Rosanna Davison has told of her fright after she had to rush baby Hugo to hospital late on Thursday after he had difficulty breathing.
The former Miss World is mum to two-year-old Sophia and 15-month-old twin boys Hugo and Oscar.
But Rosanna revealed she had to rush baby Hugo to Crumlin’s Children’s Hospital after she noticed he was having difficulty breathing.
Speaking on Instagram, the 37-year-old beauty queen told her followers: “We spent most of the night in A&E in Crumlin with Hugo. He gave us a bit of a fright. He had a bit of a head cold yesterday and I noticed he was a bit wheezy in his chest, so I brought him down to the pharmacy and they advised me to give him cough medicine and keep an eye on him, which I did.
“And I checked him, he was fine, he was his usual happy, cheerful, cheeky self all day but when I went to check on him and take his temperature at about 10:30pm last night, I noticed he was really wheezy and struggling to breathe so I rang my mum in a panic and she said she would come over and I’ll drive you to Crumlin.
“So I hopped into the car and we drove up to the A&E and they saw us really quickly and I just want to say a huge thank you to the doctor and the nurses there. They couldn’t have been kinder and more reassuring and sweeter to Hugo. They just made both of us feel really at ease.”
Rosanna revealed her young son was diagnosed with croup, which is an infection of the upper airway, which obstructs breathing and causes a characteristic barking cough.
“Turns out he has croup which I’m told is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract and it just causes inflammation there of the tissues and it can cause difficulty breathing. I was told I did the right thing by bringing him in. He was given a steroid and that calmed down the inflammation and they just monitored him then for another couple of hours.
“I don’t think we got home until after half three and then Sophia woke at 5am… so it wasn’t the best night,” she said.
But Rosanna said she wanted to show people how Instagram isn’t real and just hours before she was panicking to get Hugo into hospital, she had been posting pictures of her modelling a series of dresses from Oasis.
“Lessons learned was always trust your gut as a mum. You know your baby best. Part of me was thinking was I overreacting…but I went in and the doctor said we did the right thing by bringing him in.
“And second lesson is that Instagram isn’t real. I was there posting pictures of pretty dresses a couple of hours before I ended up in A&E with my baby.
“What you see on social media doesn’t reflect people’s real lives,” she added.
