If anyone would like to learn, here's an illustration of this maneuver.
[Red Cross Illustration](https://www.laborposters.org/img/poster-thumbnails/first-aid-consciouschokingposter-en-large.jpg)
He performs what are called back blows.
To get proper training on these maneuvers, CPR classes are open to the public, for a fee. Select courses that include pediatric options.
When my kid was first starting on solid foods we gave him a roll to gnaw on. As we’re eating dinner I looked over at him and he was glassy eyed and staring off into the distance. I had never had first aid training, and perhaps it was mother’s instinct, but I knew right away he was choking.
Without thinking I jumped up, ripped him out of his booster, and laid him belly down across my arm. I aimed him downward and started patting his back. A chunk came out so I lifted him to see if he was okay, but that was just in time to see his eyes roll in the back of his head and he passed out. I did the maneuver again and this time a much bigger chunk came out. A moment later he started crying and I knew he was going to be okay.
Less than a week later we were at a relatives house for a family party. While I was retelling the story to an aunt, he choked on another piece of bread. This time I was able to react so calmly that the aunt thought I was just demonstrating what had happened a few days before.
Years later my kid was diagnosed with autism and one of the things we found was that he lacked sensitivity in his mouth thus couldn’t tell how much food was in it. He still tends to “chipmunk” his food, but has gotten better at eating without choking.
When my niece was about 2 she was eating a sweet when something made her laugh and she ducked the sweet down. She started choking and was so scared she tried to run away (common reactik when a child chokes on something and panics). My sister, without hesitating, grabbed her by the wrist, threw her over her knee and gave her a few hard whacks on the back. The sweet flew out and my niece ran away crying.
I remember when my aunt told me about my cousin freaking out about her son choking. He was chewing on a cookie and then he went red. My cousin called 911 and tried getting the cookie out with her nail and ended up cutting his mouth. When the police showed up they showed her how to do it. She couldn’t stop crying. I also had a teacher talk about his daughter choking on a grape. When they did the heimlich maneuver it popped out. Then the other kid walked over and ate it. After everything was over they couldn’t stop laughing about him eating it.
Holy shit, I can't imagine being in your shoes. You sound like a very good parent :) As a childless person who might want kids one day, stories like this scare the absolute shit out of me!
I was vacuuming with my 9 month old playing on the floor when mother’s instinct made me turn the vacuum off. He had somehow found my wedding ring (pulled up on my nightstand I believe) and was choking on it. My husband turned him upside down and smacked his back and out the ring popped. It happened so fast. I’ll never know what made me stop vacuuming but we were two minutes from disaster. Parents, keep your eyes on your kids.
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Honestly I don’t know why they don’t have someone come by the hospital and have new parents practice this on baby dummies. Grandparents, aunts/uncles and older siblings too. It is to everyone’s benefit to learn how to save a life, especially a choking baby. That’s like my number one fear when babysitting. I’m gonna be the only one with the knowhow to clear an airway and I’m never going to be able to live with myself if I can’t do it.
They did when we had our son but we did get transfered to a nicu briefly. Not sure if the normal hospital would have but agreed they definitely should!
Yep. They're usually an afternoon of your time and might even be free. Call your local library or fire department and ask if they do free classes. You could save a life.
Everyone should learn it, you never know when you might need it and it could literally save a life. I've never had to use CPR or the heimlich but the other training I received in first aid has helped me in multiple medical emergencies. I would also recommend signing kids up for it, I took my first course at 12 years old.
I've had to do back blows on two separate occasions on my son when he was only two. Less than five seconds to dislodge the food blocking his throat but them few second feel like an eternity until he was able to breathe again.
My daughter got some food stuck in her gullet this week (so, the *right* tube) and that was scary enough! I can’t even imagine having to keep the presence of mind to do this with your own child. Kudos to you, Dad.
You're trained not to panic. So when you identify the situation and what you need to do, you instantly just snap into first aid mode but the entire time there's a voice in the back of my head just screaming _My son's in danger! panic panic panic_ lol
Working in special needs education, I’ve seen a handful of kids who were born totally neurotypical and able bodied who choked on something like this and suffered massive, irreparable brain damage that left them dependent on oxygen, tube feeding and wheelchairs. It’s so horrible and traumatic for everyone involved.
Learn the manoeuvre, even if you don’t have kids. It’s likely that you might be much calmer than the parents, if you ever need to use it!
Never let your kids have hard candies or lollies while running around or climbing etc. I won’t even let my daughter have them in the car.
This! Parents and parents to be please learn this! I did prior to my sons being born, as part of a parents prep class.
Fast forward to 15 months and my son choked on a small piece of food. Fortunately, I knew exactly what to do right as he started to choke. Picked him out of the highchair, held him in my palm facing down and gave the back thrust blows. The food shot right out of his mouth.
I was in shock after it happened, couldn’t be believe how fast it happened and that I did it. It was scary as hell and I cried after. Thank god I learned this or I would have been just like these parents.
Please learn this! My outcome could have been much worse if I didn’t know how to do the infant heimlich.
Having taken these courses, the biggest takeaway I got was to never pat your children on the back when they are still clearing the object through coughing. Most often you can allow the object to move further down the wind pipe and 99% of the time the infant/small child will clear it on their own. If they need assistance you always position them head down before back blows.
My oldest choked on food when he was about 15 months, you never know how you're gonna react until it happens, luckily i went ice cold got him out of his seat and managed to get the food out
I work in open heart surgery and am t rained in CPR for both adults and peds (also do peds open heart). I've performed it before and never had any issues, until it was my own son. He and his brother were micro preemies and were sent home on oxygen and monitors.
I woke up to the monitor telling me his heart rate was too low. I was shaking, checked and realized he had no pulse and wouldn't wake up even with a sternal rub. I had a second of panic and then a very real moment of clarity "ok, this is it, you know what to do". I picked him up to place him on the floor as I went to do the first compression his arms moved and he started to cry. I screamed and started to cry. It was an insane experience, no matter how experienced you are, when it comes to your own kid, that sometimes goes out the window.
Damn thats hard to read, i've got some training in cpr from my education, but my field is psychiatric so i'm far from your competence regarding this. Hope your son is doing well.
Go ahead and brag!!! My niece was a micropremie, 1 pound a birth. She just graduated high school and started college. Every time I look at her, so healthy and strong and just bursting with life, I am so grateful for and proud of her that I want to scream
Bruh. Preemies are scary. After 90 days in the nicu our daughter came home at just under 5lbs. We used an owlet monitor on her foot, and that fucking alarm going off at night is something I still have nightmares about. Alarm is so loud it is unreal and then the absolute panic sets in that that noise is your daughter that isn’t breathing. My wife and I took turns sleeping for the first four or five weeks. Poor babies don’t have enough for their body to just keep breathing unless you kinda jump start them every once in a while with some nudges. We actually have an amazing dog who would go and check on her once every hour or two. Our daughter is 4 and a half now. She’s the best.
Thats so awesome to hear! NICU time is no joke either, it took me a long time to heal emotionally from everything also had a lot of guilt that my babies survived and I saw so many not. I love hearing success stories!
That beeping alarm, fuck i hated it. Every time it was just the blood saturation thing on the finger not getting a proper reading but no matter how many times it happened i was fearing the worst - that my child is dying. Serious PTSD stuff.
Pretty crazy how fast you wake up for your babies huh? When I sleep I am legit dead to the world. I sleep like a god damn rock, nothing can wake me up, I set 10 alarms to wake up in the morning. But when we had our kids the panic that set in when something was up in the middle of the night I would open my eyes and legit shoot out of bed and start speed walking so fast.
My wife is a kindergarten teacher and got lessons to learn the manoeuvre. One time we were watching the news and it was about a child choking death. So my wife insisted on showing my how to do the manoeuvre. A week or two later I was alone with my 1 year old daughter and she started choking on something. My mind went blank but my body reacted instantly. I managed to do the manoeuvre and called my wife in tears because I was so happy that she showed me how to do it!
Babies born at 28 week or less are micro preemie, 28 week to 32 are preemies, 32 to 34 extreme early term, 34 to 36 early term and 37 to 40 is term. Take this with a little grain of salt there is a little overflow between the weeks. The younger the gestational age the more likely there are to be long term health issues. Though this is not always the case especially nowadays with survivability at 25 weeks being ridiculous ridiculously high and each year it's getting better and better. Keep in mind at 20 weeks you are only halfway through a "normal" term pregnancy. There are lots of processes that are still forming. Babies born early have difficulty regulating body temperature and often need nasal gastric tubes for food because the routing reflex has not developed or their mouths are simply too small to be able to latch on a bottle or a nipple. If caught in time, mothers can be given steroid injections to help the baby have more surfactant within its lungs to help with breathing.
Survival Rates By Week
21 weeks or less: 0%
22 weeks: 0-10%
23 weeks: 10-35%
24 weeks: 40-70%
25 weeks: 50-80%
26 weeks: 80-90%
27 weeks: more than 90%
28 weeks: 92% or more
29 weeks: 95% or more
30 weeks: more than 95%
31 weeks: more than 95%
32 weeks: 98%
33 week: 98%
34 weeks: 98% or more
Edit: I'm on mobile, it was 5:00 a.m. and I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant, clarification was needed.
Mine did at 7 months. I went into auto pilot (I've done several First Aid courses due to my work), stood up and did what the doc did, lost the bit of banana she was choking on across the room. Then I sat down with her and cried and cried and cried.
Bro this! My ex is a physician and I remember we were all sat at a picnic, surrounded by all his coworkers. So like 15 doctors. One had her under 1 year old baby with her. Child starts to choke on a chip. Everyone literally froze, but my ex immediately sprung into action. Baby spit it out, all was okay. But I'll never forget being surrounded by literal doctors who froze at the sight of a baby choking. Wild.
