Pregnant Chloe Radford breaks down in tears as she’s rushed to hospital in ‘terrifying’ health scare while filming

PREGNANT Chloe Radford is rushed to hospital with a “terrifying” scare in this week’s 22 Kids and Counting.

In the dramatic episode, Noel and Sue ’s second eldest daughter , 29, admits to being exhausted working at the family’s pie shop while pregnant and looking after first child Mila.

In the voiceover, she says: “I think in your second pregnancy it’s more draining because you’ve got a toddler to look after, as well as being pregnant. 

“I’m knackered!”

Concerned parents Noel and Sue try to insist that Chloe, who works as a bakery manager at the Radford Pie Company , slows down for the sake of her health, but she insists on working intensively.

One shift at work, Chloe starts feeling really unwell, causing Noel to shut the pie shop early for the day.

He says: “We shut up shop straight away, me and Luke looked after her.

“She obviously wasn’t well so I took her home.”

However, a few hours later, Chloe feels like something was wrong with the baby.

She says: “He usually moves, he’s usually moving when I’m lying down.

“I feel a bit uneasy about it, I’m going to ring triage.”

Noel rushes his daughter to hospital to check that everything is ok, and she’s booked in for an emergency scan.

Thankfully everything is ok, and staff were able to find a heartbeat for Chloe’s baby.

The relieved mum says: “I think last night, it was just awful wasn’t it, just thinking, it doesn’t feel like he is moving. 

“Just an awful feeling. My hand was just shaking.”

Her security guard boyfriend Jacob Wallace, who she’s been with since 2021, adds: “We have this uneasy feeling the whole time.”

A happy Chloe comments: “The main thing is, baby boy seems happy in there on the monitor. His heartbeat is good.

“You just breathe such a sigh of relief. It’s just scary isn’t it.”

BABY JOY

Chloe and Jacob welcomed their son Bodhi Reign into the world on April 28, 2025.

Chloe previously opened up on her “brutal” labour story, saying she experienced what midwives believed to be a very “dangerous” issue that caused hours of bleeding.

The blonde beauty also shared that while she was in hospital practically all day before her little darling was born , she was actually only pushing for nine minutes.

Posting on social media , the 29-year-old filmed herself whilst breastfeeding her newborn, as she shared an insight into her “birth story”.

The content creator said: “I gave birth two weeks ago so I thought I would just sit down and film my birth story with little Bodhi .”

“It was the 28th of April and we had got up at 6am with our little girl and set off to take her to nursery at 7:30am and on the way there, I had my first contraction.

“We’d come home, got back into bed and I had a couple more and went back to sleep until 9:30am and then woke up and it felt like I had just come on my period .

“I thought because I’d had a couple of contractions that morning, I thought maybe that was my waters. 

“I looked and it was actually like I had just come on my period – there was blood on the bed, so I quickly ran to the toilet and it was all in the toilet as well.

“It was a bit panicky. I rang the delivery suite, told them what was going on and they asked us to come in. I think she was just a bit worried.”

HOSPITAL SCARE

Chloe then detailed what happened when she and Jacob arrived at the hospital , as she shared: “I had an internal examination and my waters hadn’t gone yet – they said that they were bulging, so the plan was, they were gonna pop my waters for me and try and get things going that way.

“They put a cannula in my hand, I think, just so that it was in there in case anything was needed.

“There were a couple of conversations about c-sections , which I think just panics you, so, yeah, it was actually really quite scary looking back on it.

“They put the cannula in, she actually blew two veins and then we got it third time lucky.

“We were taken into the delivery room and we had to wait for the best time to have my waters popped, because it was really, really busy on the ward that day, so they just had to make sure that they were doing it at the best and safest time.”

Following this, Chloe, confirmed that she was examined again, only to be told by the midwife that they believed her waters had already broken.

But Chloe added: “All that was coming out was blood. They didn’t actually know why I was bleeding so much, so I had to be on the monitors the whole time. I think they were worried about him as well.

“Turns out my waters had actually gone on their own at some point but I was still bleeding.

“I was basically bleeding the whole time that I was in labour to be honest.”

BRUTAL CONTRACTIONS

Detailing the “brutal” contractions, Chloe admitted: “The contractions – wow, wow, wow, wow – those contractions were brutal, absolutely brutal. 

“It felt like they were every minute, they really ramped up so fast.

“I said to the midwife, ‘as soon as I am able to have the epidural , can I please have it?,’ because I knew things were moving fast, so I just wanted to make sure that they were there ready to go with the epidural.

“But I was progressing so quickly it turns out I didn’t have time to have the epidural.”

Reflecting on the hectic day, Chloe shared: “So this all started at 9:30am in the morning and then by 6:20pm he was actually born.

“I was only pushing for nine minutes, which was just so, so fast.

“I couldn’t actually believe it. At one point they said ‘we just need to move you onto your side, because he’s not liking the position that you’re in and we need to get him out’. And so he came out in the next push.”

Following this, Chloe recalled: “The placenta actually came out at the same time as he did, so what they thought happened was that my placenta had actually started to come away, which would explain the bleeding – I think that can be quite dangerous.

“I’m just so grateful and so happy that he arrived absolutely fine.”

Moments after the birth, Chloe remembered: “We had skin to skin when he was born for about an hour, Jake cut his cord.

“He weighed six pounds six ounces, was born at 6:21pm and he’s just perfect. 

“We did actually have to stay in for 24 hours afterwards just because of my blood pressure .

“Then we got to go home and he’s been absolutely amazing since.”