Watch this 1-year-old baby hear for the first time

Thursday, June 21, 2018
FORT WORTH, Texas (KGO) -- A wedding, your child being born, college graduation -- you'll probably never forgot those major life moments. And you can bet this mom will never forget the moment her baby girl heard the world around her for the first time.

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Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, posted a video to Facebook of the heartwarming moment right after 1-year-old Ayla had her cochlear implant turned on. The shocked little girl cups her ear with excitement and her mom breaks down in tears.
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Cook Children's launched its cochlear implant program in 2006.
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The Esler family traveled five hours from Amarillo to get the surgery.
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