PATRIOTS GAME, WHICH HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY EVENING. DOUG: THANK YOU. A FRIGHTENING CLOSE CALL FOR A BROCKTON FAMILY. ANTOINETTE: KATIE IS BACK TO EXPLAIN HOW THE CITY’S POLICE CHIEF GAVE THIS STORY A HAPPY ENDING AFTER A BABY STARTED CHOKING. KATIE: EVERY PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE BECAME A REALITY FOR ONE BROCKTON FAMILY. 3-MONTH OLD AUDREY WAS CHOKING ON MUCUS YESTERDAY MORNING AND SHE WAS UNABLE TO BREATHE. HER MOTHER, JULIETTE, FRANTICALLY TRIED TO HELP, AS FIRST RESPONDERS RACED TO THEIR HOME. FIRST ON SCENE WAS BROCKTON’S POLICE CHIEF, WHO JUMPED INTO ACTION. >> THE CHILD WAS LIMP. I QUICKLY TURNED THE CHI AROUND AND GAVE IT SOME BACK PULLS TO FREE IT UP FROM ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUSING AN OBSTRUCTION. >> I’M SO THANKFUL I STILL HAVE MY BABY GIRL BECAUSE I COULD HAVE BEEN LEAVING THIS HOSPITAL WITHOUT HER, SO I’M VERY, VERY MUCH THANKFUL. KATIE: AUDREY WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE WAS KEPT OVERNIGHT FOR OBSERVATION. THIS ACTUALLY ISN’T THE FIRST TIME THE CHIEF HAS SAVED A CHILD FROM CHOKING. SO, HIS ADVICE TO NEW PARENTS, GET TRAINED IN CPR AND THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER, YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU’LL NEED THEM. ANTOIN
‘I felt helpless;’ Frantic mom grateful for Brockton officer’s help with choking child
The mother of a 3-month-old is sharing her gratitude to a Brockton police officer who helped an infant choking on a large piece of mucus.Audio from Juliette Leger’s frantic call to 911 Thursday morning shows how frantic the situation was. “I didn’t know what to do, I felt helpless,” Leger said. First responders, including Brockton police Chief Manny Gomes who happened to be nearby, raced to the mother’s home. “It’s probably the most sobering, scariest call you can get as a police officer,” Gomes said. “I don’t know about any more urgent call than that, when I say that mobilized the entire city, everyone is going,” he said. Gomes said the infant was unresponsive and limp when the mother handed the little girl to the officer. He flipped the baby over, gave her several back blows, which loosened the phlegm and eventually used his finger to clear out the obstruction so the infant could breathe again. “It is a tense situation, and after we swept that out of her mouth, she was just about as scared as I was,” Gomes said. The 3-month old was taken to a nearby hospital, and was doing okay Thursday night. “I’m so thankful that I still have my baby girl,” Leger said. “I could’ve been leaving this hospital without her, so I’m just very, very much thankful.”
BROCKTON, Mass. —
The mother of a 3-month-old is sharing her gratitude to a Brockton police officer who helped an infant choking on a large piece of mucus.
Audio from Juliette Leger’s frantic call to 911 Thursday morning shows how frantic the situation was. “I didn’t know what to do, I felt helpless,” Leger said.
First responders, including Brockton police Chief Manny Gomes who happened to be nearby, raced to the mother’s home. “It’s probably the most sobering, scariest call you can get as a police officer,” Gomes said.
“I don’t know about any more urgent call than that, when I say that mobilized the entire city, everyone is going,” he said.
Gomes said the infant was unresponsive and limp when the mother handed the little girl to the officer.
He flipped the baby over, gave her several back blows, which loosened the phlegm and eventually used his finger to clear out the obstruction so the infant could breathe again.
“It is a tense situation, and after we swept that out of her mouth, she was just about as scared as I was,” Gomes said.
The 3-month old was taken to a nearby hospital, and was doing okay Thursday night.
“I’m so thankful that I still have my baby girl,” Leger said. “I could’ve been leaving this hospital without her, so I’m just very, very much thankful.”
