Watch the heartwarming moment a deaf three-month-old girl hears her mum’s voice for the first time after being given life-changing hearing aids
- Emelia Shadwell was deaf until she received hearing aids at three months old
- The touching moment was caught on film by her doting mother Nikki
- The baby smiles and chuckles as she hears her mother’s voice for the first time
Touching footage shows the moment a baby girl was given the gift of sound, after spending her first weeks unable to hear her own mother’s voice.
Nikki Shadwell captured a video of her three-month old daughter Emelia when she heard her for the first time after being given state-of-the-art hearing aids.
The toddler from Morayfield, in Queensland’s Morton Bay region was diagnosed as deaf at only seven weeks old.
Baby Emelia (pictured) has her hearing aids placed as her excited parents look forward to her hearing for the first time
Baby Emelia (pictured) beams with joy as she finally hears her mother’s voice for the first time
In her mother’s home video, Emelia beamed with joy seconds after the hearing aids were placed in her ears.
‘Hello, can you hear daddy?’ her father said.
To which her mum replied, ‘what was that? Hi!’.
‘Emelia, Emelia,’ she said as the baby chuckled and jiggled around on her dad’s lap.
The footage was captured on October 30 2014 when the bub was given hearing aids.
She is now six years old and has been attending the Nambour Hear and Say Centre since she was nine months old.
Emelia (pictured) is now six years old and has been attending the Nambour Hear and Say Centre since she was nine months old
The school provides a program for hearing impaired children, offering listening and spoken language therapy.
While the little girl has made serious improvements since she was born, Ms Shadwell said it wasn’t always smooth sailing.
‘You get handed this beautiful baby… and then you find out there’s something wrong,’ Ms Shadwell told Quest Newspapers.
‘You’re basically learning (to be a parent and) … all of a sudden you get thrown into a billion different appointments.’
She said watching her daughter hearing her voice was an incredibly emotional moment.
‘Probably the way I’d describe it is overwhelming,’ Ms Shadwell said.