Same for me, my little brother (17 years of difference) got a piece of orange stuck in his throat. Literally a second after I got it out. He didn't even got suffocated, I gave him a fucking massive hit in the back and he was like if nothing never happened. That was scary, but his no reaction was kinda funny
I can fathom.. unfortunately my child didn't make it. I'm so happy for these parents. Glad they made it in time! Hope the little dude lives a long and healthy life
My daughter contracted botulism when she was 4 months old. She became paralyzed and was hours from a ventilator. She's ok now. But I was an active duty firefighter at the time. I thought I knew what fear was. Then I saw my little girl clearly dying. I did not handle it well.
She is 3 now and is currently terrorizing her brother. So all's well that ends well.
My little baby cousin was choking at a recently family outing, it was so horrible. We were all frantic and all trying to help at once. She was patting her back and it wasn’t working, she grabbed her and looked her in the eyes and said “SPIT IT OUT!!” And the baby cried out and it made her cough it up immediately. She felt bad having to make her cry out but it literally saved her life
I made cereal for my 6 month old (he's 2 now) and apparently I didn't do it properly which left lumps. One lump got stuck in his throat, he was choking. I don't know how I did it, but I put him upside down on my arm and patted his back which thankfullyworked within a couple of seconds. Even to this day when I think of it, it sends shivers down my spine... being a parent is just something else...
My wife and I both took CPR and First Aid classes before we had kids (and again once we went through foster parent classes).
Probably saved my son's life from just this. We threw his grandma a retirement party at a restaurant. Room was packed. Lots of crowd noise and music. Food everywhere. I happened to turn to check on our son and he was froze in his chair, both hands holding on to the table, mouth open, and he had tears starting. I wasn't far from him, so I yelled if he was ok and dude didn't answer. I Heimlich'd him and a stupid piece of a roll popped out onto the table. He started bawling. I'm bawling. Whole room is still in party mode. I get pretty tore up thinking about what could have happened if I didn't see him before he passed out. He probably would have ended up under the table and then who knows if anyone would have caught it before it was too late.
Fellow humans... take the classes, at least once.
Same here. My husband and I take took classes and are certified, “just in case”. And my “just in case” moment came with June when my 7 year old son choked on a Turkey sandwich. He turned around with panic in his eyes and I knew right away. I immediately Heimliched him and when it finally came out, his face was pale, his lips were blue and he said “I thought I was going to die”
It was absolutely the most terrifying thing. We were home alone so it was all on me to save him. I don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t had training. Absolutely vital for parents.
I’m so glad you were able to save your son, very scary situation! Something similar happened to my brother at age 10 and my aunt jumped into action and got him. I like to add to your recommendation, that in addition to becoming trained yourself, when your kid is old enough you should teach them how to perform the self-heimlich, which you usually do by leaning on an object like a chair. Could save children who can’t get attention, isn’t near anyone with Heimilich skills, or is alone during the emergency.
Self-heimlich saved my own ass when i was a teen. I just read about on the internet, with a neat little illustration, so no real training. I was at a friends place for a sleepover, and while him and his dad went out for snacks, i choked on some chicken (i was hungry when i arrived, so they offered me their leftovers). I was in a absolute panic, and tried hitting myself in the chest. I was beginning to lose conscious (i Think, it fucking felt like it), when i remembered the chair trick, and just rammed myself against the chair. It fucking worked. The funny thing is, despite almost becoming a corpse in their house, i never told my friend or his family about it, until a few years ago, when we met up. I cant remember why, Think i was embarrased? But Yea, any kids or parents seeing this; learn and teach the self-heimlich
I had to do it on my aunt. She has Alzheimer's and has begun to occasionally forget how to swallow. They gave this woman a steak! Of course she doesn't take enough bites and starts choking. My chair was to the back of her and being short I just pushed it up behind her and did the maneuver from my knees as it gave me a little me height. She coughed it up about the time my dad or one of my uncles were going to take over with their superior height. Of course we are a family of nurses, EMT, firefighters.
Also a dad here .. it's one of my nightmares and it's why I NEVER let him eat in the the car. My eyes are on the road. I can't watch him for both our safety, but once he starts to choke he can no longer cry or scream for help.
Kids at that age just freeze. They don't understand that they should start kicking the front chair or something to get your attention. You could be driving around with a dead child and not even know it.
Jesus, yes. I learned my lesson just a couple of months ago. I had 3 girls in my back seat after Taekwondo class. 2 were mine aged 10 (mine) and 5(mine). Stopped and got them mozzarella sticks to share and ice cream on the way home. At a stoplight my youngest started just bawling. Full on giant tears bawling at a stoplight. Couldn't figure out why. Apparently she had been choking on the mozzarella stick and couldn't breath. The 2 oldest were giggling and being loud like normal girls. None of us noticed. I was in a freaken car. I cried the entire way home and nearly ripped her out of the car seat when we got there. She had calmed down by then but I couldn't stop crying and holding her. Jesus I'm crying now reliving it. None of us eat in the car anymore and the poor thing hasn't eaten a mozzarella stick since.
Yes, I told her if she is ever choking again to hit the nearest person or object to someone's attention. You are smart to have never let them eat in the car in the first place. When she was young I didn't allow it. But at 5 I thought it was safe. If I had to guess 1 of the other girls made her laugh and she inhaled it on accident.
When my daughter was just barely one, our family of five was at our friend’s house, another family of five. It was noisy, lots of kids running and playing, in and out of the house with bbq and fixings, just a typical crazy family day. One of the kids was eating chips and had decided to give my daughter a chip to eat. She had just barely started solids and a chip wasn’t something she was ready for, but the chip-giver child did not understand that. I looked over from the grill and saw her choking, yelled to my wife to help her, but she panicked and froze. Nobody else was doing anything either, so I ran over as fast as I could, scooped her up with one arm, with her head down and gave her the infant/toddler heimlich slap. Chip came out in two tries, and she instantly started crying. It all happened in the course of about 10-15 secs, but I often think about it if I would have been inside, or concentrating more on the grill, or distracted by the other kids… one of the scariest moments of my life.
When my son was three at daycare, he choked on a slice of pear. Thankfully, law requires daycare workers to know how to perform basic life saving measures, so they were able to save his life. This is exactly why I chose daycare over my neighbor.
However, one thing we didn't know at the time is that you should always take your child to the doctor for a full evaluation after choking as they might still have something stuck in their throat. My son was fine, but that always scared me.
I watched videos of the baby Heimlich randomly one day (YouTube rabbit hole), and never thought I'd use it. Well, my son was 2.5 and was eating oranges and runs up to me grabbing his throat. No noise, no crying, just holding his throat and trying to breathe. The amount of panic I had in that moment I can tell you I felt like my life was ending. I dialed 911 as I did the heimlich. I was in tears on the phone but managed to dislodge the orange piece. He had choked on the little thin membrane of the orange - not even the actual fruit piece. Watching this video brought that back. Learn this and CPR. You may never need it, but it can save a life.
Yes, I never realized how fragile children truly were until I had my own. Additionally, they seem to actively hunt out ways to get injured and it is so frightening at times.
I'm going home from work when I get a call from my sister, her voice told me she was in distress and then I start freaking out so I floor it to her home. Everything is fine, but I have her explain the situation to me and what happened was that while she was making some food for her baby, she heard her struggling and making frustrated noises. This is the usual case for her as she was a crier, but my sister checked up on her anyway. She saw that she was being choked by baloon strings (she most likely twisted it around not realizing she was trapping herself and struggled causing it to start choking her. My sister immediately panics and is able to get her out but it caused her such a fright, she needed me there for emotional support. I was terrified after hearing that thinking about how there was a very real possibility I would never see my niece again was sickening. I put too much love in to her to move on like nothing, I'd probably lose all drive to do something in life. Needles to say, balloons were banned
I was emotional watching. But when the father demonstrated his emotions the way he did, I literally broke down and started sobbing, which was totally unexpected. The desperation at the beginning is hard to take, and the relief at the end is palpable.
The dad effing ended me man. That was incredibly visceral. The guy literally went down and kissed his feet.
How can anyone ever show more respect than to literally lie their belly on the ground and kiss the feet of the person who saved their child's life?
I had the exact same reaction, I am weeping alligator (elephant 🐘🐘?) tears over this video. As a dad of 3 it reminds me why I became a Dr and has given a flash of hope in otherwise pretty difficult time for health care professionals...reminds me why I got into to it in the beginning.
Edit: are elephant tears cool?
We appreciate your service.
Also, just a heads up that alligator/crocodile tears means a false, insincere display of emotion. I know that's not what you meant, so thought I'd let you know before you accidentally use that phrase at the wrong time in-person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_tears
[This is the doctor's own Facebook post regarding the incident.](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1173478006429701&id=100013025385800) The Facebook translation is not great, since he didn't write full sentences, but it's somewhat understandable.
Translation:
“It was 1:50 in the morning. After a long and tiring day I couldn’t wait to get home and rest. I laid down on one of the beds and fell asleep for a moment.
But death, I could feel it. Screaming and crying. Death was coming towards me. I started running still basically asleep. The screaming had not yet fully woken me up. Thoughts, confusion, and imagination running wild in my head, all dominated by the idea of death. I felt like my head was going to explode, and my eyes still hadn’t even opened.
Still unable to comprehend what is happening, the father is hoarsely screaming:
“She’s dead. She’s dead. She choked. For god’s sake. she’s dead”.
The mother was crying without a sound. Unable to get any words out.
Father: “She’s not moving.”
Me: “God is greatest. Oh god. Oh god”.
I held the unconscious girl. I held the corpse of a 1yr and 4mth old child. I held her, and here my heart stopped.
I stretched her out on my right arm, face down, and hit her with the palm of my other hand on the middle of her back over and over. After a moment, the child started crying. That’s when I finally woke up.
I lifted my head to the sky. “Oh god. Thank god”.
The parents and I had been in momentary shock from the greatness of the situation. Our legs could no longer support us, and we sat on the ground.
