What happens when you are not paying attention...

I feel I was distracted by the Elder Lemons problems so had decided to completely ignore all the redflags that were being swung aroud me. Life carried on as normal and I even told myself that I had imagined all probs with Munchkin. Sure, wasn't she making babbling noises, she had just started to walk, why worry about the other quirky stuff. I went into denial for a short while until one fateful morning in early November 2007. I had had another sleepless night with Munchkin (sleep was a big big big prob in the house!) I woke up with the vomiting bug and physically couldn't take care of Munchkin so I asked the my teenage daughter Yani to mind her so I could lie down upstairs. 5 mins later I heard the screams from the kitchen... I ran downstairs to see what was wrong.... Charlie appeared to be choking in her highchair. I whipped her out and turned her over and checked her airways, nothing visable lodged. I repeated the baby heimlich while Yani phoned for an ambulance and we were told that it'd take 45 mins for the Ambulance to pick us up so we said feck it anyway and I drove my precious cargo to a&e. At this stage she was breathing again but unresponsive and sleeping..

All the time we were on gurneys at the hospital, I had the indignity of vomiting into the tinyest kidney bowls known to man! It was ascertained that she hadn't choked but had had a seizure. They decided to admit us as they couldnt' figure out why Munchin had had the seizure...That afternoon, just after feeding her, the nurse suddently stopped and pointed. Munchkin had keeled over on the bed and was in a grand mal seizure! Temps were taken and nothing abnormal there. It baffled us so lots of blood and other samples were taken for analysis and other tests.

She recovered nicely in hospital but did subject us to "Elmo in Grouchland" over and over and over..... We left hospital and we never ever got a conclusive or satisfactory answer as to why this happened!