I've not been here in a little while, I've been really busy with teething and other things, but that's another post.
The other day I was giving Flynn a snack, I offered him a rusk, he had had them a couple of times and usually just sucked them for a while then threw them away, this day he took a big bite and before I could react he had chewed and swallowed it! Stupid me should have taken that as a warning and taken the rusk away I'm an idiot and didn't lo and behold he took another bite, this time he didn't chew, he started choking and gasping! I'm really proud of myself I didn panic, I pulled him out of the high chair, flipped him upside down over my knee and gave him two smacks on his back, luckily he coughed and dislodged it, I hooked it out of his mouth and gave my rather bewildered baby a hug.
the point of this post? Yes partly don't try feeding babies things they probably aren't ready for, but mainly its the importance of first aid training, I was lucky and while I was pregnant I did a first aid course at work and the trainer added in a bit about babies for me, I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't learnt the choking technique, this could have been a very different post.
luckily for me all is now well and there were no lasting effects, Flynn is fine and I'm rather paranoid about what I feed him (rusks only if smushed with milk...)
What would you have done? How would you react?
It scared me when I thought about if I hadn't done the training and it worries me how many mummies don't have basic first aid training, I wanted to post my experience in the hope that even one mummy would read it and book themselves on a course local children's centres do them sometimes for free I'm sure there are other places too.
is your babys life worth a quick google and possibly an afternoon?
