Monday, September 9, 2013

How to save your baby's life: EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THIS

Infants (under a year old) can choke and stop breathing if they swallow something larger than their tiny straw size air passage; THERE IS A WAY TO SAVE YOUR BABY from total abstraction! Learn the simple and proven way to make your baby breath until help comes to rescue. First hold the baby over your arm horizontal to the floor, next use your heal of your hand to give them 5 good solid back blows right between the shoulders, and then 5 compressions on the front of the chest with two fingers. You can do this sitting down. Check for the object to come out (the one that the infant swallowed). For a larger baby (1 year old or over) you can do the Heimlich maneuver by holding the baby from behind and doing the abdominal thrusts with less force than adults; get behind the baby at their level and thrust under their stomach. Guest speaker Mike Stillwagon; paramedic instructor for CPR demonstrating CPR FOR AN INFANT, first aid class for babies, video by BeautyHealthTravel channel.

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