Lala Kent Details Terrifying ER Visit With Daughter Ocean As She ‘Out of Breath’

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Lala Kent went through a scary ordeal with her little girl last week.

Share experience on it Give them Lala podcast, the Vanderpump Rules The star, 32, shared that she was getting into bed after putting her daughter to bed when she heard Ocean, 19 months, getting “upset” in her room.

Explaining that the toddler was used to sleeping, Kent said she knew Ocean’s crying meant “something was wrong.”

“I come in and she’s gasping for air, she can’t breathe,” Kent said, explaining that she was reassured that the little girl was screaming because it meant she had air in her lungs.

“I watched her for what seemed like an hour, which was actually five minutes, before I decided we were going to the emergency room – as if something was wrong,” she recalls.

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“I was looking at her, trying to lay down, smoking in the shower, (and) while she was smoking, I put her on my chest, I lay down on the bed, and you could tell by the way she was talking that she was having trouble breathing,” she explained. “Now I’m not messing around.”

Kent rushed her little girl – who she shares with ex Randall Emmett – to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she was placed “immediately in a room.”

“She cried and then coughed, and this nurse hears it and asks, ‘How long has this baby been doing this?'” Kent shared.

“I said, ‘I don’t know because I just got her back. I share custody right now. I got her at 7, I dropped her off. That’s what I have now,’” she continued.

Noting that Ocean was “a little lethargic” and had a runny nose, Kent didn’t think much of it at first because “I was told my baby was doing just fine when she was in the other house “.

“She ended up getting croup, which is very scary when they’re infants,” she noted of the illness, defined by the Mayo Clinic as “an upper respiratory infection, which obstructs breathing. and causes a characteristic barking cough. “

“Luckily, Ocean’s lungs are developed, so if it’s caught early, it’s a disease that can be very easily treated. »

Kent and Emmett split in October 2021. Last December, she told PEOPLE that she wouldn’t involve “a guy” if she decided to have more children.

“I want to have more kids,” Kent said at the time. “I don’t think there’s going to be a guy involved. In fact, I know for a fact there’s not going to be a guy involved if I choose to have another baby.”