Your baby is choking on something. You hear a weak, ineffective cough. The baby’s eyes are open wide and the lips are turning a gray or bluish color. How can you help? What do you do?
Click on the following link for a Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota Patient Education sheet for a simple, one page reference:
http://www.childrensmn.org/Manuals/PFS/FirstAid/018313.pdf
Remember, do not use your fingers to search for the choking object (Pick it out of the mouth only if you can clearly see the object). If “blind finger sweeps” are done, the object can be pushed further down the windpipe, or might damage the back of the mouth and throat.
North Central Baptist Hospital has an infant CPR class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 PM. Register by calling the NICU nursing station at 210-297-4985.
Take Care,
Cindy, RN