The Challenge alum Jenna Compono shared a frightening update regarding daughter Carmella’s health.
“Thank you everyone for reaching out, I was so overwhelmed with all the kind words! Carmella got the croup cough and it caused her oxygen to drop to 85,” Compono, 32, wrote alongside a photo of her youngest daughter, 17 months, asleep in a hospital bed via Instagram on Sunday, July 13.
Compono concluded, “Stay sanitary everyone, it’s so scary when a little one goes through this.”
“Aww poor baby !! Sending all the love your way for your lil one ❤️❤️❤️,” another user added.
“When those babies get sick, it’s the most helpless, pitiful thing ever. I’ll keep her in my prayers,” fellow Challenge alum Cohutta Lee Grindstaff wrote.
“We would like to introduce Miss Carmella Jean Nichols, who came into this world on 2/24/24 at 11:45PM,” Compono shared via Instagram at the time. “Let me just say we only got to the hospital at 11:30 PM, where I was fully dilated and didn’t have time for an epidural 😅 A few minutes later there she was. What an experience 😅♥️ She weighs 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long.”
In January, Compono and Nichols revealed that they were expecting their fourth child together. Compono shared a photo of her three kids sitting under “1,” “2” and “3” balloons, with an ultrasound scan and a “coming soon” board sitting under a “4” balloon.
In April, Compono shared an update on their unborn baby’s health, revealing that she had a choroid plexus cyst on her brain.
“I had my 20 week sono and they found a CPC seen in right ventricle of her brain (cyst). Genetic testing all came back low risk, the doctors mentioned it might fix itself but everything will be fine. Anyone experience this? 😳” she wrote via Instagram.
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Sure enough, Compono revealed in a 25-week update on April 30 that the cyst on her baby’s brain had disappeared.
In a small percentage of cases, a choroid plexus cyst can lead to a chromosome disorder called trisomy 18, which can cause a stillbirth, UCSF Health noted.
