A cute video has emerged of a baby's reaction to hearing for the first.

The footage, shot on Monday in Chapel Hill, NC, USA, shows nine-month-old Dawson crying as his bilateral cochlear implants are turned on for the first time.

"Dawson's mother contracted CMV during her first trimester of pregnancy and this caused his hearing loss," she wrote online.

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