‘Save My Baby!’: Watch the Incredible Video of McDonald’s Employees Fighting to Save the Life of a 14-Month-Old Girl Choking on a Fry
- Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:09pm by
Jason Howerton
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What was supposed to be an enjoyable family outing at a McDonald’s restaurant turned into an absolute nightmare for the parents of the 14-month-old baby girl.
The parents, identified as Tevita and Glory, were getting seated at the fast food restaurant when their daughter suddenly began choking on a french fry. The 14-month-old apparently stopped breathing, causing the parents to rush the child to the counter in the front of the McDonald’s in Sydney, Australia to seek help from employees, the Daily Mail reports.
A number of staff members quickly surround the choking baby girl and attempt to assist the terrified parents by rubbing and patting her back, trying to dislodge the fry from her throat. Her mother can be seen crying hysterically while she watches strangers attempt to save her daughter’s life.
(Source: YouTube)
Restaurant Manager James Hatcher told Channel 9′s “A Current Affair” that the mother was screaming: “Save my baby, she’s choking, she’s not breathing!” By the time he had begun trying to save the child, she was already turning blue, he added.
McDonald’s employees were reportedly receiving instructions over the phone from emergency personnel.
One of the customer’s, Naomi Donovan, also stepped in to try to save the girl’s life. She recounted her experience.
“At the time I grabbed her she was limp, really limp, going blue she wasn’t breathing,” Donovan said. “She’s in my hands, I’m staring at her parents screaming and crying.”
After three minutes, which had to feel like an eternity to the child’s parents, the young girl finally starts to breath again.
Doctors said the 14-month-old girl had suffered from a seizure, which caused her to choke. She was kept in a hospital overnight for observation but was able to return home the next day.
The McDonald’s employees were honored with an award for their heroic actions. The incident occurred last month.
Watch the unbelievable video below:
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Comments (64)
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:52pmOh God, why producest Thou so many idiotic parents? Why whisperedest Thou not into their dummy ears that it is not good to feed a 14-months young baby with junk food?
Report Post »Dear God, Thou disapponest me!
Restored One
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:35pmGlad the child is ok.
As for the comments about punctuation and spelling………..I have been commenting since the conception of the Blaze; the spelling and grammar from the writers and the bloggers is horrible. If I were a troll following most conservative sites, all they need to do is post some of the reports and comments, they are atrocious (and I am sure some of you need to look at a dictionary to see if I spelt that right). Don’t attack me, I am not a teacher, but I make sure that my grammar and spelling are correct. Good grammar is a reflection of myself if I am to be taken seriously. Got Mr. Webster right next to me.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:55pm@RESTORED ONE:
Thank you for a wonderful and comprehensive English lesson.
I’ll try to restore my damaged sight and my damaged lungs that prevent me from normal breathing and hinder me in concentrating on my writing and hopefully I will do a lot less errors in both grammar and spelling.
Meanwhile, I would appreciate very much, if you can write me in my mother tongue (which is Russian,) at least as bad as I write in English.
Thank you for your attention and criticism.
Report Post »Regards.
P.S. Are you “restored one” from drinking or something else?
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:02am@RESTORED ONE:
Is it possible that you took my joking use of Old English pronouns for grammar and spelling errors?
Report Post »May be, you took even Biblical words for errors in grammar and spelling: “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat”?
loriann12
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 7:45amAs far as grammer goes, is anyone else having a problem with the comments box glitching and you type something and only half of it shows up?
As to the OP, YES it is stupid to feed a 14 month old child WHOLE fries. At least if you’re going to give a child that young junk food, tear the fries up into bite size pieces.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:27am@restoredone I’m relatively sure “spelt” is a type of wheat.
Report Post »joxercat
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:18pmIll be you are a closet junkie! You eat all the junk food that you can and just try to make it appear that you hate it! Did you read the article? If you had you would have read that the baby had a seizure and that is what caused her to choke on the food. It has noting to do with it being junk food and who made you the food police anyway! Good grief for the days when no one cared what everyone else was eating and kept their comments to themselves.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:39pm@JOXERCAT
Dear Cat,
1. I’m trying to understand your phrase: “Ill be you are a closet junkie!”
What language is it?
2. “Did you read the article?…the baby had a seizure and that is what caused her to choke on the food.” This your phrase shows that you have no slightest trace of knowledge of medicine and blindly trust illiterate journalists:
Report Post »a) There is no such thing as an abstract “seizure”. Seizures are of different types: cardiac, apoplectic, epileptic, etc.
It can be, though, a spasm of something (in this case – tonic spasm of oesophagus (gullet)).
Since the girl was choking, it means that a foreign material, in this case – fry, has jammed in the gullet and caused a spasm of it.
The journalist’s “seizure” didn’t occur out from nothing; it has been triggered by the food inappropriate for a 14-month young creature.
I didn’t call for “food police”. I just called the parents IDIOTS.
OhioSmitty
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:47pmhttp://www.partnersforsafety.com/images/choking2.jpg
Report Post »perry1980
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:36pmGood for McDonalds employee. Hope the mother does not sue the.
