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Exactly.
My progressive hearing loss was caused by premature birth, ototoxic drugs given to me while in the neonatal ICU, frequent ear infections as an infant, child and teenager, antibiotics given to me for ear infections and years of untreated allergies.
If I have a child, he or she will most likely end up having some degree of blindness as opposed to deafness since my hearing loss was not genetic in nature.
Your child won't be blind. Retinopathy of prematurity is not genetic.