{"id":100,"date":"2007-01-14T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-01-15T01:27:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T01:27:49","slug":"i-need-to-learn-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"I need to learn First Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scary moment this evening &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dalelane.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grace<\/a> choked on a banana. <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s fine now, although I guess that&#8217;s kinda obvious. If she wasn&#8217;t, writing a blog post about it wouldn&#8217;t have been high on my list of priorities!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d given her a banana, a big chunk of which she shoved in her gob and swallowed without chewing. It got stuck, and she couldn&#8217;t breathe. She panicked: tried to spit it out but couldn&#8217;t; tried to cry but couldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>We managed to get it free by holding her pointing downwards. After what felt like a lifetime (but was probably only a few seconds) out came a solid lump of unchewed banana. <\/p>\n<p>The little monster aged me 20 years tonight! A basic First Aid and Resuscitation course was included in the antenatal classes we went on before she was born, but to be honest, I didn&#8217;t feel all that confident or in control when it came to it this evening &#8211; that 40 minute introduction a couple of years ago felt very distant.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m thinking that I need to learn what to do if this happens again. St John Ambulance run <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"St John Ambulance: Emergency Life Support (Child and Infant)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sja.org.uk\/training\/courses\/public\/Emergency-Life-Support-Child.asp\">a course which looks like the sort of thing that I want<\/a>, but not near me. I&#8217;ll keep looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scary moment this evening &#8211; Grace choked on a banana. She&#8217;s fine now, although I guess that&#8217;s kinda obvious. If she wasn&#8217;t, writing a blog post about it wouldn&#8217;t have been high on my list of priorities! I&#8217;d given her a banana, a big chunk of which she shoved in her gob and swallowed without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}