A mother has spoken of her anguish after doctors allegedly dismissed her concerns about her baby’s seizures as "maternal anxiety," leading to months of untreated episodes and developmental regression. Olivia Matyus is now fundraising for further specialist stem cell therapy abroad, hoping it will allow her daughter, Ingrid, to continue making progress.
Ingrid, now four, was born "healthy" in April 2021. However, at three-and-a-half months old, during a trip to Romania for her christening, she began experiencing seizures that caused significant developmental regression. Olivia, a 38-year-old custodial manager, recalled that before the seizures, Ingrid could hold her head up and smile socially, but afterwards, she became "blank and absent." Olivia explained: "After the seizures, she went completely back to zero, as if she was a newborn. She couldn’t hold her head up, she lost her social smile, and just looked blank and absent."
