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Eye-gaze interaction is a relevant mean of communication from the early infancy. The bonding between infants and their care-takers is Strengthened through eye contact. Parents with visual impairments are excluded of this type of interaction with their children. Thus, nowadays computer vision technologies allow to track eye-gaze with different purposes, even users with visual impairments are enable to recognize faces. This work starts from the following research question: Can current available eye tracking solutions aid parents with visual impairments to have eye-gaze interaction with their young infants children?We devised a software prototype based on currently available eye tracking technologies which was tested with three sets of visually impaired parents and their young infant children to explore the possibility to assist those parents to have eye-gaze interaction with their children. The experience was documented as semi-structured interviews which were processed with a content analysis technique. The approach got positive feedback in the functionality and Emotional interaction aspects.