When Kerry Pearson gave birth to her daughter Polly in March, she was excited for the future with her newborn. But when Polly was just two weeks old, on 6 April, she developed a rattly cough and had laboured breathing.
And after four days of coughing at home, the tot had to be rushed to hospital when she stopped breathing and turned blue. Shockingly, just three days later Polly was on a ventilator and in an induced coma. She had been diagnosed with whooping cough – a bacterial infection that generally doesn't respond to antibiotics.
Polly is now home and breathing independently, and Kerry, 26, who lives in Bexley, London, with her partner Jack Deehy, 29, a forklift driver and son Henry, seven, says her daughter is lucky to have…
