A FIVE-YEAR-OLD crouched at her mother’s side while she was having a seizure, picked up the phone and punched in her grandmother’s number to summon help.

Little Emily, who lives in Barton, Oxford, dialled for help on Tuesday morning after realising her mum Katie Brown was having an epileptic fit.

Emily, who also has epilepsy, said: “I had to ring Nanna for help because Nanna is my favourite person. I wanted to make Mummy feel better. I always look after Mummy.”

She went into her mother’s room at about 7am when Miss Brown didn’t wake her for breakfast and found her lying motionless on the floor.

Emily’s grandmother Linda Brown was shocked to hear her granddaughter’s voice after her daughter’s name flashed up on her mobile phone.

The 53-year-old, who works for Nuffield Health in Headington, said: “I was frightened being at that end of the phone, trying to talk to a five-year-old. But she is bright – she was a lot calmer than I was.

“She said ‘mummy’s having a wobbly’. I said ‘can mummy talk yet?’ and she said ‘she’s trying to’. She put it on loudspeaker so I could tell Katie was coming round and I explained to her that ‘mummy might need to rest for a little while’, and to make sure her sister Poppy was safe.

“She kept the phone with her and kept going back in the bedroom to check on Katie.”

Emily distracted two-year-old Poppy by putting on the TV, before dressing herself for school.

Single mum Miss Brown, 27, said: “I’m just so pleased she was there. I’m really proud of her, to be that young and know what to do. It’s in her nature. I was worried it was scary for her.

“I got up a few times in the night and the next thing I remember is lying in the doorway of my room.

“She came round and got my phone from me.

“My friend came to pick her up to take her to school. Emily was worried she was going to miss it – she loves learning.”

Emily, who goes to Bayards Hill Primary School in Barton, had her first epileptic fit at just seven months old, though her mum only started having them a year ago.

Miss Brown said: “She has them when there’s lots going on, it’s her way of calming down. I don’t think she realises what they are but she knows she’s felt poorly.

“We call them ‘wobblies’ because she couldn’t pronounce it – she calls it “epipesy”.

“We have tried talking to her a lot about it – she’s old enough to understand. We showed her how to use my phone and she’s been quite good at it. She’s been pinching it saying she’s practising.

“She doesn’t like to be on her own. My nan passed away and my stepdad, and we lost both family dogs, all in the past two years.

“She feels like people are leaving her so she likes to make sure we’re all here. It’s all a lot in her little life.”

Linda Brown said: “Emily is very caring with her mum – they are very close because it’s only the three of them. If one is poorly they’ve all got to be with each other. Quite often when they are poorly Katie will move her mattress and sleep in their room.”

Full-time-mum Miss Brown also cares for her amputee grandad, who recently had a cancerous tumour removed from his chest.