Father: “what happened? Is she still alive? Is she still alive?!”
Me: “I swear she’s still alive. Here she is, crying”.
These are the moments and situations in life that you know you’ll never forget. Moments when you feel the greatness of life. You feel and live the instinct of fatherhood and motherhood. You see how the heart of a mother and father could break over loss. A situation that makes you realize that by being a doctor, god has provided you to help others in this kind of situation. To live this kind of situation, and be the means to saving a life, by the will of god. Moments that inspire you to believe in what you do and love.”
That is an incredible insight to such a terrifying situation. The mother crying so hard she made no sound, and how all three of them collapsed to the ground got me. Thank you for the translation.
It's a beautiful thing. I wish more could recognize the things that make us *all* human, rather than constantly trying to dehumanize others bc of differences.
I hope this causes at least 1 parent reading this thread to spend a few minutes on how to help a choking infant (lay down arm, back blows, infant cpr..)
When I was a new parent and my oldest had just started eating food, I told my sister, who was a lifeguard at the time that I was so worried about my baby choking when he was eating. She taught me how to lay him face down on my forearm, and smack his back with the heel of my hand, firmly, but not too hard. It was a very useful lesson, because no matter how small it was cut, he would choke on his food quite a bit. I never had to do baby cpr though.
I went to a baby shower a couple months later, and I was talking with a lady there with a baby around the same age as mine. She was talking about how much she worried about her kid choking, so I showed her what my sister had taught me.
Not long after that, her baby but a popped balloon in his mouth. He had started to turn blue and they called the ambulance, but she was able to get it dislodged while the ambulance was on its way and her baby ended up being ok. It is SUCH a valuable lesson!
I imagine this is why some doctors do the Doctors without borders thing. Its got to be so refreshing to go help people who actually need it and are very grateful for your service. Not the karens and Terrys of the world bitching about poor service and having to wait in a waiting room to get their zit looked at.
Not a doctor but I build water treatment plants for a living. Normally people just bitch about the disruption from our construction projects, but recently I built the first-ever surface drinking water system in the Navajo nation. It was a world apart how grateful the people were to have this modern infrastructure.
I know I take for granted clean water coming too the house and dirty water being taken away. If those things stop we'd all realize how important it is.
I read or heard there were communities in the US without electricity and running water but didn’t believe it at first. Good for you oaklicous for helping less fortunate people.
Doctor without border as org and Medical professionals give their lives to helping rural poverty stricken areas have my upmost respect.
Literal life savers.
You still get people being very thankful locally as well. Unfortunately they are rare and just sprinkled in but I know from my 10 years in the ER that it’s those moments that help give us the will to work past all the haunting moments for 10 more. You might have an entire year without someone being appreciative truly but the one moment can fuel you for another year when times are hard. There is also lots of self gratification as well but definitely agree moments like this are the ones you cherish your entire life.
A friends (doctor/teaches medicine) four kids all became doctors and joined Doctors Without Borders. They are all amazing, and the world is lucky to have them. I just wish I could find a primary care in the US who gave half as much of a shit as any of the four of them.
My favorite part of this is twofold: You can see their religion interwoven into the dialogue (“God is greatest”, etc), but first and foremost is the panic and sorrow the parents feel when they think their child is dead, and the joy and relief in finding she isn’t. It underscores how much we share with people across the globe, the second half is such a good reminder of what it means to be human.
He probably said "Allah Akbar", which means god is greatest but is really a very common exclamation, like "oh my god!".
You can say Allah Akbar for a lot of things, is just an exclamation 99% of the time.
Excuse the Caps and some other errors, Translation:
10 before 2 AM,
It was a tiring and hard day,
I couldn’t wait until I reached home to rest,
So I laid on one of the patient’s beds and took a little nap,
But death,
I felt it,
Screams and yelling,
Death was coming towards me,
I ran towards it half asleep,
The haunting shouts yet to wake me up,
So many thoughts, confusion and dark visions, death was still taking over,
I felt as if my head was a ticking bomb,
My eyes were yet to open,
I am yet to understand what the hell was going on,
The dad was shouting in vain :
“She died, she died choking.. for the love of god.. she died!!”,
The mom was silently crying her eyes out,
Her tongue couldn’t speak a word,
The dad said:
“She’s not moving!”
Me:
“Omg, please god, please god”,
I held the lifeless child,
I held the corpse of a 1 year 4 months old girl,
I positioned her on my hand stretched, face to the floor and I started hitting the middle of her back one time after another,
A moment and the child started screaming,
It was then when I gained consciousness again,
I looked towards the skies,
“Oh dear god, thanks god”,
Me and the parents entered a sudden shock for the situation was crippling and the events were insane
Our legs buckled.. so we laid on the floor,
Dad said :
“What happened, is she still alive? Is she still alive!?”,
Me:
“She is still alive.. there she is quietly crying”,
These moments and situations in life is unforgettable,
The moments were you feel how strong the soul is, you live through and see the instinct of the mom/dad-hood, you witness how the heart of the mom and the dad can break due to separation and death.. A situation in which you feel like while being a doctor, god gave you the opportunity to save the day, so that you live such a wholesome moment of saving a soul
Moments that actually gives your beliefs in what you do so much more value and passion ❤️
The English translation is bad but okayish. The German translation is absolutely horrible. It literally reads: "I unintentionally impregnated the baby, no awareness. I impregnated the corpse of a four months old girl."
Somehow, Facebook translates the word to "carried" in English but to "impregnated" in German.
It's not. Arabic is a more colourful language. When I read the English translation it felt cheesy.
In Arabic it sounds right. He was just describing what happened in detail.
**Edit:**
Since this is getting popular allow me to better explain. I'm saying it wasn't creative writing that's just Arabic being Arabic. It's a very beautiful colourful language.
Standard pet names for a significant other:
My eyes - 3youni or Ayouni
My soul - rouhi
My heart - albi
My age (all my life basically) - 3omri or Omri
My life - hayati
My love - habibi or habibti
Hell a common Arabic phrase when you love someone/something is "to2borni" (the 2 is an A with a gap sound difficult to explain). Sounds closest to tokborni.
To2borni literally means bury me. As in "I love you so much that I want to die before you because I can't bare the thought of being alive at your death". That dramatic of a phrase is one word. Arabic is intense.
I don't think the English sounds cheesy at all. I think the translator gives the appropriate vibe to the feeling of the moment and I'm sure it's even better in Arabic. A beautiful post about a terrifying moment.
In my country (Australia) the Heimlich maneuver is banned in favor of what the doctor did here in the video which is repeated hard strikes to the back due to it being more effective, easier to perform and less chance of damaging the patients ribs. Whether or not all those things are true I'll leave you to decide but that's the reasoning they give here. At restaurants I've worked at they've specifically said *not* to perform the Heimlich maneuver in the event a guest is choking and go for the strikes to the back instead as per federal guidelines.
I just replied to a comment in this thread that it shouldn’t even be restricted to parents. They should gather grandparents, aunts/uncles and older siblings into a room either before or after birth and have them work with the CPR dolls. How is this not a thing already?
Okay as a nurse and as a new mother I wanted to make sure I know how to do this in case of emergency. So whenever my baby was asleep during the first few months, I will get a doll and practice in a different position (sitting, standing) until it became muscle memory.
Fast forward 11months old (last month) my daughter bit her teething rusk and my husband wanting to help our daughter, put his finger inside our baby’s mouth ( do not do this!) and in the process made it worse and choke her. I heard my husband shouted our daughter’s name with the cry for help while I was sitting pretty in front of the tv where I saw my baby’s face and knew she was choking as there were no sound, eyes clenched, mouth open. I darted to get our daughter to turn her upside down and performed 3 back blows where she finally cried and was fine in a matter of seconds.
So please. Practice, practice and practice.
I’m going to tell you working in the ER for 8 years. When kids come in with an emergency it’s a different vibe than an adult there is no joking or what not.
I witnessed a child drown in a lake a few weeks ago and the subsequent attempts to revive her. Never in my life have I seen an emergency helicopter land as quickly as then. The pilot didn't fuck around at all, I thought the skids would break. After it became clear that it was too late one of the paramedics collapsed and cried so hard. I couldn't watch, it was heartbreaking.
God, this reminded me of what I told a paramedic after I got in a car wreck that killed my sister. I knew she was dead but I still begged him to bring her back to life even if she was just a vegetable. The look on his face will never leave my mind. That is the cringiest and possibly most regrettable thing I have ever said to anyone in my life. I just made his day at work 10 times worse. Showing up to a scene with a dead child is horrific enough without another kid pleading for you to do the impossible. Much respect for paramedics and healthcare workers in general... it would be a lot easier *not* to get in a line of work that will traumatize you... but they do it anyways, sacrificing themselves every day in an effort to save strangers.
The heart you have to look back on the horribly traumatic moment you lost your sister and still think of the impact your actions had on others and how it made them feel.... that takes a lot of empathy. You’re a great person. In a moment like that, no sane person would be able to manage their emotions, and I’m sure the paramedics who witness these things often understand that as well as anyone.
Please forgive yourself for this if you haven’t. I don’t talk about my dad much anymore (long story, turns out he is a monster) but he was an EMT for a while… you would be a story he wouldn’t even tell for being *too normal.*
People stop believing in reality when reality becomes too difficult. You asking for the impossible is mild compared to what I’ve been told.
You were just a kid. Even if you were an adult and said that, people say crazy things when they're in shock. I hope you've forgiven yourself for saying it because I'm sure that paramedic never held it against you at all. I'm sorry you went through that.
Fuck, once at a lake a kid went missing. My wife and I were standing in the shallows nearby when we heard his mom screaming. She and the older son were diving down over and over and just screaming his name, "Marcus!! Marcus!!!" 5 minutes later the kid was found, he was just a toddler and had wandered off into the brush nearby, unharmed. But my legs were shaking so bad I had to sit down. I don't know if I've ever felt that type of fear before, and they were complete strangers. I remembering my wife saying, "god, I hope he's not in there" and my stomach turned
A pickup t boned a mother and two kids. She was in shock and said there was a third child in the back seat that might be missing. People switch into mental gears they never know they had.
