Video showing parents witness their baby hear for first time goes viral
Updated: 11:46 AM CDT Jul 1, 2018
A video posted on social media of Texas parents Anna and Will Esler, and their daughter Ayla, showing the baby hearing for the first time went viral in mid-June.According to an interview with Cook Children's Health Care System — a Fort Worth-based nonprofit organization that did Ayla's cochlear implant — the Eslers found out about Ayla's hearing loss after she failed her newborn screening twice."Being deaf isn't bad, it's just different, and so we had spent a lot of time preparing ourselves for what life would be like without Ayla hearing," the Eslers told Cook Children's. "We had to prepare ourselves to see her enjoy those things in a different way...When we found out that cochlear implants were an option for her, sound became a reality for her again, and we are so grateful for that."After her surgery, a now-viral video of Ayla hearing for the first time and her parents reacting to her excitement started to circulate on social media and has tugged at heartstrings everywhere.Though her parents had some doubts about how she would react to hearing for the first time, Anna Esler was overwhelmed by emotion while watching her 1-year-old experience sound for the first time."Even though I knew it would work, there was still some doubt in my mind," she said. "So when I saw her responding to sound, I was overwhelmed by thankfulness to God and to everyone else who has been a part of this journey."
FORT WORTH —
A video posted on social media of Texas parents Anna and Will Esler, and their daughter Ayla, showing the baby hearing for the first time went viral in mid-June.
According to an — a Fort Worth-based nonprofit organization that did Ayla's cochlear implant — the Eslers found out about Ayla's hearing loss after she failed her newborn screening twice.
"Being deaf isn't bad, it's just different, and so we had spent a lot of time preparing ourselves for what life would be like without Ayla hearing," the Eslers told Cook Children's. "We had to prepare ourselves to see her enjoy those things in a different way...When we found out that cochlear implants were an option for her, sound became a reality for her again, and we are so grateful for that."
, a now-viral video of Ayla hearing for the first time and her parents reacting to her excitement started to circulate on social media and has tugged at heartstrings everywhere.
Though her parents had some doubts about how she would react to hearing for the first time, Anna Esler was overwhelmed by emotion while watching her 1-year-old experience sound for the first time.
"Even though I knew it would work, there was still some doubt in my mind," she said. "So when I saw her responding to sound, I was overwhelmed by thankfulness to God and to everyone else who has been a part of this journey."
