Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent Breaks Down Over Rushing 18-Month-Old Daughter Ocean to the Hospital: She Was ‘Gasping for Air’

10.11.2022 - 04:37 / usmagazine.com

A mother’s worst nightmare. Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent revealed she recently had to rush her 18-month-old daughter, Ocean, to the emergency room after she sounded like she “couldn’t breathe.”

“I put her down on Wednesday night, I hear her upset. And people always ask, ‘Did you sleep train Ocean?’ And I did, because I feel like you know their cry,” Kent, 32, said during the Wednesday, November 9, episode of her “Give Them Lala” podcast. “This cry was, ‘Something’s wrong.’”

The Bravo star explained that while Ocean, whom she shares with ex Randall Emmett, was “gasping for air like she cannot breathe,” it felt like a good sign that she was “screaming” because “if she really couldn’t breathe, that wouldn’t have been possible.”

Kent shared that she “kept an eye” on her little one “for what seemed like an hour but was really maybe about 5 minutes” before deciding that the pair should head to the hospital. “Something was off,” the One Shot actress said.

“I was watching her, I tried to lay down, I was steaming the shower, [and] while it was steaming, I put her on my chest, laid in the bed and just the way she was sounding, you could tell she was having trouble breathing. Now I’m not f–king around,” she explained of the harrowing event.

The mom of one said she rushed her baby girl to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, noting that while the ER was “filled to the brim,” doctors pushed her into a room “immediately,” signaling the potential severity of Ocean’s medical issue.

The 18-month-old was eventually diagnosed with croup, which Kent said is “very, very scary” for an infant but also “treatable” if given steroids “to release the airway.” (Croup is “an infection of the upper airway with obstructs breathing, according to the