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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Chelsea Ritschel

Mother shares video of infant with RSV struggling to breathe as a warning to other parents

Instagram / Brittani Boren Leach

A parenting influencer has gone viral after sharing a video of her infant son struggling to breathe; her video was meant to serve as a warning to parents to trust their instincts, as her five week old was initially sent home from the hospital despite being diagnosed with a virus.

Brittani Boren Leach, who frequently shares insight into her life as a mother of six children on her YouTube and Instagram, revealed last week that her infant son Cam was diagnosed with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) after he’d caught it from her older sons.

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