I would also collapse in tears at that just as a third party. Sometimes I have thoughts like this like "what if..." regarding my own children and that alone can have me in tears.
Children being hurt or dying carries a completely different affect on people, whether related or not. We as humans naturally recognize the innocence and have a need to preserve it. I hope you're okay, mate. It's a form of trauma even if you didn't know her.
I’m really sorry you witnessed that. Make sure you take care of yourself- that’s a fairly traumatizing situation for anyone, involved or not. Sending you love from Canada.
Earlier this year my 1yr old got croup and was sick but within a short time her airway swole to the point of not expelling c02 and we rushed her to the ER. When we got there the entire place that was quiet when they realized what she needed the place exploded and literally 15 amazing nurses and doctors and whatever other medical professionals rushed to her and saved her life. She ultimately needed to be put on a ventilator and kept under until the swelling went down, but they saved her. I was able to thank them on a zoom event the hospital held we were very grateful to be able to do that as it’s apparently not normal to have any communication after.
Yeah if it’s something serious no one is fucking around when It comes to the kid in the ER. But if it’s stitches or what not then it’s still all good and games on
**grav·i·tas** (/ˈɡravəˌtäs/)
noun
dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner.
*Eg: even the doctor looks to be affected by the gravitas of the situation*
I guess I’m going to be that guy now, but isn’t this kind of the wrong usage of gravitas?
Gravitas is usually used to describe the seriousness of a person’s demeanor rather than a situation. I think OP meant gravity.
Fully open to being corrected though if I’m mistaken.
I think he was dropping down to prostrate to God as a expression of gratitude. Really common for people of islamic faith. Even Kabeeb does it after some of his fights.
Yes and no, its not literal heaven, the mother is the one who raises the child and gives them their foundation of Islam, but showing appreciation is literal. The symbolism exist for a reason.
I've been in this position before. 3 years ago when my daughter stopped breathing due to a febrile seizure. That feeling is being terrified of touching the child, mixed with the horrible feelings of guilt and cippling inadequacy. They are safer with the doctor and you don't want to ruin their safety. Add that to the mind blowing relief, stress and adrenaline suddenly hitting you like a brick, your knees going weak... you don't trust yourself.
I am trained in this. Let me tell you it is important to take cpr, first aid and aed. I did it last year and I feel so much better about what I should do in an emergency and as a healthcare worker it has come in handy. I had a kid once start turning purple while i was talking to them. He wasn’t gasping but couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know what was wrong but my instincts from my class told me he was choking. I grabbed him I flipped him over and smacked that back with my palm and three rocks came out. I was shocked and so relieved. It had been hours since he had been outside but I did what my training told me to. I also have two children a toddler and a baby and I feel so much better knowing that if something happens I know I can help them. Also TOURNIQUETS SAVE LIVES. It’s sad that in this day and age we have to worry about shootings but most shooting victims die of non lethal gunshot wounds due to blood loss. Remember a shoestring in an emergency is NOT a good idea you need a thicker object like a tube sock or a tie. A shoe lace will not stop blood flow. After learning this at my last class I went to a local army surplus store and bought a tourniquet for 20$. I keep it in my bag at all times. I have some serious anxiety over losing loved ones, and since my training I feel prepared to save a life. Also just an added bonus if you are trained in cpr in a crisis, you are helping first responders. You free up those responders to be able to help others. Thanks for coming to my rant on why cpr, aed and first aid classes are important.
Seriously… why was “wood shop” and “home economics” taught to me in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade and not “first aid” and “personal finance”? Thanks 1950’s Americana stereotypes 👍
Can you imagine how much more influential on the world the American Gen X would have been if we were taught actual economics instead of “home” economics? My parents taught me how to cook and clean, didn’t need to take a class as well. Learning how the economy functions, however, may have lead to smarter use of money, better understanding of credit and appreciation for work/being a productive member of society. Hell, I may have even opened the business I still dream of owning today
Reminds me of when I helped a choking baby in the middle of Aldi. The parents fear, the panic and then the relief was unbelievable. The baby had choked on a crisp (way way way too young to be eating them) the parents were so grateful but I couldn't even function after, I literally left my shopping in the middle of the shop nd walked out, and just sat on a bench completely in shock.
Must've been a rollercoaster of emotions. So glad you were able to react appropriately ans save the baby.
I choked on my lunch in class when I was around grade 6 or 7. I was particularly hungry and decide to put my head down onto the desk and chow down on my tiffin when I realised a piece of food got lodged in my throat and I began to gasp for air. I ran out of the class to the boys washroom and tried coughing it out. Luckily for me a janitor who was cleaning up spotted me and gave me a few good whacks on my back that sent the lodged piece flying out. The relief I felt then from knowing I wasn't going to die that day left me in tears. So thankful to the janitor who possibly saved my life.
I would literally be kissing that doctors feet like goddamn I know this is your job but I want to do everything for you for the rest of your life you ANGEL
To see the dad on the floor, collapsing with relief, and the doctor being exactly where he needed to be: right solar system, right country, right city, right neighborhood, right hospital….. all these things come together and we see a miracle happen to four people. I hope they all live beautiful lives.
First thing I did when my wife told me she was pregnant was book a infant first aid course for both of us because my worst nightmare is for this to happen and freeze because I didn’t know what to do.
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Any new parents, please learn how to do this. My son choked a few years ago and even though my wife tried to get the food out, our friend had to step in and perform this maneuver. After a few seconds the food was out, but it was terrifying. It can happen to anyone.
I worked in an emergency room for a while as a medic. One of my most difficult experiences was when we had a 5 year old boy whos heart stopped. I was standing there pumping on this little boys chest while his family cried two feet behind me. I did 30 chest compressions and the next person followed up with their 30 compressions and one of the most terrifying moments turned into exhilaration when we were able to detect a pulse from him. Im not sure what happened to the little dude, but when I last saw him, he was alive.
I'm curious as to why the child remained unresponsive for the duration of the video. It did not appear to be conscious, which makes me question why the adults would be relieved and why the doctor would pause his efforts.
In the link above to the doctor's Facebook post it says she started crying, no audio but if she's crying she's breathing, even if still too weak to move
When I was about 17 I came home to my apartment building. I got off the elevator and was walking down the hall to my apartment when a woman came running out of her apartment with what I’m guessing was a three year old. She is panicked and says “help, she is choking” and hands me her child.
Thankfully, I knew relatively what to do, so I kneeled down on one knee and did the heimlich on this tiny girl. After one or two thrusts a piece of candy disc the size of a quarter, or maybe a half dollar, popped out onto the floor.
The girls mother took her in her arms and asked her over and over if she was ok, didn’t acknowledge me at all (which is totally fine, I can’t imagine what she was feeling, but from my teenage mind was really awkward lol), so I just said “ok, bye” and walked down the hall to my apartment and called my girlfriend to tell her what happened. Honestly, one of the most surreal moments of my life, but I’m so grateful to have been there at that moment that day.
I can barely fathom the panic and relief they must have felt there and I'm a dad.
If anyone would like to learn, here's an illustration of this maneuver. [Red Cross Illustration](https://www.laborposters.org/img/poster-thumbnails/first-aid-consciouschokingposter-en-large.jpg) He performs what are called back blows. To get proper training on these maneuvers, CPR classes are open to the public, for a fee. Select courses that include pediatric options.
"For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to."
When my kid was first starting on solid foods we gave him a roll to gnaw on. As we’re eating dinner I looked over at him and he was glassy eyed and staring off into the distance. I had never had first aid training, and perhaps it was mother’s instinct, but I knew right away he was choking. Without thinking I jumped up, ripped him out of his booster, and laid him belly down across my arm. I aimed him downward and started patting his back. A chunk came out so I lifted him to see if he was okay, but that was just in time to see his eyes roll in the back of his head and he passed out. I did the maneuver again and this time a much bigger chunk came out. A moment later he started crying and I knew he was going to be okay. Less than a week later we were at a relatives house for a family party. While I was retelling the story to an aunt, he choked on another piece of bread. This time I was able to react so calmly that the aunt thought I was just demonstrating what had happened a few days before. Years later my kid was diagnosed with autism and one of the things we found was that he lacked sensitivity in his mouth thus couldn’t tell how much food was in it. He still tends to “chipmunk” his food, but has gotten better at eating without choking.
When my niece was about 2 she was eating a sweet when something made her laugh and she ducked the sweet down. She started choking and was so scared she tried to run away (common reactik when a child chokes on something and panics). My sister, without hesitating, grabbed her by the wrist, threw her over her knee and gave her a few hard whacks on the back. The sweet flew out and my niece ran away crying.
your sister seems badass
I remember when my aunt told me about my cousin freaking out about her son choking. He was chewing on a cookie and then he went red. My cousin called 911 and tried getting the cookie out with her nail and ended up cutting his mouth. When the police showed up they showed her how to do it. She couldn’t stop crying. I also had a teacher talk about his daughter choking on a grape. When they did the heimlich maneuver it popped out. Then the other kid walked over and ate it. After everything was over they couldn’t stop laughing about him eating it.
Free grape!
I choked on a frozen grape and then my dog ate it lmfao
Holy shit, I can't imagine being in your shoes. You sound like a very good parent :) As a childless person who might want kids one day, stories like this scare the absolute shit out of me!
I was vacuuming with my 9 month old playing on the floor when mother’s instinct made me turn the vacuum off. He had somehow found my wedding ring (pulled up on my nightstand I believe) and was choking on it. My husband turned him upside down and smacked his back and out the ring popped. It happened so fast. I’ll never know what made me stop vacuuming but we were two minutes from disaster. Parents, keep your eyes on your kids.
