A.  Your child appears to be having breath-holding spells. Breath holding spells are episodes of brief cessations of breathing that occur in children in response to factors such as anger, frustration, hunger, or injury. These attacks stop, as the child grows older and cease by 2 to 2 and a 1/2 years. Kindly get a complete haemogram test done. If he has iron deficiency, then iron supplements will reduce the number of attacks. Keep the atmosphere at home calm; avoid keeping the baby hungry, and protect from injury.