Rosanna Davison has urged other mums to "always trust your gut" after she had to rush her baby son Hugo to hospital on Thursday night because he had difficulty breathing.
The former Miss World, 37, is mum to two-year-old Sophia and 15-month-old twin boys Hugo and Oscar.
Rosanna revealed she had to rush baby Hugo to Crumlin’s Children’s Hospital.
Taking Instagram afterwards, 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."
Rosanna thanked the doctors and nurses in A&E at Crumlin who "made us feel really at ease" as they looked after her son.
Rosanna revealed her young son was subsequently diagnosed with croup.
She said: “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.
Rosanna said she wanted to show people how Instagram isn’t real and as 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.
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