Breanna spent her entire life reading her mother's lips. The 14-year-old was born hard of hearing, but as she got older the muffled sounds became fainter and fainter.
Eventually, the hearing aids she received as a toddler no longer allowed her to hear speech. Breanna hadn't heard her mother's voice clearly in over a decade. Then the amazing moment came when she was able to have a cochlear implant installed.
Thankfully, her mother Melissa had the camera out for this emotional moment. When the technician turns the cochlear implant on, Breanna is startled by the woman's voice.
"Can you hear my voice?" Melissa asks her daughter. Breanna answers yes, and breaks into a fit of laughter. As her mother speaks more, she is completely reduced to tears.
Hearing our mother's voice in the womb is the most comforting sound. When we're born and as infants we look to that voice for safety and security. To have that sound slowly taken away from you as a child — that has to be traumatic.
Breanna's reaction to her mother's voice is a testament of that unique bond. The implant was fitted at the Center for Hearing and Speech in Houston.
"Breanna's been coming to the center since she was a baby. Over time it was getting harder and harder for her to understand what people were saying," said a spokesperson from the Center for Hearing. "When she heard her mom's voice — it wasn't muffled, and the clarity… It was very emotional."
See the emotional moment between mother and daughter below and please SHARE if you'll never take your hearing for granted again after this!