A mother has been charged with abandoning a child after her 21-month-old toddler found her alleged stash of the drug ice and ate it.
Despite digesting enough of the destructive drug to have fatal consequences, the little boy miraculously survived and is today in the care of the Department of Families and Community Services.
His mother, a 27-year-old from NSW's Illawarra region, called an ambulance in a panic on January 25 after finding her son having seizures in her bedroom.
It is alleged the mother put her son down in her bedroom the night before while she stayed in the lounge room.
At some point during the night or morning, the boy discovered the drug in his mother's bedroom and ate it.
Tests at Wollongong Hospital revealed the boy tested positive to having methamphetamine in his system and a red flag was raised with police.
Medical staff determined he had digested a substantial amount of the drug that was likely to cause "serious injury or death".
Child abuse squad detectives later searched the woman's Koonawarra home and allegedly found ice, cannabis, prescription drugs and a pipe.
Eight months after the boy was taken to hospital, his mother was issued with a court attendance notice for several offences.
She is due to face Port Kembla Local Court on Wednesday on charges of abandoning or exposing a child under seven to cause danger of death, and drug possession.