The baby is now a year old and healthy.
A four-week-old baby is seen breathing strangely in this video, posted online as a cautionary lesson for other parents.
Little Luna can be seen “sucking in” at the ribs – a sign to take your child to a hospital says mum and radio presenter Charlie O’Brien.
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The video, viewed more than 1.5 million times, was filmed more than a year ago, and today Luna is a healthy one-year-old, but she actually had bronchiolitis when this was filmed.
Her anxious mum can be heard saying “I’m not happy with that” in the video, recorded at home as she was on the phone to NHS 111.
Bronchiolitis is a viral infection with mild cold-like symptoms in adults and older children but more serious in young babies.
It is caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – a common germ spread through tiny droplets from coughs and sneezes, or by touching someone infected by the virus, or something contaminated by the virus like a toy.
O’Brien, a presenter, podcaster and blogger, wrote in a Facebook post which has been shared more than 27,000 times: “We’re heading into the dreaded season of non-stop colds coughs and viruses so thought it was worth a mention.
“When Luna was four-weeks old she had a really quiet day of sleeping and barely any crying.
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“I was watching her sleep next to me and realised it didn’t look right. I unbuttoned her babygrow and this is what I saw.
“Sucking in at ribs is a sign to get your baby or child to hospital.
“She had bronchiolitis and her oxygen levels were very low. Luckily after a night on oxygen, she made a very good recovery.”
The advice given by O’Brien is backed up by former nurse, health visitor and author Sarah Beeson.
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“If you see that ‘sucking in’, if you see that difference with breathing, I absolutely agree to seek medical advice. Don’t hang back – you’re not bothering the doctor. It’s their job to look at your baby.
“Mothers should trust themselves. Who knows the baby better than his mother? It’s your right to get a medical opinion.”
Beeson, whose book is called Happy Baby, Happy Family, said worried parents should count up the symptoms they identify in their child – from being off their feeds and not urinating to a noisy or wheezy breathing with a “red light” for a temperature or the sucking in movement.
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“It’s lovely to know (this mother) did all the right things. She thought it wasn’t right and went to hospital.”
O’Brien has been praised for sharing the video on her Facebook page.
One response said: “I’ve heard this but never knew what to look for. Really helpful to see it, thank you.”
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight Saturday. Until that moment, the family was like so many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
Sabreen's father was killed. Her 4-year-old sister was killed. Her mother was killed.
But emergency responders learned that her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was 30 weeks pregnant. In a rush at the Kuwaiti hospital where the bodies were taken, medical workers performed an emergency cesarean section.
Little Sabreen was near death herself, fighting to breathe. Her tiny body lay in the recovery position on a small piece of carpet as medical workers gently pumped air into her open mouth. A gloved hand tapped at her chest.
She survived.
On Sunday, in the hours after the airstrike, she whimpered and wriggled inside an incubator at the nearby Emirati hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. She wore a diaper too big for her and her identity was scrawled in pen on a piece of tape around her chest: “The martyr Sabreen al-Sakani’s baby."
“We can say there is some progress in her health condition, but the situation is still at risk,” said Dr. Mohammad Salameh, head of the unit. “This child should have been in the mother’s womb at this time, but she was deprived of this right.”
He described her as a premature orphan girl.
But she is not alone.
“Welcome to her. She is the daughter of my dear son. I will take care of her. She is my love, my soul. She is a memory of her father. I will take care of her,” said Ahalam al-Kurdi, her paternal grandmother. She clutched her chest and rocked with grief.
At least two-thirds of the more than 34,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since this war began have been children and women, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
The other Israeli airstrike in Rafah overnight killed 17 children and two women from an extended family.
Not everyone is immediately recovered after such attacks.
“My son was also with them. My son became body parts and they have not found him yet. They do not recognize him,” said Mirvat al-Sakani, Sabreen's maternal grandmother. “They have nothing to do with anything. Why are they targeting them? We don’t know why, how? We do not know.”
On Sunday, the survivors buried the dead. Children in bloodied wraps were placed in body bags and into the dusty ground as families wailed.
Little boys watched and tried to keep their footing at the edge of a grave.
Find more of AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war
A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)
A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)
