Former TOWIE star Frankie Essex gave birth to her twins, whom she shares with boyfriend Luke Love, last May and has since shared updates while settling into life with babies Logan and Luella.

In her exclusive column for OK! , Frankie has discussed a range of topics related to motherhood – from her first social outing with the twins and a blackout at her home when they were just a few days old, to “feeling more human again” as the babies dropped their dreaded 2am feed.

This week Frankie reveals how she was left terrified when she thought Logan had swallowed a battery, how the poison team had to be contacted when they arrived in A&E, but that he was ultimately okay…

A battery exploded in our house

We heard a small explosion in the living room when me and Luke were sitting there in the evening and it actually made me jump, but we couldn't see anything wrong so went to bed.

The next morning at about half seven, the twins were up and I gave them their bottles in the living room and then I noticed there was half a button battery on the floor next to Logan. I realised then that that must have been what exploded but I couldn't find the other half.

And then I immediately started panicking because he's always putting things in his mouth.

We ended up rushing Logan to A&E

Luke was still asleep so I called 111 straight away and just said "I think my baby's swallowed half a battery" and then told to me to give him a teaspoon of honey every 10 minutes and bring him to A&E.

So I went and woke Luke up and said "we need to go to A&E" and once I explained what happened he ran downstairs to look or the other half of the battery, which he found. I was still on the phone to 111 at this point and they said we should still take him to A&E in case he'd had either half in his mouth.

We were in the car but at about eight o'clock and just rushed to the hospital, luckily we only had to wait half an hour to be seen when we got there.

They had to call the poison team

The doctors monitored Logan for about three hours and he was fine, but they did have to speak to the poison team because with it being an open battery it was just a completely different scenario because normally they're closed. But the half we think he had in his mouth was the magnesium side, while it's the other side that would have been more dangerous.

I was terrified after being told 'you don't know if it's too late

When I was on the phone [to 111] the lady said you need to take him to A&E because you don't know if it's going to be too late. You don't know when he swallowed it, because it could have been the night before.

And at the hospital one of the doctors came and sat with me because I kept asking questions and they said "Honestly, you don't want to know what could have happened to him if he had swallowed the battery."

He said sometimes people just don't realise and it's already too late, and I just burst out crying. It could have just gone so differently.

I've thrown out all the unused batteries in my home now

I would keep my batteries altogether in a box, but when that one exploded it somehow got out of the box. We're so lucky it didn't cause a fire or something, so now I've just thrown them all away.

Before if I bought a pack of batteries I would take the one I need and just put the others in the box, but now, if I can still only find multipacks, I'm just going to take the one I need and chuck the rest. I just don't want them in my house now and after seeing the effects. It's just not worth the risk.

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