OUR ALBIE

With a look of determination, I watched as my son crawled all around the lounge. Our baby Albie always hit milestones early.

Now, at just six months, he was crawling across the floor and grinning from ear to ear.

Albie was a happy baby.

He smiled every morning when I picked him up from his cot, loved his food and was weaning easily and happily onto solids.

‘He’s a dream baby,’ friends would always joke.

And he really was.

Then, last summer, Albie started to change.

He’d wake up grumpy.

Instead of reaching his arms out to be picked up, he’d lay there crying.

Then he went off his food.

By the time he was 13 months old, in October 2021, he was a