Parents Nightmare by mommy:
tired of retyping this, so here’s a cut from the mums group I manage:
I’m still a wreck, and we’ve been home from ER for just over an hour. Cecily choked (as in not breathing at all and turned purple) this morning, and an ambulance and several hours at the ER (and several xrays) later we’re home. I’m still near crying, that had to have been the worst, scariest experience of my life.
A friend was over for coffee and I sat on the floor to start feeding cecily her morning yogurt, first bite and she started coughing and gasping… I immediately did the infant choking maneovour but it was no good… she could cry between gasps but thats it and it was obvious she was straining to breathe. I knew something was wrong - she’s choked before but never like this - and told my friend to call 111. Friend then ran out to direct the ambulance since our house is hard to find, and thats when Cecily stopped breathing all together and turned purple… I managed to stick my finger in her mouth and dig out some cellutape but she didn’t stop choking. It felt like forever but it must have only been 30 seconds. I ran outside to save time and she started gasping/choking and stopped going funny colors just as the ambulance pulled up, then started breathing right again.
In the end we went to ER anyway, even though she finally started breathing normally and was happy as the paramedics were examining her….. Hubby is home now and we went through what happened, and we now figure she must have had paper or something stuck there under the tape (the xray shows something odd in her tummy but nothing dangerous) and had just enough airway to breathe, but when i went to feed her it clogged up completely. Near the end she must have swallowed it just after I got the tape out and freed up her airways. Time will tell what the culprit was I suppose!
Anyway sorry if that was a bit messed up, not sure if I got it out in the right order…. but I had to share it, otherwise I’ll spend the rest of the evening crying and shaking!