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Olive Loveridge-Greene & Ryan Merrifield

Mum shares sepsis warning after baby son's skin turns blue and almost dies at 11 days old

A mum has told how her newborn baby turned blue from sepsis – after thinking he had just caught his sister's seasonal cold.

Chloe Hodgkinson, 22, from Haydock, Merseyside, was visiting her GP for a follow-up after developing an abscess on her leg, and decided to bring her 11-day-old baby Joshua along.

After the appointment and on leaving the GP surgery, dad Teejay peered over to look at their newborn – only to notice their baby boy had begun to turn blue.

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