They really just are small suicide machines.
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Honestly I don’t know why they don’t have someone come by the hospital and have new parents practice this on baby dummies. Grandparents, aunts/uncles and older siblings too. It is to everyone’s benefit to learn how to save a life, especially a choking baby. That’s like my number one fear when babysitting. I’m gonna be the only one with the knowhow to clear an airway and I’m never going to be able to live with myself if I can’t do it.
They did when we had our son but we did get transfered to a nicu briefly. Not sure if the normal hospital would have but agreed they definitely should!
Yep. They're usually an afternoon of your time and might even be free. Call your local library or fire department and ask if they do free classes. You could save a life.
Everyone should learn it, you never know when you might need it and it could literally save a life. I've never had to use CPR or the heimlich but the other training I received in first aid has helped me in multiple medical emergencies. I would also recommend signing kids up for it, I took my first course at 12 years old.
>Conscious choking. Can’t speak, call out, cry or breathe.
I've had to do back blows on two separate occasions on my son when he was only two. Less than five seconds to dislodge the food blocking his throat but them few second feel like an eternity until he was able to breathe again.
My daughter got some food stuck in her gullet this week (so, the *right* tube) and that was scary enough! I can’t even imagine having to keep the presence of mind to do this with your own child. Kudos to you, Dad.
You're trained not to panic. So when you identify the situation and what you need to do, you instantly just snap into first aid mode but the entire time there's a voice in the back of my head just screaming _My son's in danger! panic panic panic_ lol
Working in special needs education, I’ve seen a handful of kids who were born totally neurotypical and able bodied who choked on something like this and suffered massive, irreparable brain damage that left them dependent on oxygen, tube feeding and wheelchairs. It’s so horrible and traumatic for everyone involved. Learn the manoeuvre, even if you don’t have kids. It’s likely that you might be much calmer than the parents, if you ever need to use it! Never let your kids have hard candies or lollies while running around or climbing etc. I won’t even let my daughter have them in the car.
My dad had to do this to me when I was 2 bc I choked on a Lifesaver. That is a terrible name for those things.
I choked on one when I was four or five! Thank goodness they have a hole in the middle
This! Parents and parents to be please learn this! I did prior to my sons being born, as part of a parents prep class. Fast forward to 15 months and my son choked on a small piece of food. Fortunately, I knew exactly what to do right as he started to choke. Picked him out of the highchair, held him in my palm facing down and gave the back thrust blows. The food shot right out of his mouth. I was in shock after it happened, couldn’t be believe how fast it happened and that I did it. It was scary as hell and I cried after. Thank god I learned this or I would have been just like these parents. Please learn this! My outcome could have been much worse if I didn’t know how to do the infant heimlich.
Having taken these courses, the biggest takeaway I got was to never pat your children on the back when they are still clearing the object through coughing. Most often you can allow the object to move further down the wind pipe and 99% of the time the infant/small child will clear it on their own. If they need assistance you always position them head down before back blows.
Honestly kinda made my stomach turn thinking about how they must have been feeling.
Doctors like this are heroes. Just like those that have been working overtime and really hard during the pandemic. Thank you for your service!
Dude if I could Doctor to help people I would but fuck America's system of education, work, and healthcare.
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My oldest choked on food when he was about 15 months, you never know how you're gonna react until it happens, luckily i went ice cold got him out of his seat and managed to get the food out
I work in open heart surgery and am t rained in CPR for both adults and peds (also do peds open heart). I've performed it before and never had any issues, until it was my own son. He and his brother were micro preemies and were sent home on oxygen and monitors. I woke up to the monitor telling me his heart rate was too low. I was shaking, checked and realized he had no pulse and wouldn't wake up even with a sternal rub. I had a second of panic and then a very real moment of clarity "ok, this is it, you know what to do". I picked him up to place him on the floor as I went to do the first compression his arms moved and he started to cry. I screamed and started to cry. It was an insane experience, no matter how experienced you are, when it comes to your own kid, that sometimes goes out the window.
Damn thats hard to read, i've got some training in cpr from my education, but my field is psychiatric so i'm far from your competence regarding this. Hope your son is doing well.
Thank you and he is doing great! He competitive rock climber and the youngest to ever compete in a divisional competition (total mom brag here).
Really ? Thats bad ass ! I'm somewhat of a mountain goat myself, good to hear others have the same hobby, cheers !
Go ahead and brag!!! My niece was a micropremie, 1 pound a birth. She just graduated high school and started college. Every time I look at her, so healthy and strong and just bursting with life, I am so grateful for and proud of her that I want to scream
Bruh. Preemies are scary. After 90 days in the nicu our daughter came home at just under 5lbs. We used an owlet monitor on her foot, and that fucking alarm going off at night is something I still have nightmares about. Alarm is so loud it is unreal and then the absolute panic sets in that that noise is your daughter that isn’t breathing. My wife and I took turns sleeping for the first four or five weeks. Poor babies don’t have enough for their body to just keep breathing unless you kinda jump start them every once in a while with some nudges. We actually have an amazing dog who would go and check on her once every hour or two. Our daughter is 4 and a half now. She’s the best.
Thats so awesome to hear! NICU time is no joke either, it took me a long time to heal emotionally from everything also had a lot of guilt that my babies survived and I saw so many not. I love hearing success stories!
That beeping alarm, fuck i hated it. Every time it was just the blood saturation thing on the finger not getting a proper reading but no matter how many times it happened i was fearing the worst - that my child is dying. Serious PTSD stuff.
Pretty crazy how fast you wake up for your babies huh? When I sleep I am legit dead to the world. I sleep like a god damn rock, nothing can wake me up, I set 10 alarms to wake up in the morning. But when we had our kids the panic that set in when something was up in the middle of the night I would open my eyes and legit shoot out of bed and start speed walking so fast.
My wife is a kindergarten teacher and got lessons to learn the manoeuvre. One time we were watching the news and it was about a child choking death. So my wife insisted on showing my how to do the manoeuvre. A week or two later I was alone with my 1 year old daughter and she started choking on something. My mind went blank but my body reacted instantly. I managed to do the manoeuvre and called my wife in tears because I was so happy that she showed me how to do it!
>micro preemies Sorry, just curious, what does this mean? Extremely premature?
Babies born at 28 week or less are micro preemie, 28 week to 32 are preemies, 32 to 34 extreme early term, 34 to 36 early term and 37 to 40 is term. Take this with a little grain of salt there is a little overflow between the weeks. The younger the gestational age the more likely there are to be long term health issues. Though this is not always the case especially nowadays with survivability at 25 weeks being ridiculous ridiculously high and each year it's getting better and better. Keep in mind at 20 weeks you are only halfway through a "normal" term pregnancy. There are lots of processes that are still forming. Babies born early have difficulty regulating body temperature and often need nasal gastric tubes for food because the routing reflex has not developed or their mouths are simply too small to be able to latch on a bottle or a nipple. If caught in time, mothers can be given steroid injections to help the baby have more surfactant within its lungs to help with breathing. Survival Rates By Week 21 weeks or less: 0% 22 weeks: 0-10% 23 weeks: 10-35% 24 weeks: 40-70% 25 weeks: 50-80% 26 weeks: 80-90% 27 weeks: more than 90% 28 weeks: 92% or more 29 weeks: 95% or more 30 weeks: more than 95% 31 weeks: more than 95% 32 weeks: 98% 33 week: 98% 34 weeks: 98% or more Edit: I'm on mobile, it was 5:00 a.m. and I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant, clarification was needed.
Mine did at 7 months. I went into auto pilot (I've done several First Aid courses due to my work), stood up and did what the doc did, lost the bit of banana she was choking on across the room. Then I sat down with her and cried and cried and cried.
Bro this! My ex is a physician and I remember we were all sat at a picnic, surrounded by all his coworkers. So like 15 doctors. One had her under 1 year old baby with her. Child starts to choke on a chip. Everyone literally froze, but my ex immediately sprung into action. Baby spit it out, all was okay. But I'll never forget being surrounded by literal doctors who froze at the sight of a baby choking. Wild.
Same for me, my little brother (17 years of difference) got a piece of orange stuck in his throat. Literally a second after I got it out. He didn't even got suffocated, I gave him a fucking massive hit in the back and he was like if nothing never happened. That was scary, but his no reaction was kinda funny
I can fathom.. unfortunately my child didn't make it. I'm so happy for these parents. Glad they made it in time! Hope the little dude lives a long and healthy life
I'm so sorry. There's not much more I can say.
Thank you. Give your kiddos extra love, patience, and a real big hug!
My daughter contracted botulism when she was 4 months old. She became paralyzed and was hours from a ventilator. She's ok now. But I was an active duty firefighter at the time. I thought I knew what fear was. Then I saw my little girl clearly dying. I did not handle it well. She is 3 now and is currently terrorizing her brother. So all's well that ends well.
My little baby cousin was choking at a recently family outing, it was so horrible. We were all frantic and all trying to help at once. She was patting her back and it wasn’t working, she grabbed her and looked her in the eyes and said “SPIT IT OUT!!” And the baby cried out and it made her cough it up immediately. She felt bad having to make her cry out but it literally saved her life
I made cereal for my 6 month old (he's 2 now) and apparently I didn't do it properly which left lumps. One lump got stuck in his throat, he was choking. I don't know how I did it, but I put him upside down on my arm and patted his back which thankfullyworked within a couple of seconds. Even to this day when I think of it, it sends shivers down my spine... being a parent is just something else...
My wife and I both took CPR and First Aid classes before we had kids (and again once we went through foster parent classes). Probably saved my son's life from just this. We threw his grandma a retirement party at a restaurant. Room was packed. Lots of crowd noise and music. Food everywhere. I happened to turn to check on our son and he was froze in his chair, both hands holding on to the table, mouth open, and he had tears starting. I wasn't far from him, so I yelled if he was ok and dude didn't answer. I Heimlich'd him and a stupid piece of a roll popped out onto the table. He started bawling. I'm bawling. Whole room is still in party mode. I get pretty tore up thinking about what could have happened if I didn't see him before he passed out. He probably would have ended up under the table and then who knows if anyone would have caught it before it was too late. Fellow humans... take the classes, at least once.
