Blind people cannot see with their eyes, but those without sight depend on their other senses like touch, smell, taste, and sound to ‘see’. In order to see someone’s face, many blind people rely on their sense of touch to get a sense of someone’s facial features.
In the video, 30-year-old Tatiana, who lost her sight at 17, is 20-weeks pregnant, and explains that she can’t wait until her son is born so that she can finally ‘see’ him by holding him, and feeling his little face.
However, her doctor has other plans, and figures out a genius was to allow Tatiana to ‘see’ her son before he’s born.
Tatiana’s doctor asks her what she images her son looks like, she says “I imagine him… well… his nose like a little potato. A small mouth… like that… a chubby little hand.”
Even with her imagination, Tatiana knows she won’t actually be able to ‘see’ her baby until he is born. However, this clever doctor used a 3D printer to make a relief of the baby’s sonogram picture, which allowed Tatiana to feel all his features
Watch the entire video below to see the moment this new mom got to see her baby for the first time.
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