--- title: Video: Baby Boy Hears for First Time with Hearing Aids description: A 7-week-old baby hears voices of parents for first time after getting hearing aids. canonical: https://time.com/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-03T17:51:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:56.225Z og:title: Watch a 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids og:description: A 7-week-old baby hears voices of parents for first time after getting hearing aids. og:url: https://time.com/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/ 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 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids twitter:description: A 7-week-old baby hears voices of parents for first time after getting hearing aids. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 3, 2014 5:51 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 3, 2014 5:51 PM UTC This [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUP02yTKWWo) reveals the emotional moment when a seven-week-old baby hears his parents’ voices for the first time after getting hearing aids. Diagnosed with moderate-to-severe hearing loss in both ears at birth, the little boy named Lachlan looks unhappy to have something shoved into his ear canal. But when his mother and father, Michelle and Toby Lever of Victoria, Australia, start talking to him, his eyes widen and a giant smile spreads across his face. While this YouTube video is dated August 31, 2014, the moment happened back in July 2012, and is just starting to go viral now. A [Facebook video](https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=211298602338080) that mom Michelle Lever posted on November 18, 2012, now boasts nearly 300,000 “likes” and has been shared 440,000 times. Lachlan, now two years old, has worked with therapists at [Taralye](https://www.facebook.com/TaralyePage/posts/816724258347828) “the oral language centre for deaf children,” in Blackburn Victoria. Michelle Lever told [Daily Mail Australia](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739909/The-incredible-moment-7-week-old-baby-hears-time-shares-smile-emotional-parents.html) that she hopes the video, by going viral, will reassure parents in similar situations: “I want them to realise that there is a lot of support and help available to them.” **WATCH:** [Boy Hears His Dad’s Voice for First Time](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/20/watch-boy-hears-his-dads-voice-for-first-time/) **MORE**: [Science Gave My Son the Gift of Sound](http://time.com/76154/deaf-culture-cochlear-implants/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/"},"headline":"Watch a 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids","datePublished":"2014-09-03T17:51:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:56.225Z","description":"The miracle of life meets the miracle of hearing","url":"https://time.com/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/","keywords":["Newsfeed","medicine","Babies","viral","Videos","Science topic","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/3264237/baby-hears-for-first-time-with-hearing-aid/","name":"Watch a 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids"}}]}] ```