When our first child, Mac, was about three months old, he started doing funny twitches before he went to sleep. I asked the Plunket nurse. about them at our regular check-up; she dismissed my concerns assuring me they were nothing to worry about. There was no recommendation that we visited our GP if we continued to be concerned.

I was quite happy to take to her advice. However, my husband was more cautious. He took Mac to our GP and the seizure word was mentioned for the first time. At this stage we did not know anything about epilepsy. That GP gave us the great advice to try to video the episodes. It was not hard to find an episode to video as he was having them several times a day.