TikTok star Abbie Herbert is counting her blessings this holiday season after the internet helped her with a "serious situation." "Social media saved my son from a very serious and very dangerous situation that I had no idea," Herbert shared in a TikTok shared on Wednesday, December 17. "If I did not share what I did on social media, this could have been very dangerous." Herbert explained that she "wanted to create vlogs every single day" beginning this month because it was "at the end" of her pregnancy - which is not her "typical content whatsoever." (Abbie and her husband, Josh Herbert, typically upload prank videos and humorous content to her 15.7 million TikTok followers and his 1.8 million.) "In one of my first or second vlogs, I included a clip where I'm just scratching my hands," Abbie said. "And then I started seeing comments of people saying if my hands are itchy and my feet are itchy, I needed to let my doctor know immediately. But I didn't think too much into it because it wasn't severely itchy. It was just a little scratch here, scratch there." TikToker Abby Howard Tearfully Recalls Learning About Her Miscarriage Abbie noted that users were "throwing out this word, cholestasis," which is defined by Mayo Clinic as a liver condition that can occur later in pregnancy. Symptoms tend to be "intense itching" but without a rash. "I had no idea. I was like, 'No, it's nothing,'" Herbert shared. Courtesy of Abbie Herbert/Instagram However, things changed when she noticed a rash on both of her palms after doing a photo shoot at her home. "I was not itchy whatsoever, but it looked like I had broken blood vessels all throughout my hands," she explained, noting that she took a picture of her palms and sent it to her doctor. "He immediately called me and said, 'We need to do some blood work on you.'" Why Matt, Abby Howard Won't Share Condition Their Baby Had Before Miscarriage Abbie explained that the test results took a couple of days to return to her, where they indicated her "levels were extremely high." When she texted her doctor the results, he explained that they were "going over a game plan right now" - where she was ultimately told to "get to the hospital now" to give birth at 37 weeks. "The fact that I wasn't extremely itchy and didn't have that extreme itch and I just had that little itch here," Abbie said, before itching her palm, "but how high my levels were, they were like, 'You have someone watching over you because that is a true miracle.' And the fact that I don't really make this type of content and I share that and you guys saw it, I would have never got checked. I would have never got blood work." She continued, "Obviously you don't wanna look into things, but things can turn very fast with cholestasis ... Levels can change every 24 hours. The higher they get, the more severe it gets with the baby placenta. And I could have gone 10 more days without knowing. I had no idea. I had no idea this existed." Abbie shared that it keeps "blowing [her] mind" that she "really didn't have that many symptoms" but her viewers caught on to it. TikTok Influencers Abby and Matt Howard Announce Pregnancy Loss "Makes me so emotional because I don't even want to think what could have happened if I didn't go get blood work," she said. "That's why I just wanna share my story. Because with pregnancy, there's so many things, so many things I did not know. Everyone in the hospital just kept saying, 'It's truly a miracle. It's just so crazy what happened.'" Abbie encouraged her followers to advocate for themselves when it comes to healthcare, noting that she was questioning whether she was "being annoying" for wondering about "a little couple dots" on her hand. "Thank you to every single person that told me to get checked," Abbie captioned the post. "I love you all so much and I'm so grateful to have this platform + followers like YOU." Abbie and Josh ultimately welcomed their third child, son Rocky Blue, earlier this month. The couple are also parents to daughter Poppy, 4, and son Jagger, 2.