One of my kids had a seizure today

[Inspired by Reggio]

When I worked in a daycare a long time ago, we had a little one in the infants room that when he got upset, he would literally stop breathing, his lips would even turn blue, we would have to blue puffs of air into his mouth as soon as this would start, to encourage him to take breath. It is very scary and thankfully not all that common. He did grow out of it eventually, but it was nerve racking everytime he would get really upset.

I have worked with children like this as well ~ the 'startle' response is not wired correctly and when they get hurt or upset they 'forget' to breath until something startles them to make them breath again or they pass out .... most children you can 'reset' them by blowing in their face or distracting them from the pain/upset with a hand clapping or your voice but we had one little girl that would literally have to 'pass out' if she got hurt or upset by something it was the only way to get her to start 'breathing' again because than the natural/subconscious instinct of the brain to send the message to the lungs to breath would take over not amount of 'startling' would help her brain kick in initially... it lasted until she was about 18 months and we could help her learn other coping mechanisms to 'calm herself'.

Scary indeed ~ if this was accident induced it could be something along the same line and he should grow out of it ~ I would try the blowing in his face or some other form of 'starting' him so that the subconscious need to breath can take over before he reaches that 'passing out' stage of the blank stare and eyes rolling around in his head