We’ll show who treats it and what it costs.
12 Orynbor St. Look for the blue façade with the eye sign.
You have the prescription, but which glasses to choose?
Glasses your child chose themselves: they don’t pinch, don’t get broken and don’t get hidden away. A BABY EYE CLINIC children’s doctor writes the prescription, and your child picks the frame at the RB OPTICS store. Build glasses for your child — and take a checklist to the fitting.
What your child is like in glasses
Prescription
Flexible plastic or light metal with spring hinges. Covers the eyes fully and is no wider than the face.
Light plastic, not glass: they don’t shatter if dropped.
Arms the right length: no pressure behind the ears, and the glasses don’t slide down the nose. For PE, a removable strap.
Scratch-resistant: children’s glasses often end up lying lens-down. Plus anti-reflective: less glare from the board, lamps and screens.
This is a checklist for talking to the doctor and the optician. The final decision is the doctor’s, based on the prescription.
Glasses fitting10,000 ₸per fitting
From the doctor’s prescription to the clinic’s optician
A children’s doctor writes the prescription, and the glasses are made up from it at the RB CLINIC optician — no guessing whether another shop read the numbers right. Your child is seen at BABY EYE CLINIC, 2A Syganak St. With the prescription, you go to RB OPTICS at 12 Orynbor St, and your child tries on frames while the questions are still fresh. It’s like buying shoes with your child there: you try them on the foot, not by a size you remember.
Come here with your BABY EYE doctor’s prescription
So they wear them and don’t break them
Uncomfortable glasses get broken and “lost”. If the frame pinches behind the ears or slides down the nose, the child takes it off at the first chance — and the glasses end up on the desk, in a pocket, underfoot. Here are the six rules for checking a child’s frame at the fitting.
Among the frames that fit, the final say is theirs: colour, shape. Glasses they like get worn, not “forgotten” at home.
Your child shouldn’t look over or around the lenses. The frame is no wider than the face: the arms go straight back rather than splaying out.
A child’s nose bridge isn’t fully formed yet, so the frame needs special nose pads or a low, wide bridge. Otherwise the glasses slip down and the child looks over them.
Flexible plastic like TR-90 springs back into shape after a fall, and spring hinges hold up when glasses are pulled off with one hand. The material is hypoallergenic and light.
The arms hold the glasses on without pressing on the temples or behind the ears. For little ones, a soft strap instead of arms; for clubs, a retainer strap.
Even a small shift reduces how much the glasses help. That’s why the prescription includes the distance between the pupils, and finished glasses are worth showing to the doctor.
For toddlers and preschoolers, plastic. Good flexible plastic is light, strong, comes in any colour and survives falls. Schoolchildren and teenagers who are careful with their things can also wear light metal made of titanium alloys.
Plastic, not glass. Children get light, impact-resistant lenses with scratch protection. Anti-reflective coating is for schoolchildren who read a lot and spend time at screens. For a high minus, thinned lenses keep the glasses lighter.
Tantrums, or the glasses?
“Won’t wear them” often means “the glasses bother me”. A child won’t say “the arm is pinching” or “the numbers are wrong” — they just take the glasses off. Here’s what you can notice from the outside.
Recognise even one of these? Take the glasses and the prescription and show the doctor. They’ll check the lens power, the fit of the frame, and whether vision has changed since last time. A child’s eye grows, and last year’s prescription may no longer be right.
For sport, and for those tired of frames
Lenses aren’t “smaller glasses”; they’re a responsibility. They must be put in with clean hands, taken out and replaced on time. That’s why the clinic fits contact lenses for older children who can manage on their own, and teaches them first.
Laser vision correction is done from age 18. Until then the eye is growing and the numbers change, so children get glasses or lenses and a check-up once a year. Myopia in children
Prices from the clinic’s price list
Glasses fitting: 10,000 ₸ per fitting. You pay for the frame and lenses separately at the optician once your child has chosen. A check-up at BABY EYE is a separate visit: whether you need it and what it costs, the administrator will tell you on WhatsApp based on your child’s age and prescription.
Glasses fitting
Lenses your child sees clearly through without tiring
Your child’s check-up at BABY EYE CLINIC
A children’s doctor checks the vision of each eye and writes a prescription for glasses. 2A Syganak St
What’s bothering you, what glasses your child had before, what they do: school, clubs, screens. The checklist from the website comes in handy here.
Your child looks at a picture in a little window, and the device measures minus, plus and astigmatism by itself.
A child’s eye can hide the real number. Drops relieve the strain, so the prescription comes out accurate.
The doctor switches lenses and your child says which is clearer. That’s how the device’s number is checked on the child.
Prescription in hand, an explanation of how to wear the glasses, and RB OPTICS at 12 Orynbor St.
