Baby First Aid: How to save a choking baby — Transcript

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1. 0:00Today I'm going to show you how to help a baby under the age of one if they are
2. 0:04choking. What I mean by choking is that if something has got stuck and it's in
3. 0:09their mouth and it's slipped back and it is blocking off the tube that they
4. 0:13breathe through; we call it the airway. So it might be when they are eating, when
5. 0:17they are starting to wean and they've got new textures and foods that they're
6. 0:21learning to eat, but it can be right from a newborn baby curdled milk or mucus can
7. 0:28block off the tube that they breathe through. It would be very easy for you to
8. 0:32tell if your baby's choking because they wouldn't be able to cough or cry and
9. 0:38they wouldn't be able to breathe so they wouldn't be making any of their normal
10. 0:42gurgly sounds. If this was happening then the first thing you need to do is
11. 0:48just support your baby's head and tip them forwards, and I'm going to give them
12. 0:52what we call back blows. With your baby in this position gravity is on your side,
13. 0:58you can see their head is lower than their bottom. And then with the heel of
14. 1:01my hand I'm going to give them a blow between their shoulder blades. So I'll
15. 1:07demonstrate for you now. If it's not come out then I'm just going to try again and
16. 1:16keep going until it comes out. What the back blows do is they create a vibration
17. 1:24and pressure within the airway which will hopefully force the object out. If
18. 1:30they've not worked and I've done five back blows then there is something else
19. 1:34that you can try. So turn your baby over, supporting their head still, and still
20. 1:40keeping them resting on your knee, and then in this position with two fingers
21. 1:44right in the centre of my baby's chest I'm going to give them what we call
22. 1:49chest thrusts. And it's a very quick, fast push down. If it's not come out, again
23. 1:58just keep going. What the chest thrusts do is they will hopefully squeeze the
24. 2:04air out of their lungs and push the object out of the way
25. 2:30you