UPDATE: First aid session at Alberton hospital enables mom to save her premature baby
Baby Mason is now seven months old.
LITTLE Mason Franco who’s life was saved by his mother, Bianca Franco, after he choked is doing very well.
“I got the fright of my life when Mason one day started gasping for air after he had been discharged from hospital,” said Bianca. “I was feeding and burping Mason when he suddenly started gasping for breath and going blue. It was an extremely frightening experience,” said the 30-year-old first-time mom.
“Fortunately the neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu) at Netcare Clinton Hospital insists that moms and caregivers undergo a short training session in baby first aid and CPR before the little ones are discharged. Remembering what I had been taught there, I checked Mason’s airways for an obstruction, placed him face down on my knee and gave him a solid thump on his back. To my huge relief this helped in clearing his airway and restoring his breathing,” she said.
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Mason was born prematurely by emergency caesarean section at Netcare Clinton Hospital on April 28 at just 24 weeks and a weight of only 560 grams. Today he is seven months old and weighs 3.62kg.
“After little Mason’s choking incident, he is doing very well. He has been sleeping better and he has started smiling now as well. His milestones are catching up nicely,” said his mother.
Her advice to mothers is to do a CPR course.
“It could save their life. Any accident can happen, drowning, choking, anything.”
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