--- title: Baby Sees Mom for First Time: Video description: Vision impaired baby with rare disorder sees mother for the first time thanks to a new pair of glasses. canonical: https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-08T19:32:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:29.312Z og:title: Watch a Vision-Impaired Baby See His Mom Clearly for the First Time og:description: Guaranteed to make you smile og:url: https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Vision-Impaired Baby See His Mom Clearly for the First Time twitter:description: Guaranteed to make you smile twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Vision-Impaired Baby See His Mom Clearly for the First Time  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 8, 2016 7:32 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 8, 2016 7:32 PM UTC A touching video captures the moment when a vision-impaired baby in Washington state sees his mother for the first time, thanks to a new pair of glasses. The child, Leopold, has been diagnosed with Oculocutaneous Albinism (OCA), a rare disease that causes vision problem and that affects the coloring of the skin, hair, and eyes, according to the [National Institutes of Health (NIH)](https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/oculocutaneous-albinism). “Today he received his glasses…and can now see the world clearly for the very first time,” the child’s father David Reppond wrote in a description of the 30-second video on YouTube. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/"},"headline":"Watch a Vision-Impaired Baby See His Mom Clearly for the First Time","datePublished":"2016-04-08T19:32:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:29.312Z","description":"Make sure a box of tissues is nearby","url":"https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4287174/baby-glasses-sees-mom-first-time/","name":"Watch a Vision-Impaired Baby See His Mom Clearly for the First Time"}}]}] ```