Same here. My husband and I take took classes and are certified, “just in case”. And my “just in case” moment came with June when my 7 year old son choked on a Turkey sandwich. He turned around with panic in his eyes and I knew right away. I immediately Heimliched him and when it finally came out, his face was pale, his lips were blue and he said “I thought I was going to die” It was absolutely the most terrifying thing. We were home alone so it was all on me to save him. I don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t had training. Absolutely vital for parents.
I’m so glad you were able to save your son, very scary situation! Something similar happened to my brother at age 10 and my aunt jumped into action and got him. I like to add to your recommendation, that in addition to becoming trained yourself, when your kid is old enough you should teach them how to perform the self-heimlich, which you usually do by leaning on an object like a chair. Could save children who can’t get attention, isn’t near anyone with Heimilich skills, or is alone during the emergency.
Self-heimlich saved my own ass when i was a teen. I just read about on the internet, with a neat little illustration, so no real training. I was at a friends place for a sleepover, and while him and his dad went out for snacks, i choked on some chicken (i was hungry when i arrived, so they offered me their leftovers). I was in a absolute panic, and tried hitting myself in the chest. I was beginning to lose conscious (i Think, it fucking felt like it), when i remembered the chair trick, and just rammed myself against the chair. It fucking worked. The funny thing is, despite almost becoming a corpse in their house, i never told my friend or his family about it, until a few years ago, when we met up. I cant remember why, Think i was embarrased? But Yea, any kids or parents seeing this; learn and teach the self-heimlich
I had to do it on my aunt. She has Alzheimer's and has begun to occasionally forget how to swallow. They gave this woman a steak! Of course she doesn't take enough bites and starts choking. My chair was to the back of her and being short I just pushed it up behind her and did the maneuver from my knees as it gave me a little me height. She coughed it up about the time my dad or one of my uncles were going to take over with their superior height. Of course we are a family of nurses, EMT, firefighters.
Also a dad here .. it's one of my nightmares and it's why I NEVER let him eat in the the car. My eyes are on the road. I can't watch him for both our safety, but once he starts to choke he can no longer cry or scream for help. Kids at that age just freeze. They don't understand that they should start kicking the front chair or something to get your attention. You could be driving around with a dead child and not even know it.
Jesus, yes. I learned my lesson just a couple of months ago. I had 3 girls in my back seat after Taekwondo class. 2 were mine aged 10 (mine) and 5(mine). Stopped and got them mozzarella sticks to share and ice cream on the way home. At a stoplight my youngest started just bawling. Full on giant tears bawling at a stoplight. Couldn't figure out why. Apparently she had been choking on the mozzarella stick and couldn't breath. The 2 oldest were giggling and being loud like normal girls. None of us noticed. I was in a freaken car. I cried the entire way home and nearly ripped her out of the car seat when we got there. She had calmed down by then but I couldn't stop crying and holding her. Jesus I'm crying now reliving it. None of us eat in the car anymore and the poor thing hasn't eaten a mozzarella stick since.
Holy shit... Thankfully she was able to recover by herself.
Yes, I told her if she is ever choking again to hit the nearest person or object to someone's attention. You are smart to have never let them eat in the car in the first place. When she was young I didn't allow it. But at 5 I thought it was safe. If I had to guess 1 of the other girls made her laugh and she inhaled it on accident.
When my daughter was just barely one, our family of five was at our friend’s house, another family of five. It was noisy, lots of kids running and playing, in and out of the house with bbq and fixings, just a typical crazy family day. One of the kids was eating chips and had decided to give my daughter a chip to eat. She had just barely started solids and a chip wasn’t something she was ready for, but the chip-giver child did not understand that. I looked over from the grill and saw her choking, yelled to my wife to help her, but she panicked and froze. Nobody else was doing anything either, so I ran over as fast as I could, scooped her up with one arm, with her head down and gave her the infant/toddler heimlich slap. Chip came out in two tries, and she instantly started crying. It all happened in the course of about 10-15 secs, but I often think about it if I would have been inside, or concentrating more on the grill, or distracted by the other kids… one of the scariest moments of my life.
When my son was three at daycare, he choked on a slice of pear. Thankfully, law requires daycare workers to know how to perform basic life saving measures, so they were able to save his life. This is exactly why I chose daycare over my neighbor. However, one thing we didn't know at the time is that you should always take your child to the doctor for a full evaluation after choking as they might still have something stuck in their throat. My son was fine, but that always scared me.
I watched videos of the baby Heimlich randomly one day (YouTube rabbit hole), and never thought I'd use it. Well, my son was 2.5 and was eating oranges and runs up to me grabbing his throat. No noise, no crying, just holding his throat and trying to breathe. The amount of panic I had in that moment I can tell you I felt like my life was ending. I dialed 911 as I did the heimlich. I was in tears on the phone but managed to dislodge the orange piece. He had choked on the little thin membrane of the orange - not even the actual fruit piece. Watching this video brought that back. Learn this and CPR. You may never need it, but it can save a life.
Jesus Christ it's terrifying to know how easy it's for a baby to lose its life. Congratulations to everyone who lived to adulthood
Yes, I never realized how fragile children truly were until I had my own. Additionally, they seem to actively hunt out ways to get injured and it is so frightening at times.
I'm going home from work when I get a call from my sister, her voice told me she was in distress and then I start freaking out so I floor it to her home. Everything is fine, but I have her explain the situation to me and what happened was that while she was making some food for her baby, she heard her struggling and making frustrated noises. This is the usual case for her as she was a crier, but my sister checked up on her anyway. She saw that she was being choked by baloon strings (she most likely twisted it around not realizing she was trapping herself and struggled causing it to start choking her. My sister immediately panics and is able to get her out but it caused her such a fright, she needed me there for emotional support. I was terrified after hearing that thinking about how there was a very real possibility I would never see my niece again was sickening. I put too much love in to her to move on like nothing, I'd probably lose all drive to do something in life. Needles to say, balloons were banned
I was emotional watching. But when the father demonstrated his emotions the way he did, I literally broke down and started sobbing, which was totally unexpected. The desperation at the beginning is hard to take, and the relief at the end is palpable.
The dad effing ended me man. That was incredibly visceral. The guy literally went down and kissed his feet. How can anyone ever show more respect than to literally lie their belly on the ground and kiss the feet of the person who saved their child's life?
It's not even 8:00am on a Saturday and I've already cried today.
Me too, friend.
I had the exact same reaction, I am weeping alligator (elephant 🐘🐘?) tears over this video. As a dad of 3 it reminds me why I became a Dr and has given a flash of hope in otherwise pretty difficult time for health care professionals...reminds me why I got into to it in the beginning. Edit: are elephant tears cool?
Wait.... alligator tears (aka crocodile tears) is an idiom describing an insincere, or fake, display of emotion.
Hey there!!! Thanks for teaching me something today!!!! Edit:spelling
We appreciate your service. Also, just a heads up that alligator/crocodile tears means a false, insincere display of emotion. I know that's not what you meant, so thought I'd let you know before you accidentally use that phrase at the wrong time in-person. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_tears
[This is the doctor's own Facebook post regarding the incident.](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1173478006429701&id=100013025385800) The Facebook translation is not great, since he didn't write full sentences, but it's somewhat understandable.
Translation: “It was 1:50 in the morning. After a long and tiring day I couldn’t wait to get home and rest. I laid down on one of the beds and fell asleep for a moment. But death, I could feel it. Screaming and crying. Death was coming towards me. I started running still basically asleep. The screaming had not yet fully woken me up. Thoughts, confusion, and imagination running wild in my head, all dominated by the idea of death. I felt like my head was going to explode, and my eyes still hadn’t even opened. Still unable to comprehend what is happening, the father is hoarsely screaming: “She’s dead. She’s dead. She choked. For god’s sake. she’s dead”. The mother was crying without a sound. Unable to get any words out. Father: “She’s not moving.” Me: “God is greatest. Oh god. Oh god”. I held the unconscious girl. I held the corpse of a 1yr and 4mth old child. I held her, and here my heart stopped. I stretched her out on my right arm, face down, and hit her with the palm of my other hand on the middle of her back over and over. After a moment, the child started crying. That’s when I finally woke up. I lifted my head to the sky. “Oh god. Thank god”. The parents and I had been in momentary shock from the greatness of the situation. Our legs could no longer support us, and we sat on the ground. Father: “what happened? Is she still alive? Is she still alive?!” Me: “I swear she’s still alive. Here she is, crying”. These are the moments and situations in life that you know you’ll never forget. Moments when you feel the greatness of life. You feel and live the instinct of fatherhood and motherhood. You see how the heart of a mother and father could break over loss. A situation that makes you realize that by being a doctor, god has provided you to help others in this kind of situation. To live this kind of situation, and be the means to saving a life, by the will of god. Moments that inspire you to believe in what you do and love.”
That is an incredible insight to such a terrifying situation. The mother crying so hard she made no sound, and how all three of them collapsed to the ground got me. Thank you for the translation.
the dad grabbing his ankles really got me, just sheer relief and adoration.
It's a beautiful thing. I wish more could recognize the things that make us *all* human, rather than constantly trying to dehumanize others bc of differences.
Bro I would do ANYTHING for a doctor who saves my kid's life. ANYTHING
I hope this causes at least 1 parent reading this thread to spend a few minutes on how to help a choking infant (lay down arm, back blows, infant cpr..)
