“When you go through something like this with your own child it can feel isolating and like no one understands what you’re going through, when in fact this has let me know the exact opposite.
There’s so many people that know exactly what we’re going through, and people that may have lost their child that are just so gracious that ours survived, that are sharing their stories of survival and the impact CPR has made on their lives, and that is overwhelming.
“The whole point of this is to let people know: This little thing, CPR, the 10-minute class you get at work once a year, or the thing you learn for 30 minutes before you have a baby, don’t brush it off, because you never know when you’re going to need to know it, and it can truly — we’re proof — save lives.â€.David Markenson, chief medical officer for American Red Cross Training Services, agrees that it’s crucial for caregivers to know how to administer first aid and perform CPR, saying, “in what could be a tragic situation, you can save a life if you’re trained.â€.
“Because children’s bodies and the way they work — especially infants — are different from adults, you need to know how to help them, and the technique for CPR and some first aid steps are very different for an infant and a child,†he tells Yahoo Life.“In an infant, it’s right between the nipple line, and you do want to press hard and fast, but the depth of pressing is less in an infant than in adults, about an inch and a half.
“While it is a rare event to need to do CPR or first aid for an infant or a child, it can occur,†he says