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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCoronation Street<\/em> star Stephanie Davis has shared her ordeal of \u201canxious\u201d nights filled with \u201cdread\u201d after her two-month-old son experienced a series of breathing difficulties. <\/p>\nThe 32-year-old actor plays Courtney Vance in the popular soap set in Manchester, and first rose to fame as Sinead O\u2019Connor on Hollyoaks<\/em>. <\/p>\nThe mother-of-two gave birth to her second child, Samuel, in January, but the baby experienced a sudden loss of breathing on three occasions with foaming at the mouth. He was then hospitalised, which Davis called the \u201cscariest time of my life\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n
Explaining why she had been quiet on social media, she explained that the child\u2019s health issues had prompted sleepless nights filled with worry as she repeatedly sought to check he was ok.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, not posted much recently but haven\u2019t had many photos to post since Samuel had his breathing episodes,\u201d she wrote in a post on Instagram on Friday (9 May). <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just been at home watching him like a hawk.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that her son had had a further two \u201cepisodes\u201d, which had left her with sleepless nights.<\/p>\n
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Actor gave birth to Samuel in January this year (Instagram\/StephanieDavis88)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been so anxious since Samuel not breathing and now having 2 episodes, I\u2019ve spent most of my nights jumping awake with dread to go back to sleep and do it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis shares Samuel with her partner Joe McKalroy, and has an eight-year-old son with her former partner Jeremy McConnell. <\/p>\n
Discussing the challenges of juggling two children, she wrote: \u201cMum life is so busy you literally don\u2019t get a minute, let alone to post! Awful last photo of me and my two boys but I literally don\u2019t have any of us together. Don\u2019t you find you have a camera roll filled with photos of everyone else with your children and none of them with you.\u201d<\/p>\n