There are certain things you pick up as a parent that no one quite prepared you for. How to function on four hours of sleep. How to negotiate with a three-year-old. How to identify which cry means what. But there’s one skill that barely comes up in parenting conversations, despite being genuinely, immediately useful in a way very few things are: knowing what to do when someone stops breathing.
It’s not a comfortable topic. Most of us prefer not to think about it. But the truth is that cardiac arrests, severe choking incidents, and sudden medical emergencies happen every year to people who had no warning and no reason to expect them — including children, parents, and healthy adults in their thirties and forties.
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