Wonderfully said batsgirl. It's so easy to be judgemental. What a daily hell that mother must live. So many times on this site I have read people critisising parents for over / under-reacting, but just because they don't respond in a text-book manner to an emergency situation doesn't make them bad parents or bad people. We all cope with stress differently, and even if the situation was pretty mundane to a health professional, to the parent it's the most frightening thing in the world.