Mom performs CPR on baby daughter, saves her life


Just after giving birth during her home, one mom had to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her baby daughter in sequence to save her life, BBC News reported.

Amy O’Riordan went into labor 3 months early during her home in Middlesbrough in Britain.  After really few complications and only a integrate of pushes, she delivered her daughter – with her partner Mark by her side.  

However, when tiny Jessie was born, she wasn’t breathing, so O’Riordan immediately called a paramedics.

As an ambulance raced to her home, a user told Mark to perform CPR on Jessie – though he was in shock.  That’s when O’Riordan took matters into her possess hands.

“I pinched her nose and started floating into her mouth since she was blue,” O’Riordan told BBC News.

Minutes later, paramedics arrived and started behaving chest compressions on Jessie.  

“We got Amy on a bracket and placed Jess on her stomach for regard and so (we) could keep giving compressions,” Colin Gibson, one of a Redcar paramedics, told BBC News.

Once a group arrived during James Cook Hospital, O’Riordan pronounced her daughter gave out a tiny whimper.  Now 1-month old, Jessie is still on oxygen though is “thriving.”

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