Well, I'm pretty sure that 95% or so of parents with a deaf baby would jump in a heart beat if there is in fact a natural biomedical procedure that will restore completely a baby's hearing loss. And when that day comes, bye bye deaf babies for they are to become bonafide hearing babies just like all the others born with their hearing intact.
kokonut has some good points. If I ever have children, even as a deaf dad id love to give my baby the best chance to hear. Of course id get a such procedure done on me too. People today get CI to hear better. Why should I not hear better when I want to? Id get a CI myself if I had no or very little residual hearing. But I have too much residual hearing that theres a real risk ill hear worse with CI and because im likley to lose that residual hearing, there's no going back to HAs. That's why I am waiting for future technology. I am open to the idea of CI if they can ever make CI not destroy any residual hearing or if I end up losing all my residual hearing.
Me and my parents don't believe in CI for those getting benefits from HAs. The cost is $50,000+ and the surgery has real risks and there's no guarantee if youll even hear better than you do with HAs if you have residual hearing. CI is not a cure anyway, in fact youll become MORE deaf since youll lose your residual hearing. I see CI as a great option for those with no or very little residual hearing. Those people even with the most powerful HAs programmed for max gains can barely even tell if their HA is on or off. CI makes no sense for those with so much residual hearing that they can get to 25db or better aided.