A mum was able to save her little girl from choking to death with skills she had learnt on a £1 first aid course less than a week earlier.
Three-year-old Holly Davidson was eating her dinner when she started to choke. Her mum Rachel turned around to see her little girl coughing, clutching her throat and gasping for breath.
The 33-year-old mum said she was “terrified” but as she rushed for help, the skills she had learnt at the first aid course only five days previously kicked in.
“I laid her over my arm with her head slightly tilted and hit her with sharp blows between the shoulder blades - out popped the Yorkshire pudding,” she said.
The mum, an architect's receptionist from North Yorkshire, had been given first aid training at her workplace but took the £1 course because it was specially designed for parents.
“Everything was so fresh in my mind I knew instinctively what to do,” said the mother of two, who has a five-month-old baby, Bethany. “I dread to think what could have happened had I not been on the course.”
The mum said Holly was now “back to her old self”.
