Asda security guard saves toddler's life with CPR
SuppliedA security guard who saved a toddler's life with CPR has urged everyone to learn first aid for children if they get the chance.
Molly Haggath, who works at an Asda store in South Bank, Teesside, administered the life-saving first aid when one-year-old Blake fell unconscious and stopped breathing.
She said she only did a first aid course because she had three nieces, adding: "You don't realise a situation like this could happen anywhere."
Mother Elisha Mcgeehin, from Middlesbrough, said she and her partner were "absolutely terrified" when Blake fell ill in the shop on 26 February. She said he was doing a lot better but was still unwell.
Her family was shopping when her 13-month-old "went a really strange colour, as if he went grey, and then he started to turn blue".
Mcgeehin started calling for help, which was answered by Haggath while another worker called an ambulance.
"I thought that was it. I thought I'd lost my little boy," she said.
SuppliedBlake was laid on the floor and it took several rounds of CPR for him to start breathing again.
The security guard said: "I'm just glad that I was there.
"I had to maintain composure whilst they were in the store, and then after they left I just sort of broke down in an office out the back."
She said first aid for babies and children "should be a life skill that everyone has".
"If you have an opportunity to be first aid trained, I would grab it up."
Deborah Fairbotham, who runs Mini First Aid classes in the area, told BBC Radio Tees very few people knew first aid for children.
"Our big mantras is do something rather than do nothing, a little bit of training helps a very long way," she said.
Mcgeehin's family visited the store a couple of weeks later to thank Haggath and give her flowers.
She echoed that people should take up first aid training, saying they were "very lucky" that Haggarth had done so.