28/05/2026
The Support Edit puts the spotlight on the support every mama deserves to know about.
Today: The Sick Sense.
It’s the one thing every parent wishes they’d done before everything else. What could be more important?
Meet Ilana, Paediatric Nurse Consultant, a decade in paediatric emergency, and a mum. She founded .sick.sense because of the gap she kept seeing, parents stuck between Googling and ending up in ED “just in case,” and clinicians wishing families had been taught the stuff that would have let them stay home with confidence (or come in sooner, when it mattered).
She teaches how to recognise when a child is getting sicker, before it’s a crisis. Red flags for fever, breathing, rash, hydration, head injury. CPR and choking response you can recall under pressure. When to stay home, when to see a GP, when to go to ED.
It’s not fear-based. It’s the opposite. Muscle memory + a decision-making framework, the things that let you trust your gut and act on it.
Your child getting sick or hurt isn’t an IF. It’s a WHEN. 💛
Find The Sick Sense in the directory link in bio. 🔗 A stronger village, one beautiful business at a time.