Yesterday I was nursing E and his eyes were closed and I'm pretty sure he was eating and sleeping IYKWIM? Well all of a sudden his head started shaking so I started yelling his name. He didn't stop, so my bf quick got up and grabbed him and woke him up and he stopped. When I got home from work today I jokingly asked if it happened today and my boyfriend said that it did. He said the same thing happened as yesterday, that when he woke him up it stopped. I just about started to cry. I was hoping this was all in the past. Does this sound like a seizure though? It was just his head that was shaking, not his body. And when we would wake him up from "sleeping" it stopped. So conveniently he has an appointment with his neurologist on Wednesday so we'll obviously let him know.
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Re: WDYT? regarding seizures.
Do you have a camera that takes video? We do, and we used it to take video of my son seizing. It was really helpful for our neuro to decide what type of seizure it was.
It could be a seizure, but then again sometimes when LO was a little younger he did some strange movements in his sleep. Since it sounds like your little guy has a history of seizures then I would document (time, what he was doing before, how long it lasted, etc) and record them if possible.
Good luck!
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He had a stroke when he was born and was having seizures on and off until he was 4 days old. He hasn't had one that we are aware of since then. When he had the seizures he was so little that they seemed like little hiccups to me, so I don't know what seizures are like in older babies.
No, it hasn't happened at all when he is awake. I'm happy to hear that a few of you don't think they are seizures though!
Seizures vary so much. DS' first seizure ended when we smacked him on the back. He spit up some fluid and started screaming. He had a flurry of seizures in the following 36 hours which were documented on EEG. But even my aunt, who is an RN, thought that first seizure sounded like a "hairball".
We did not want to believe it, since he was not sleeping afterwards, and the events did not look like seizures we had seen in others.
Your best bet is to take it to the neuro. If you can get video, that is always a huge help to the docs.
My DS has seizures everyday.
My DD has done what you described a couple of times when she was about 5 months old. Starts shaking a little bit while drinking her bottle & sleeping. When I woke her she stopped. It scared the crap outta me because it was very like DS's seizures, but in the end they were not seizures, just immature nervous system stuff. She did it about 3-4 times during a one week period, and has never done them since. My pedi was not concerned about it when I described them.
I hope that this is all that it is going on for your LO. Once your LO has seizures, you become hyper-sensitive to them, and everything can look like a seizure, whether it is or not.