Julia Hagreen, 40, Huddersfield
Setting piping-hot plates on the table, I shouted upstairs. ‘Dinner’s ready!’ I called, as footsteps thundered.
But as me, my partner Darren, 49, and our son George, then 3, wolfed down our tea, I realised Sofia, then 5, was chewing each mouthful slowly.
‘That’s it, chew it 30 times,’ encouraged her sister Mollie, then 7.
It was August 2018, and ever since Sofia had nearly choked on some cheese a few weeks earlier, they’d both been extra cautious.
It had been terrifying, but Sofia had been OK.
However, as she splashed in the sea on a holiday in Devon soon after, I noticed she looked very thin.
Then there were times on our trip when her speech slurred or she’d throw up.
‘I’m worried,’ I told…
