Is this based on medical fact or just a hypothesis?  My first child was
born at 26 weeks, eyes were patched and then later patched again in an
attempt to correct lazy eye.  He suffers from "cortical" blindness with
no apparent explanation.  And the odd thing is that it varies from day to
day and on his physical condition.  I would be very interested in further
investigations of this idea.
JP

<The reason he started all this research was to try to create a
more appropriate nursery environment for preemies and to have an
understanding of
why some preemies would be blind even though there were no physical
reasons
apparent.  Part of his presentation also explained that by patching
babies eyes
the neurons that controlled that part of the brain were not connecting
and
therefore the blindness was not due to the eyes themselves, but the lack
of
neuron connection.  In an attempt to correct this, NICU's had stopped
patching
eyes and started draping the isolettes and keeping the rooms darker
instead.>

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