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# Watch a 7-Week-Old Baby Hear Mom's Voice For The First Time After Getting Hearing Aids

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## 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/)

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