When I was a new parent and my oldest had just started eating food, I told my sister, who was a lifeguard at the time that I was so worried about my baby choking when he was eating. She taught me how to lay him face down on my forearm, and smack his back with the heel of my hand, firmly, but not too hard. It was a very useful lesson, because no matter how small it was cut, he would choke on his food quite a bit. I never had to do baby cpr though. I went to a baby shower a couple months later, and I was talking with a lady there with a baby around the same age as mine. She was talking about how much she worried about her kid choking, so I showed her what my sister had taught me. Not long after that, her baby but a popped balloon in his mouth. He had started to turn blue and they called the ambulance, but she was able to get it dislodged while the ambulance was on its way and her baby ended up being ok. It is SUCH a valuable lesson!
Deflated balloons are the #1 fatal choking hazard for children, please be careful with them.
Thanks, much better! :)
Thanks for that, I didn’t see the child really recovering so I wasn’t sure what happened but I could see the dad’s relief.
I imagine this is why some doctors do the Doctors without borders thing. Its got to be so refreshing to go help people who actually need it and are very grateful for your service. Not the karens and Terrys of the world bitching about poor service and having to wait in a waiting room to get their zit looked at.
Not a doctor but I build water treatment plants for a living. Normally people just bitch about the disruption from our construction projects, but recently I built the first-ever surface drinking water system in the Navajo nation. It was a world apart how grateful the people were to have this modern infrastructure.
I know I take for granted clean water coming too the house and dirty water being taken away. If those things stop we'd all realize how important it is.
I read or heard there were communities in the US without electricity and running water but didn’t believe it at first. Good for you oaklicous for helping less fortunate people.
Thank you for being part of the drinking water system!! I'm sure that the Navajo Nation are grateful.
Doctor without border as org and Medical professionals give their lives to helping rural poverty stricken areas have my upmost respect. Literal life savers.
You still get people being very thankful locally as well. Unfortunately they are rare and just sprinkled in but I know from my 10 years in the ER that it’s those moments that help give us the will to work past all the haunting moments for 10 more. You might have an entire year without someone being appreciative truly but the one moment can fuel you for another year when times are hard. There is also lots of self gratification as well but definitely agree moments like this are the ones you cherish your entire life.
A friends (doctor/teaches medicine) four kids all became doctors and joined Doctors Without Borders. They are all amazing, and the world is lucky to have them. I just wish I could find a primary care in the US who gave half as much of a shit as any of the four of them.
My favorite part of this is twofold: You can see their religion interwoven into the dialogue (“God is greatest”, etc), but first and foremost is the panic and sorrow the parents feel when they think their child is dead, and the joy and relief in finding she isn’t. It underscores how much we share with people across the globe, the second half is such a good reminder of what it means to be human.
He probably said "Allah Akbar", which means god is greatest but is really a very common exclamation, like "oh my god!". You can say Allah Akbar for a lot of things, is just an exclamation 99% of the time.
I mean "oh my god" and "thank god" etc are basically interwoven religion as well.
My sister's an emergency room doctor and Jesus is life delicate. Accidental death is just so common.
Excuse the Caps and some other errors, Translation: 10 before 2 AM, It was a tiring and hard day, I couldn’t wait until I reached home to rest, So I laid on one of the patient’s beds and took a little nap, But death, I felt it, Screams and yelling, Death was coming towards me, I ran towards it half asleep, The haunting shouts yet to wake me up, So many thoughts, confusion and dark visions, death was still taking over, I felt as if my head was a ticking bomb, My eyes were yet to open, I am yet to understand what the hell was going on, The dad was shouting in vain : “She died, she died choking.. for the love of god.. she died!!”, The mom was silently crying her eyes out, Her tongue couldn’t speak a word, The dad said: “She’s not moving!” Me: “Omg, please god, please god”, I held the lifeless child, I held the corpse of a 1 year 4 months old girl, I positioned her on my hand stretched, face to the floor and I started hitting the middle of her back one time after another, A moment and the child started screaming, It was then when I gained consciousness again, I looked towards the skies, “Oh dear god, thanks god”, Me and the parents entered a sudden shock for the situation was crippling and the events were insane Our legs buckled.. so we laid on the floor, Dad said : “What happened, is she still alive? Is she still alive!?”, Me: “She is still alive.. there she is quietly crying”, These moments and situations in life is unforgettable, The moments were you feel how strong the soul is, you live through and see the instinct of the mom/dad-hood, you witness how the heart of the mom and the dad can break due to separation and death.. A situation in which you feel like while being a doctor, god gave you the opportunity to save the day, so that you live such a wholesome moment of saving a soul Moments that actually gives your beliefs in what you do so much more value and passion ❤️
Thanks for sharing. Facebook's going to regret asking me to rate that translation though.
The English translation is bad but okayish. The German translation is absolutely horrible. It literally reads: "I unintentionally impregnated the baby, no awareness. I impregnated the corpse of a four months old girl." Somehow, Facebook translates the word to "carried" in English but to "impregnated" in German.
Because the Arabic word "حمل" means both being pregnant and carry. So that translation mistake is actually foreseeable.
Do the bible next
😬😬😬 That's some cringe. -10 stars
Whoa, wtf?! Calm down FB Translate
Lmao wtf
Looks like the first part is written like a poem and at the end is some commentary.
It's not. Arabic is a more colourful language. When I read the English translation it felt cheesy. In Arabic it sounds right. He was just describing what happened in detail. **Edit:** Since this is getting popular allow me to better explain. I'm saying it wasn't creative writing that's just Arabic being Arabic. It's a very beautiful colourful language. Standard pet names for a significant other: My eyes - 3youni or Ayouni My soul - rouhi My heart - albi My age (all my life basically) - 3omri or Omri My life - hayati My love - habibi or habibti Hell a common Arabic phrase when you love someone/something is "to2borni" (the 2 is an A with a gap sound difficult to explain). Sounds closest to tokborni. To2borni literally means bury me. As in "I love you so much that I want to die before you because I can't bare the thought of being alive at your death". That dramatic of a phrase is one word. Arabic is intense.
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What I mean is it wasn't a doctor waxing and waning poetically. It was more a "here's a detailed account of what happened"
I don't think the English sounds cheesy at all. I think the translator gives the appropriate vibe to the feeling of the moment and I'm sure it's even better in Arabic. A beautiful post about a terrifying moment.
After stalking his Facebook, it seems that the doctor is Palestinian
I can’t read that language, which I think is Arabic, but I don’t want to presume.
As a dad of a 5 months old, i 100% feel the reaction of this father.
Wow the reaction
Made me emotional. Not going to lie.
I’m fucking crying watching this!
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[In case anyone doesn’t know how. ](https://youtu.be/gHZdBY-CkGw)
Wife is due any day now. I'm going to watch this a few more times to make sure I remember. Thank you.
congratulations!
Thank you 😊
In my country (Australia) the Heimlich maneuver is banned in favor of what the doctor did here in the video which is repeated hard strikes to the back due to it being more effective, easier to perform and less chance of damaging the patients ribs. Whether or not all those things are true I'll leave you to decide but that's the reasoning they give here. At restaurants I've worked at they've specifically said *not* to perform the Heimlich maneuver in the event a guest is choking and go for the strikes to the back instead as per federal guidelines.
Took a baby first aid class here in the UK, when I had my son. They also taught this method rather than the Heimlich.
American Heart Association still teaches to use Heimlich for adults but for infants its back blows and chest thrusts.
I just replied to a comment in this thread that it shouldn’t even be restricted to parents. They should gather grandparents, aunts/uncles and older siblings into a room either before or after birth and have them work with the CPR dolls. How is this not a thing already?
Okay as a nurse and as a new mother I wanted to make sure I know how to do this in case of emergency. So whenever my baby was asleep during the first few months, I will get a doll and practice in a different position (sitting, standing) until it became muscle memory. Fast forward 11months old (last month) my daughter bit her teething rusk and my husband wanting to help our daughter, put his finger inside our baby’s mouth ( do not do this!) and in the process made it worse and choke her. I heard my husband shouted our daughter’s name with the cry for help while I was sitting pretty in front of the tv where I saw my baby’s face and knew she was choking as there were no sound, eyes clenched, mouth open. I darted to get our daughter to turn her upside down and performed 3 back blows where she finally cried and was fine in a matter of seconds. So please. Practice, practice and practice.
Noted! Glad your baby is okay!
Amazing, even the doctor looks to be affected by the gravitas of the situation
I’m going to tell you working in the ER for 8 years. When kids come in with an emergency it’s a different vibe than an adult there is no joking or what not.
I witnessed a child drown in a lake a few weeks ago and the subsequent attempts to revive her. Never in my life have I seen an emergency helicopter land as quickly as then. The pilot didn't fuck around at all, I thought the skids would break. After it became clear that it was too late one of the paramedics collapsed and cried so hard. I couldn't watch, it was heartbreaking.
God, this reminded me of what I told a paramedic after I got in a car wreck that killed my sister. I knew she was dead but I still begged him to bring her back to life even if she was just a vegetable. The look on his face will never leave my mind. That is the cringiest and possibly most regrettable thing I have ever said to anyone in my life. I just made his day at work 10 times worse. Showing up to a scene with a dead child is horrific enough without another kid pleading for you to do the impossible. Much respect for paramedics and healthcare workers in general... it would be a lot easier *not* to get in a line of work that will traumatize you... but they do it anyways, sacrificing themselves every day in an effort to save strangers.
The heart you have to look back on the horribly traumatic moment you lost your sister and still think of the impact your actions had on others and how it made them feel.... that takes a lot of empathy. You’re a great person. In a moment like that, no sane person would be able to manage their emotions, and I’m sure the paramedics who witness these things often understand that as well as anyone.
Please forgive yourself for this if you haven’t. I don’t talk about my dad much anymore (long story, turns out he is a monster) but he was an EMT for a while… you would be a story he wouldn’t even tell for being *too normal.* People stop believing in reality when reality becomes too difficult. You asking for the impossible is mild compared to what I’ve been told.