What your child will see
Show your child these photos at home: the unfamiliar is less scary once you’ve seen it. The BABY EYE room where the doctor will see your child, the clinic’s equipment and the RB OPTICS displays where they’ll choose a frame. Drag the strip or tap a photo.
A doctor explains
Begaidarova Aliya Kairgeldinovna · paediatric ophthalmologist, BABY EYE CLINIC
“Vision used to get worse at 13–14, in the teenage years. Now, unfortunately, myopia progresses even before school age.”
“In this case the child must be seen twice a year without fail.”
The doctor’s words from the video, translated word for word. Tap the video to listen with sound.
BABY EYE CLINIC children’s doctor
A prescription for children’s glasses is written by an ophthalmologist, not by an optical shop assistant reading a machine. The device gives a number; the BABY EYE children’s doctor checks it on the child and decides how the glasses should be worn. If there’s more behind the complaint than vision, the doctor will see it.
Paediatric ophthalmologist, BABY EYE CLINIC
Parents mention her by name in their reviews. She sees children at 2A Syganak St and writes the prescription you’ll take to RB OPTICS.
Glasses aren’t always the whole story. If your child has a squint, one eye sees worse even with glasses, or the minus grows every year, start with a paediatric ophthalmologist.
Backed by RB CLINIC
Most children only need glasses, lenses, training on devices or simply monitoring. The doctor will suggest surgery only when it is medically needed — for strabismus, ptosis or blocked tear ducts. Then RB CLINIC surgeons perform it: BABY EYE CLINIC is the children’s branch of RB CLINIC, a leading eye microsurgery centre in Astana.
When medically needed:
Bigeldiyev Rishat Kalilullaevich
Founder of RB CLINIC, Academician. If a child needs strabismus surgery, he performs it himself
About Dr. Bigeldiyev
Book on WhatsApp
Tell us your child’s age and whether you have a prescription, and the administrator will find a time and a doctor. If you built glasses at the top of the page, the checklist will already be in the message. Appointments — at BABY EYE CLINIC, 2A Syganak St, Mon–Sat 11:00–18:00, by appointment.
Glasses fitting: 10,000 ₸ per fitting.
Call BABY EYE: +7 771 833 00 03 · Mon–Sat 11:00–18:00
Surgery questions — RB CLINIC: +7 771 848 00 00
Questions
For younger children, a frame of good flexible plastic: light, strong, any colour. Materials such as TR-90 spring back into shape after a fall and survive active play. A child’s nose bridge isn’t formed yet, so the frame needs children’s nose pads. Schoolchildren and teenagers can also wear light metal made of titanium alloys. Most importantly, your child should like the frame: then they’ll wear it.
Watch for discomfort: your child often adjusts or takes off the glasses, complains of headaches or pain in the nose bridge and temples, their eyes get red and watery, and they tire quickly from books and TV. Behaviour is a warning sign too: squinting or tilting the head even with glasses on, holding books too close or too far away, tripping, not wanting to wear the glasses. Show the glasses to the doctor: they’ll check both the lens power and the fit of the frame.
First a prescription from an ophthalmologist, then a frame to suit the face. The frame covers the eyes fully, is no wider than the face, sits on children’s nose pads, and the arms hold the glasses without pressing on the temples. The material is hypoallergenic, light and flexible. The centre of each lens should sit in front of the pupil: even a small shift reduces how much the glasses help. Let your child walk around in the chosen frame, and show the finished glasses to the doctor.
A glasses fitting at RB CLINIC costs 10,000 ₸ per fitting. What’s included, and whether your child needs a check-up with a BABY EYE doctor, the administrator will tell you when you book. You pay for the frame and lenses separately at the RB OPTICS store at 12 Orynbor St: the price is given in store based on your prescription and the chosen frame.
A child’s eye can adjust its own focus and hide the real minus or plus. Drops relieve that strain: the prescription comes out accurate and the glasses don’t have to be redone. For a while after the drops everything is blurry and light is dazzling, so bring sunglasses for your child.
It’s not the age in the passport that decides, it’s readiness: can your child put in and take out lenses, wash their hands and stick to the routine? At the clinic, lenses are fitted for older children, who are taught lens care first. Whether it’s right for your child, the doctor will say after the check-up.
It depends on the prescription. Some children need glasses all day, others only for distance or only for reading. The doctor will tell you at the fitting and write it in the prescription. Don’t decide on your own to “let the eyes train without glasses”: a growing eye needs a clear image.
A child’s eye grows, and the numbers can change. See the doctor once a year, or sooner if your child starts squinting in their glasses again. Children outgrow frames too: if the arms pinch and the frame has become narrower than the face, it’s time to choose a new one.
Children’s check-ups: BABY EYE CLINIC, 2A Syganak St, Astana · RB OPTICS store and surgery when medically needed: RB CLINIC, 12 Orynbor St · BABY EYE: +7 771 833 00 03 · RB CLINIC: +7 771 848 00 00 · All reviews
