A MUM has hit back at trolls who accused her of neglect for leaving

       her five-week-old daughter with her gran.

       Zoe Wallace has thousands of followers on TikTok, where she posts

       relatable videos about her life as a busy mum raising two children.

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       Zoe was targeted online by cruel trolls Credit: MEN Media 4

       Zoe was targeted online after posting about little Parker's sleepover at her gran's house Credit: MEN Media

       But one of her recent videos blew up on the social media platform,

       receiving more than seven million views and resulting in Zoe being the victim of a torrent of abuse.

       In it, the mum, from Leigh, Wigan, talks about her daughter Parker

       falling ill with RSV - or respiratory syncytial virus.

       RSV is a viral illness that causes symptoms such as breathing problems and can lead to more severe bronchiolitis and pneumonia in young babies.

       Zoe, 25, describes how Parker, who is now four months old, had to be moved from A&E to a high dependency unit where she was put on a machine to do the breathing for her.

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       In the video Zoe explains: "I hadn't held my baby for a week but doctors finally let me hold her.

       "After a week in hospital, they said I could finally bring my baby home. I feel very lucky that she is still here."

       The youngster was diagnosed with a severe chest infection but

       thankfully began to recover with the help of antibiotics.

       But cruel TikTok users accused the mum of neglect for letting Parker spend the night away from her at five-weeks-old, with one even telling the mum-of-two her daughter deserved to die.

       Online trolls blasted Zoe for letting Parker have her first sleepover at her grandmother's, who lives just a 10-minute car journey away.

       "Jesus, five weeks and you are done with it already?" said one. "Poor

       child isn't gonna grow up the best."

       "This is neglect," said another. "How could you do that to your newborn?"

       Zoe has since hit back at the "hurtful comments".

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       Zoe with her older brother Dominic, 3 Credit: MEN Media

       She said: "I posted the video originally to share my daughter’s story with RSV.

       "It made her very poorly and I was unaware how serious it could be in

       newborns.

       "I hadn’t even heard about it until she was poorly and I wanted to make other mums aware of the signs.

       "I had mentioned that she stayed with my mum the night before falling

       ill to show how quickly she declined but it wasn’t taken that way.

       "People in the comments have branded me a bad mum because of my

       decision to allow my mum to have my child over night."

       She said it was "pretty normal for new mums to get support in

       any way from family members," in her opinion.

       She explained: "I didn’t know it would be so controversial online."

       TORRENT OF TROLL ABUSE

       But she added: "I don’t regret sharing my daughter's story, because it could help save another child’s life."

       The 25-year-old, who also has a three-year-old son Dominic with

       partner David Hunt, 38, described some of the worst abuse she

       received.

       She said: "The most hurtful are that I’m neglecting my children, I’m a bad

       parent, that my daughter deserved to die, because she wouldn’t have

       bad parents.

       "The main hate I received was along the lines of 'how could you leave

       your baby'? It just shocked me how it’s encouraged as a new mum to

       accept help from people you trust, because it can be overwhelming, but

       as soon as you do it’s seen as neglectful.

       "I think the video going viral has proven the double standards for

       mums, there’s a lot of mum shaming and I don’t think it’s fair."

       Zoe, who is on maternity leave from her job at McDonald's, said she's

       been more willing to accept help from her mum with Parker as she was

       reluctant with Dominic despite suffering from postnatal depression.

       "Dave works in a warehouse and does 12-hour shifts so I'm on my own a

       lot of the time," she said.

       "My mum has always been very hands-on and involved. With Dominic I

       struggled lots and even though I had postnatal depression, I couldn't

       see it, and I wouldn't accept the offers of help.

       "This time I just thought if people are willing to help, then I'll accept it."

       Zoe first started posting videos to TikTok when lockdown began last

       year, and has now amassed 36k plus followers and 1.4m likes under her

       TikTok name ZoeWallaceYT.

       She says she won't let what's happened stop her from doing what she enjoys.

       She said: "Anything you put online is going to get criticised, but people don't

       have to be nasty about it when they give their opinion."

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       Zoe with little Parker, who is now much better, and son Dominic Credit: MEN Media