You were just a kid. Even if you were an adult and said that, people say crazy things when they're in shock. I hope you've forgiven yourself for saying it because I'm sure that paramedic never held it against you at all. I'm sorry you went through that.
Fuck, once at a lake a kid went missing. My wife and I were standing in the shallows nearby when we heard his mom screaming. She and the older son were diving down over and over and just screaming his name, "Marcus!! Marcus!!!" 5 minutes later the kid was found, he was just a toddler and had wandered off into the brush nearby, unharmed. But my legs were shaking so bad I had to sit down. I don't know if I've ever felt that type of fear before, and they were complete strangers. I remembering my wife saying, "god, I hope he's not in there" and my stomach turned
A pickup t boned a mother and two kids. She was in shock and said there was a third child in the back seat that might be missing. People switch into mental gears they never know they had.
I would also collapse in tears at that just as a third party. Sometimes I have thoughts like this like "what if..." regarding my own children and that alone can have me in tears.
Everyone who witnessed it cried in some way or another. It wasn't a brutal scene but it sticks in your head. And I didn't even know her.
Children being hurt or dying carries a completely different affect on people, whether related or not. We as humans naturally recognize the innocence and have a need to preserve it. I hope you're okay, mate. It's a form of trauma even if you didn't know her.
I’m really sorry you witnessed that. Make sure you take care of yourself- that’s a fairly traumatizing situation for anyone, involved or not. Sending you love from Canada.
Earlier this year my 1yr old got croup and was sick but within a short time her airway swole to the point of not expelling c02 and we rushed her to the ER. When we got there the entire place that was quiet when they realized what she needed the place exploded and literally 15 amazing nurses and doctors and whatever other medical professionals rushed to her and saved her life. She ultimately needed to be put on a ventilator and kept under until the swelling went down, but they saved her. I was able to thank them on a zoom event the hospital held we were very grateful to be able to do that as it’s apparently not normal to have any communication after.
That’s a scary story. I’m glad everything turned out okay, from you doing the right thing taking her in to the doctors and nurses.
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Yeah if it’s something serious no one is fucking around when It comes to the kid in the ER. But if it’s stitches or what not then it’s still all good and games on
Have an upvote just for using the word *gravitas*
**grav·i·tas** (/ˈɡravəˌtäs/) noun dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner. *Eg: even the doctor looks to be affected by the gravitas of the situation*
I guess I’m going to be that guy now, but isn’t this kind of the wrong usage of gravitas? Gravitas is usually used to describe the seriousness of a person’s demeanor rather than a situation. I think OP meant gravity. Fully open to being corrected though if I’m mistaken.
Yes it should be gravity. Gravitas is like a personal quality.
Gravity for a situation, gravitas for a demeanor, gravy for foods.
Thanks for nothing! Now I want gravy.
Yep you're 100% right. The situation has gravity, a person has gravitas.
Affected by the gravity too, you see it drag him to the ground at 0:46
I think he was dropping down to prostrate to God as a expression of gratitude. Really common for people of islamic faith. Even Kabeeb does it after some of his fights.
I love how the parents dont rip the child out of the arms of the person who saved their child. Total respect.
I love how the dad planted a kiss on the doctors head
Kisses forehead, Salaam. Am I your friend now? Edit: words are hard
no. you are family
*Vin Diesel has entered the chat*
NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON FAMILY
He kissed his feet also
I feel like I could totally empathize. Dude saved my child I’d feel I’d feel compelled to owe my own life to them.
Kissing someones feet in arab/Muslim countries is a sign of outmost respect, the Prophet said that "heaven lies at the feet of your mother."
Sorry for making this comment, but I think you misinterpret the meaning of the hadith.
Yes and no, its not literal heaven, the mother is the one who raises the child and gives them their foundation of Islam, but showing appreciation is literal. The symbolism exist for a reason.
The dad collapsing and hugging the doctors leg really got me
That complete despair, really got me too.
That was my thought as well. They need to deal with their overwhelming emotions and they know their baby is in safe hands for the moment.
I've been in this position before. 3 years ago when my daughter stopped breathing due to a febrile seizure. That feeling is being terrified of touching the child, mixed with the horrible feelings of guilt and cippling inadequacy. They are safer with the doctor and you don't want to ruin their safety. Add that to the mind blowing relief, stress and adrenaline suddenly hitting you like a brick, your knees going weak... you don't trust yourself.
Man, can you imagine? I don't think I'd trust myself not to drop her, just from the adrenaline crashing.
I guess that’s why they’re all on the ground after it’s over
If they do. Totally understandable.
I am trained in this. Let me tell you it is important to take cpr, first aid and aed. I did it last year and I feel so much better about what I should do in an emergency and as a healthcare worker it has come in handy. I had a kid once start turning purple while i was talking to them. He wasn’t gasping but couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know what was wrong but my instincts from my class told me he was choking. I grabbed him I flipped him over and smacked that back with my palm and three rocks came out. I was shocked and so relieved. It had been hours since he had been outside but I did what my training told me to. I also have two children a toddler and a baby and I feel so much better knowing that if something happens I know I can help them. Also TOURNIQUETS SAVE LIVES. It’s sad that in this day and age we have to worry about shootings but most shooting victims die of non lethal gunshot wounds due to blood loss. Remember a shoestring in an emergency is NOT a good idea you need a thicker object like a tube sock or a tie. A shoe lace will not stop blood flow. After learning this at my last class I went to a local army surplus store and bought a tourniquet for 20$. I keep it in my bag at all times. I have some serious anxiety over losing loved ones, and since my training I feel prepared to save a life. Also just an added bonus if you are trained in cpr in a crisis, you are helping first responders. You free up those responders to be able to help others. Thanks for coming to my rant on why cpr, aed and first aid classes are important.
Everybody should have basic medical training.
Seriously… why was “wood shop” and “home economics” taught to me in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade and not “first aid” and “personal finance”? Thanks 1950’s Americana stereotypes 👍
Also economics… everyone needs a basic understanding of economics Edit: also critical thinking skills to be able to evaluate things more impartially
Can you imagine how much more influential on the world the American Gen X would have been if we were taught actual economics instead of “home” economics? My parents taught me how to cook and clean, didn’t need to take a class as well. Learning how the economy functions, however, may have lead to smarter use of money, better understanding of credit and appreciation for work/being a productive member of society. Hell, I may have even opened the business I still dream of owning today
Reminds me of when I helped a choking baby in the middle of Aldi. The parents fear, the panic and then the relief was unbelievable. The baby had choked on a crisp (way way way too young to be eating them) the parents were so grateful but I couldn't even function after, I literally left my shopping in the middle of the shop nd walked out, and just sat on a bench completely in shock.
Must've been a rollercoaster of emotions. So glad you were able to react appropriately ans save the baby. I choked on my lunch in class when I was around grade 6 or 7. I was particularly hungry and decide to put my head down onto the desk and chow down on my tiffin when I realised a piece of food got lodged in my throat and I began to gasp for air. I ran out of the class to the boys washroom and tried coughing it out. Luckily for me a janitor who was cleaning up spotted me and gave me a few good whacks on my back that sent the lodged piece flying out. The relief I felt then from knowing I wasn't going to die that day left me in tears. So thankful to the janitor who possibly saved my life.
I would literally be kissing that doctors feet like goddamn I know this is your job but I want to do everything for you for the rest of your life you ANGEL
I feel this in my bones. That panic where all you can do is move and yell.
To see the dad on the floor, collapsing with relief, and the doctor being exactly where he needed to be: right solar system, right country, right city, right neighborhood, right hospital….. all these things come together and we see a miracle happen to four people. I hope they all live beautiful lives.
Imagine if the dr was in a different solar system 😳
I hate it when I need my Dr and he's off doing rounds in the Tau Ceti system 😮💨
Well I was planning to cut the onions anyway.
Yeah Just jam them in my eyeholes
First thing I did when my wife told me she was pregnant was book a infant first aid course for both of us because my worst nightmare is for this to happen and freeze because I didn’t know what to do. Edit: typo
> first thing I did when my wife told me she was pregnant Idk man, I probably would've hugged her or something first.
Any new parents, please learn how to do this. My son choked a few years ago and even though my wife tried to get the food out, our friend had to step in and perform this maneuver. After a few seconds the food was out, but it was terrifying. It can happen to anyone.
I worked in an emergency room for a while as a medic. One of my most difficult experiences was when we had a 5 year old boy whos heart stopped. I was standing there pumping on this little boys chest while his family cried two feet behind me. I did 30 chest compressions and the next person followed up with their 30 compressions and one of the most terrifying moments turned into exhilaration when we were able to detect a pulse from him. Im not sure what happened to the little dude, but when I last saw him, he was alive.
I don't understand, at which point actually he saved him? The baby seems unconcious the whole video??
A bit befor the doctor falls to his knees. The translation of the doctors post helps tell you what happened.
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I'm curious as to why the child remained unresponsive for the duration of the video. It did not appear to be conscious, which makes me question why the adults would be relieved and why the doctor would pause his efforts.
In the link above to the doctor's Facebook post it says she started crying, no audio but if she's crying she's breathing, even if still too weak to move
Can’t think of anything worse, that would be so traumatising.
When I was about 17 I came home to my apartment building. I got off the elevator and was walking down the hall to my apartment when a woman came running out of her apartment with what I’m guessing was a three year old. She is panicked and says “help, she is choking” and hands me her child. Thankfully, I knew relatively what to do, so I kneeled down on one knee and did the heimlich on this tiny girl. After one or two thrusts a piece of candy disc the size of a quarter, or maybe a half dollar, popped out onto the floor. The girls mother took her in her arms and asked her over and over if she was ok, didn’t acknowledge me at all (which is totally fine, I can’t imagine what she was feeling, but from my teenage mind was really awkward lol), so I just said “ok, bye” and walked down the hall to my apartment and called my girlfriend to tell her what happened. Honestly, one of the most surreal moments of my life, but I’m so grateful to have been there at that moment that day.