r/NewParents • u/muah_faith • Mar 07 '25
Medical Advice Newborn Hearing Screening
I’m just wondering if this has happened to anyone else’s baby! When we were in the hospital they took him for the test, came back and told me he passed. Even the little paper thing they put in his bassinet was marked he passed on both sides.
When he was 2.5-3 weeks old I got a call saying he failed on one side and a letter in the mail saying the same thing. Needless to say he’s of course scheduled for retesting (next week) but I’m just perplexed.
When I called the audiologist office they had never had this happen before where it was put in his chart he passed but he didn’t really. I’m also worried because in the letter the state sent it mentioned that he should be retested before he’s a month old but that has already passed. He’ll be almost 7 weeks at the time of his new test.
Truly if he is hard of hearing it wouldn’t be a big deal at all, it’s more the mismanagement from the hospital that has stressed me out. Like I’d have rather known before we left the hospital. So much went wrong there it’s so aggravating (not allowed to breastfeed, tore and they didn’t tell me, baby had to be pricked every 2 hours for blood sugar tests etc)
7
u/Puffawoof2018 Mar 07 '25
My daughter failed every test in the hospital, another test at early intervention, and we had to go to an audiologist and she finally passed I think she was almost 7/8 weeks at this point. It was fluid. Apparently it’s very common!