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A Villa Rica mother says she can’t even imagine what her life would be like today, had she and her husband not attended an infant CPR training class offered by Tanner Medical Center more than two-years ago. Earlier this year in their home, Misty Williams and husband Jake checked in on their four-month old son and found him unresponsive. “We had taken this class when we were pregnant with our daughter, who is 2 ½ now,” she says. “When the incident with our son happened, we had just laid him down for the night… and he had stopped crying a little sudden, so my husband went to check on him.” Husband Jake found their infant unconscious and not breathing.
“We remembered the steps we had learned in the class,” says Misty. “I performed CPR while Jake called the ambulance… and we waited on them to come and we were able to resuscitate him on our own.”
Williams says her son had simply rolled over into his blanket causing him to smother. She says 11-month old Easton is perfectly healthy following the ordeal.
She now urges fellow-parents, area grandparents and baby sitters to take advantage of the upcoming “Learning CPR Is Easy Baby Edition” course offered by Tanner Mmedical Center this weekend.
Tanner to Offer Free ‘Learning CPR is Easy: Baby Edition’ Infant CPR Class
It’s a terrifying notion that few parents are eager to address: What would I do if my baby stopped breathing?
Knowing how to respond if a child stops breathing is critical to saving a baby’s life. That includes knowing how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a baby.
To help increase awareness and knowledge of infant CPR in the region, Tanner is offering a free “Learning CPR is Easy” session focused on infant CPR. The class will be held Saturday, Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. in the Health Education and Wellness Learning Center at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton.
Participants in “Learning CPR is Easy: Baby Edition” will learn the fundamentals of performing infant CPR on a child under 1 year of age, and will receive training materials – including a training manikin and instructional video that can be used to train others, including babysitters and grandparents.
A baby’s heart can stop beating for any number of reasons, including choking, drowning, electric shock, excessive bleeding, head trauma or serious injury, lung disease, poisoning, suffocation and others. Learning the fundamentals of how to perform CPR on an infant is easy. While this class will not offer a CPR certification, it will provide the knowledge to save a life.
“Learning CPR is Easy: Baby Edition” is free for the first 130 families who register. For more information or to sign up for the session, call 770.214.CARE (2273). This program is funded by grants from Greystone Power and Carroll County Farm Bureau.