Jess Shears, 33, from Darlington
With a look of determination, I watched as my son crawled around.
Our baby Albie always hit milestones early.
Now, at just six months, he was crawling across the floor and grinning proudly.
Albie was such 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, in summer 2021, Albie started to change.
He’d wake up grumpy and 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 different baby.
He started being sick
