When infant patients and their parents tumble into the world of liver transplantation, they are not as lighthearted and curious as Alice — the hospital is not a Wonderland. However, they do discover, as she does, that they are leaving the ordinary life they shared behind. The geography lessons that Alice learned in school have become somewhat pointless; they do not seem to tell her where she is. The same happens with family habits and self-understandings when a child is threatened by disease and the need for liver transplantation. In retrospective interviews with parents about their child's liver transplantation, the time leading up to the transplantation is depicted as a period of transition. Their child's threatening disease has abruptly interrupted their lives, and indeed, many parents indicate that somehow their life stopped in this period: “Your life comes to a halt,” as one of our respondents put it.