that they were different.  Now looking through all of our pictures it's all that we can see.  I rationalize to myself and think that if I had noticed I would have thought that they were just different flashes from the camera, or reflections of light from the flash.  Unfortunately, they weren't...  Also, looking at the pictures gives a clearer image of the cataracts because of the light reflections perhaps.  When you were looking at her in person they didn't look the same as in the pictures.