Carrie Johnson taken to hospital with severe dehydration
Carrie Johnson was admitted to hospital with severe dehydration because of the hot weather.
The wife of Boris Johnson said she had spent two nights in hospital after a 'brutal' week in which she also suffered from mastitis, a form of breast inflammation.
Mrs Johnson gave birth to her fourth child, a girl named Poppy, in May.
Writing on Instagram on Friday, she said: 'Being hospitalised for two nights for severe dehydration was not on my postpartum bingo card.
'Breastfeeding mums make sure you eat and drink enough in this heat. Especially if your babe is clusterfeeding.'
Temperatures are set to surpass 30C this weekend.
Clusterfeeding is when a baby feeds very frequently in a few hours before going without milk for extended periods.
Mrs Johnson added: 'This week has honestly been brutal. Mastitis (me), Reflux (her), Dehydration (me). What a pair we are! But thank you for all the kindest messages, especially all the brilliant advice on reflux. Really appreciate it and made me feel way less alone going [through] it all. And as ever, thanks to our amazing NHS.'
Mr and Mrs Johnson have three other children together: Wilf, five, Romy, three, and Frank, one.
Mrs Johnson is a former communications officer who worked for the Conservative Party from 2009 to 2019. She acted as a media special adviser for Conservative Cabinet ministers including Sajid Javid and John Whittingdale.
In 2018, at the age of 29, she was appointed as the Conservative party's head of communications during the government of Theresa May. She left the position a year later.
Her relationship with Mr Johnson was announced in 2019 as he was preparing to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party and the country.
When Mr Johnson became premier in July of that year, she became the first unmarried partner of a prime minister to reside in Downing Street. While living there, they had Wilfred and Romy.
They are thought to have met as early as 2010 when Mrs Johnson, née Symonds, was a press officer working on Mr Johnson's campaign to be reselected as the Conservative candidate for London mayor.
The couple now live in South Oxfordshire where they own a Grade II listed 17th-century country house. The house is surrounded by five acres of grounds and has nine bedrooms.
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