I thought my newborn had just caught his sister’s cold – days later I was terrified when he turned blue

A YOUNG family was left devastated when they learned that their 11-day-old son's cold-like illness almost killed him.

Chloe Hodgkinson, 22, from Haydock, Merseyside, was visiting her GP for an appointment for an unrelated illness and decided to bring her 11-day-old baby Joshua along.

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.

"This was when our whole world began to fall apart,” the mum explained.

After receiving immediate CPR from the GP, the family noticed a visual rash on Joshua's body.

The baby would later rushed to rushed to Whiston Hospital where he was eventually diagnosed with sepsis.

"I remember just sitting there with my head in my hands, distressed, thinking that my son was going to die right in front of me," Chloe said.

The newborn had been suffering with cold and flu symptoms a few days beforehand.

His parents had assumed he'd caught it off their one-year-old daughter, Alexis.

"We thought it was nothing more than a slight bug and being around her snuffly nose and cough," she said. 

Joshua eventually came around not long before the ambulance arrived and the toddler was taken to hospital.

Chloe says doctors wanted to discharge Joshua after a short stay and said the blue skin had been a result of choking on breast milk.

But watchful dad Teejay noticed a rash on Joshua's body and the parents asked that their child be looked over again.

When they did, medical staff noticed their baby had stopped breathing once again.