27 December 2011
Last updated at 09:07 ET
The operations meant Eva could see her first Christmas tree and presents
A blind baby has become the youngest patient in the UK to have a corneal transplant, her doctors have said.
Four-month-old Eva Joyce, from Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, was born with Peter’s anomaly, a condition which makes the cornea cloudy.
Donor corneas were grafted on to Eva’s eyes during two operations at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
It said Eva was the UK’s youngest corneal transplant patient. Her family said they felt “incredibly lucky”.
The first operation took place when Eva was just two-and-a-half weeks old.
Her mother Harriet, 33, said: “When Eva was born and eventually opened her eyes, we realised that her corneas were cloudy.
“We weren’t overly concerned, and it wasn’t until we were referred to a hospital in Sheffield the following week and Eva’s eyes were tested that we realised that she had no vision at all. She was blind.
“We were devastated. For the next 24 hours of her life, we thought
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