15th March 2012

It's funny, yet also really quite sad, how fast you feel your life can change and your whole world can feel upside down in only a few minutes.

That's what happened to us....

Today was the same as any other day, my children had got up, dressed, had their breakfast, played, had their dinner, we'd been out for the afternoon, come home and decided to watch a film, I'd nipped into the kitchen to switch the oven on and contemplate what we were having for tea. Perfectly normal day!

Aydan, my 10 month old, started to cry, but it wasn't a normal cry, it was a frightened cry. He'd been asleep in his bouncer while his big brothers and sisters were sat with him, watching the film. My first initial thought was that maybe he'd woken and got confused about where he was, or maybe his slightly older sister had tripped and fallen on him.... again.....

As I came closer I saw his whole body flinch, his arms flew up in front of his face and he looked absolutely terrified! If I didn't know any better I would have thought that somebody had just gone to throw something at him. Whatever it was he was scared!

I picked him up and gave him a cuddle and made the usual shushing sounds and swaying gently.

He did it again....

and then again....

in fact he did it roughly every 30 seconds and it lasted for about 10 minutes.

Just a quick kind of flinch, only lasted about a second, his hands would fly up to his face, he would duck his head down, and his knees would try to come up to his chest. The crying stopped really quickly once I was cuddling him, but again this flinching kept going on, but it did eventually slow down and become less violent.

I had gathered then at this point that what I had just seen was some kind of seizure, but never having really seen any before, and assuming that I was just being an overly paranoid mum, I rang NHS direct and spoke to a lovely Doctor on there.

I told him that Aydan had been grumpy for a couple of weeks now, and that he'd been having teething pains and a slight fever.

We came to the conclusion that it was probably because of his teeth and a fever, he was acting normal again now, but I should keep a close eye on him and take him the doctors first thing in the morning, or sooner if it happened again.

I have to say that I definitely kept a close eye on him that night!!!

Here is a picture of my happy little man!