How To Rescue A Drowning Child!

Here are the steps you MUST take to rescue your drowning child or someone else's drowning child to give them the best chance of survival! Watch the blog video for a full demonstration.

For a drowning baby or child, when you find them laying face down in a pool or other body of water, you don’t have time to freeze, freak out or panic, you MUST ACT-FAST!

Step 1: Yell for help and activate EMS (Emergency Medical Services) and request an AED (Automated External Defibrillator).

Step 2: Roll them over and bring them to the water's edge.

Step 3: Safely remove them and pull them away from the water.

Step 4: Begin high quality CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) and use the AED as soon as it is available.  Continue until EMS takes over or the child becomes responsive - at which point, you would place them in the recovery position and monitor them until EMS arrives.

• If no one is around to assist you, provide 5 cycles of CPR (which is approximately 2 minutes of 30 chest compressions and 2 breaths), and then activate EMS yourself and get an AED if one is available.

• Note: Depending on your size and the size of the child you are rescuing, you can perform CPR with 1 or 2 hands, whatever is easiest for you to achieve a compression depth of at least 1/3 the depth of the chest, or about about 5 cm or 2 inches.

In order to know and remember these skills, you must learn, practice and regularly refresh your lifesaving skills, just like a lifeguard does, and that’s what my online baby and child CPR and Choking training program, Lifesaving School For Parents, is all about!  Do you think a lifeguard only learns lifesaving skills once? Absolutely not! They continually update their skills so that they can protect everyone in the water, and you need to continually refresh your lifesaving skills so that you are always prepared to save your child's life at every age and stage! Don’t fall into the trap of believing that because you watched an online video about CPR or choking, that you are prepared for an emergency! No! Research shows you must observe accurate lifesaving procedures and practice them regularly in order to jump into action quickly, calmly and confidently when an emergency strikes! Lifesaving skills decay occurs quickly, in as little as 3 months, which is why regularly refreshing your skills is essential.

As a certified CPR Instructor (along with being a former swim instructor, lifeguard and examiner of lifeguarding courses), I want to help YOU to become the Lifeguard of YOUR Family, so that you can always protect what matters most! 

Here are a few ways that I can help you with this:

1. Follow @theifesavingcoach on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

2. Join my Free Prepared Parent Club at: thelifesavingcoach.com/club

3. Grab my Free WORRY-NO-MORE CPR & Choking Guide at thelifesavingcoach.com/emergency

4. Register for my Free Choking Class For Busy Parents at: thelifesavingcoach.com/choking

5. Join Lifesaving School For Parents at: thelifesavingcoach.com/preparedparent

Please be a Lifesaving Multiplier and share this with other parents so that we can reduce parent anxiety around emergencies, make the world a safer place for our children, and save more children's lives together!

 Stay Safe & ALWAYS BE PREPARED!