Strange thing happened to toddler face drooped. Seizure?

[worriedcantsleep]

I'm going out of my mind with concern
My 20 month year old dd was drinking her cup of juice this afternoon and had just done a poo so was about to go over to her to pick her up to change her.
I looked over at her and her head was tipped back slightly and the left side of her face had drooped. Her mouth was hanging open on that side, she looked like a drunk person I callout to her and she is now looking in my direction but one of her eyes is unfocused and looking outwards.
I grabbed hold of her and picked her up and she looked like she was losing consciousness. I called shouted her name in her face then my partner came over and did the same and dd appeared to 'come back to the room' as such and started crying.
I would say this whole thing lasted no more than 20! Seconds.

We took her to the changing mat to get her sorted and read to her from her favourite animal book whilst this happened to see if she would interact with me as normal and she did.

What could this have been? After she went to bed I started to google and all that kept coming up was seizures and brain tumours. I'm beside myself and can't sleep . I'm terrified this could be cancer and we will loose her and we love her so much and waited 5 years for her.

Anyone have any experience of this.
A bit of further info
She banged her forehead badly on Saturday afternoon whilst playing. She cried and there is a big bruise.
She appears to be teething her first mollars at the moment and she has been dribbling excessively for a couple of weeks now but she has NOT got a fever/temperature with it.

Hope all is ok now

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@orpah

Why on earth didn’t you seek medical help especially considering the head injury?! I’m speechless

You're not "speechless" though are you. You managed to type that unnecessary dig when OP is feeling shitty enough.

I’m glad this thread hasn’t been taken down for 2 reasons. First because it might help someone else if they find themselves in OP’s position, maybe they too would be unsure if it was a situation that needed urgent medical attention or not, and having read this maybe now they’ll be more confident about what to do. And second because it highlights just how damaging online bullying is. The OP came and asked a genuine question and was ripped apart by some people. That is not ok. Hopefully some of the posters that did that will understand that whilst the answer may have been obvious to them it wasn’t to the OP and that’s why she asked.

OP I hope your DD is full of beans today and that it was nothing serious. The fact you were worried and looked for advice proves you’re a caring mum who’s doing her best and obviously loves her child. Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help

I had bels palsy last year. The rude receptionist at the hospital a and e turned me away. I wish I’d took a stance and asked for her manager as I have long term damage in my face. Don’t ingnore .

OP how's things?

Sorry i hasn’t read your getting attention. Hope he’s doing ok

Please believe me, you are an amazing Mum! I can tell that just by reading your posts.

Every time I look at my eldest child (now an adult but never progressed from a baby) I am reminded of what a useless Mum I am and how I have failed him.
I did all the right things during my pregnancy 21 years ago (literally followed the text book as he was my first much wanted baby). Yet somehow I failed to bring him into the world safely.
I will live my entire life not knowing what I could have done differently that may have prevented him never progressing beyond the baby stage. He never spoke a word and still shakes a rattle.
That is a shit Mum!

Please let us know how things are ignore the horrible comments from the Karens . Toddlers are always banging their heads and the hospitals would be overflowing from parents rushing in every time children banged themselves. Please keep us updated

I think it’s a good lesson for other parents to know. Perhaps some don’t know what to look for after a head injury. We definitely all need to be taught first aid/cpr etc. What shocked me the most was when OP mentioned she was beside herself and couldn’t sleep with the worry. So that’s why I mentioned why hasn’t she acted sooner. To me I would’ve went straight to the hospital with the sudden facial droopiness but It seems if the Op doesn’t know then many others don’t know either.

You're not a shit mother. That posters criticise you for asking for help says everything about them and nothing about you.

I hope your daughter is OK x

ignore the horrible comments from the Karens

And the people trotting out sexist stereotypes

I'm a shit mother.

No you aren't. Absolutely not!

No one is a perfect mother, no one makes zero mistakes, everyone doubts themselves on many occasions.

@sassle

Please let us know how things are ignore the horrible comments from the Karens . Toddlers are always banging their heads and the hospitals would be overflowing from parents rushing in every time children banged themselves. Please keep us updated

Of course the OP's name could be Karen. As could the name of many of the supportive posters

Aww bless you OP. Please don't be so hard on yourself. You are nowhere near being a shit mum.

It's not easy parenthood, eh? None of us are perfect, and most of our DCs have the marks to prove it!

Posting on the internet instead of getting medical advice is very strange. Poor child if her parents think random strangers are a better source of advice than a doctor.

I would just go straight to A&E personally. Forget the GP.

It sounds like it was scary. It's not normal. So go; push for tests and if it ever happens again (as weird as it sounds) film it.

Sometimes doctors need to see things like this to make a diagnosis

I hope the GP has sent you up to paediatrics for a full check over. It sounds very strange, and I'd be strongly considering a head scan. (Paediatrician). Fingers crossed that it isn't anything serious, but need to be sure.

@Redburnett

Posting on the internet instead of getting medical advice is very strange. Poor child if her parents think random strangers are a better source of advice than a doctor.

Lots of people ask advice from others before rushing to the Dr or hospital.

@Awalkinthefreshair

Please believe me, you are an amazing Mum! I can tell that just by reading your posts.

Every time I look at my eldest child (now an adult but never progressed from a baby) I am reminded of what a useless Mum I am and how I have failed him.
I did all the right things during my pregnancy 21 years ago (literally followed the text book as he was my first much wanted baby). Yet somehow I failed to bring him into the world safely.
I will live my entire life not knowing what I could have done differently that may have prevented him never progressing beyond the baby stage. He never spoke a word and still shakes a rattle.
That is a shit Mum!

@Awalkinthefreshair You are not a shit mum. From what you say, it's not your fault, it seems like just one of those things. You shouldn't blame yourself. 💐💐

I'm really pleased to see another poisonous post deleted.

I did want to say though that many, many people don't know what a seizure looks like. They manifest sometimes in very subtle ways, and if you have no experience of them, and even if you do, you could easily miss them. I have two friends, both experienced and capable mothers, who only realised their babies were having seizures by describing them online on parenting forums as troubling things they weren't sure they should report to their GPs. Both ended up in A&E in short order. Neither of them were told by any medical professionals that they were failures as parents.

We don't have any idea whether this even was a seizure or something entirely innocuous.

Please don’t take the negative messages to heart, worriedcantsleep. It’s easy for them to be judgemental and nasty when it’s not their situation.
I am sure the majority of parents have had something happen to their child when they haven’t been sure of what to do for the best. It’s often a mix of over reacting, under reacting and shock. Also, things happen and it’s not until your children are sleeping that you sit and reflect and then wonder if you’ve done the right thing.
We don’t have an instruction manual for our treasured children and there are so many situations we go through that it’s impossible to prepare for them all. In another thread somebody will have taken their child to a&e and will then get a bashing from other posters for wasting hospital staff time- there is no winning on here!

When my ds was about 9 he was standing on a log in our garden when he slipped and fell over. He got straight back up without a word, carried on chatting and then they went to watch tv. A short while later my friend heard him tell her dc his arm was sore so we looked at it. No flinching really and no sign of injury but I decided to take him to a&e just in case. Turns out he had fractured his arm! It certainly wasn’t obvious.

Be kind to yourself and know that you are a good mum as you cared enough to question what happened and had a plan to get help. I hope all is good with you today and you managed to see the gp.