Report Post »giving French Fry’s to a 14 month old? baaad idea. mom
lwoot
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:37amI am compelled to respond to all the posts about how stupid this mom is to let her 14 month (1yr and 2 month old) baby eat french fries (McDonalds or otherwise) . My grandson is 16 months old and because he had reflux when he was born we had to weigh down his formula with baby cereal when he was only a month old. This prompted his body and he cut 3 teeth by the time he was 3 months. He has a mouth full of teeth and has been eating table foods since before he was 1 yr old. He has gone from needing very small pieces to being able to bite off and chew his food. Every child is not exactly the same in development and what one child is doing at one age another may not. Also the article says the she had a seizure and that is likely what caused her to choke. Did that get skimmed over by some of the commentators? This reaction of what a crappy mom is ridiculous. I bet this scared that Mom so bad she will have to fight the desire to keep her child on pureed foods until she is 20.
Report Post »woemcat
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:22pm“One of the customer’s, Naomi Donovan, also stepped in to try to save the girl’s life. She recounted her experience.”
It should read: One of the customers, Naomi Donovan, also stepped in to try to save the girl’s life. She recounted her experience.
PLEASE PROOFREAD YOUR ARTICLES BEFORE POSTING!!!!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:36pmI was more interested in the content of the article. Thank goodness we aren’t all anal retentive..
Report Post »Transmogrifier
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:57pmOnly morons use apostrophes to form plurals. Unfortunately I have long ago given up on the Blaze in this respect. They would do well to employ an unpaid 8th grader as an editor, as long as said 8th grader had gone to private school, not public.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:08pm@Transmogrifier
Name calling, my my how 8th grade.
Report Post »Kenszen
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:15pmmeterioclimbo, you aren’t exactly innocent yourself.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:08pmKenszen
The term anal-retentive (also anally retentive), commonly abbreviated to anal,[1] is used conversationally to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Report Post »Origins
loriann12
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 7:48am@Transmogrifier
I was going to say, don’t employ my 8th grader to spell check. He tests in the top 1% on academic tests, has been reading on a 12th grade level for several years and is failing English.
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:01pmGosh! Sooo scary! At least it had a happy ending.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:56pmIf this was chick-fil-a they’d ask if the mother was a lesbian, first.
MAX0O1
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:37pmYA KNOW ALL YOU LEFT WING Bas***d are so full of hate an venom,you cannot be relieved
Report Post »that a beautiful child has been saved. ALWAYS spewing hate filled venom!!!
Verceofreason
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:18pmWhat? Are not I, entitled to freedom of speech too?
Report Post »I accept the consequences. why shouldn’t Mr. Cathy?
Mr. Cathy, sounds like a hairdresser. Maybe he shortened it from Mr. Catherine?
PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:36pmOf course you are *entitled* to freedom of speech, but last I heard, hate speech is a criminal offense.
Report Post »You are also entitled to common decency and mutual respect.. Perhaps you might consider making that a goal.
hayesstephen
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:41pmStrangers step up and save a baby, a beautiful act of love for another human being. But you lefties see everything in which to spew you hate over everywhere. Gays (you) are the most hateful people on the planet. Gay White Liberal Trash especially have hate for everything. Even themselves. No wonder that gays have the highest suicide rate of anyone. I pray that Yeshau grants Paradise TO ALL who commit suicide. To live with and in hate every day of your life would drive a person crazy.
Report Post »sueacworth
Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:52amYou are just stupid! What a stupid remark. Grow Up!
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:54pmFeeding you baby fast food? really? Feeding a 14 month old a french fry? Really? Honestly, I wonder just how some people manage to raise their kids at all. Great job to the McDonalds employees for trying to help, but you don’t perform CPR on a chocking infant. The parents will probably lawyer up and sue McDonalds for not putting a bilingual warning label on the french fry.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:10pm@COLORADOMAVERICK Climb down off your make believe sanctimonious soap box. You raise your kids the way you see fit and others will do the same. Accidents happen. 14 mo. old babies chew on french fries everyday without problems. You actually sound like a Liberal wanting everybody to subscribe to your beliefs.
Report Post »Sara123
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:43pmIt was very loving of all those people to answer the mom’s call for help. Wise to get emergency guidance on the telephone while waiting for the ambulance.
Good peeps. God Bless them all.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:45pmAmen Sara. Amen
Report Post »sirocco78
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:18pmfeeding a fourteen month old mcdonalds french fries!!!!??? *%&%^$* MORON
Report Post »resme
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:13pmCan’t fix stupid, Parent already getting a 14th month old child addicted to fast food…. Seriously who feeds a toddler french fries???
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 8:55pmI do, what you going to do about it? My kid is now 4 had I got him a Happy Meal and I had a BigMac. Take your food Nazi ass ideology and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:10pmAs a rule I go straight by trolls, I read your reply by accident. You, sir or madam are disgusting, foolish and evil. I will remember your name, and click right past it.
Report Post »GRINTSUM
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:09pmYou should change your name to “Voice of Derangement.”
Report Post »jlfonz
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:50pmOMG–who in the hell feeds a 14 month old french fries. Is Mcdonalds gonna have to put a disclaimer on every french fry sleeve “we are not responsible for stupid parents”?
Report Post »BAPDCO
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:12pmYou need to read the article again. It says the doctors determined the baby had a seizure which caused her to choke (not the french fry).
Report Post »TNTrooper
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:41pm@HI_DON — yo uare absolutely correct. CPR should ONLY be performed after certain criteria have been met. Chocking is not one of them. A swift, but gentle sweep of the mouth to start with, followed by infant heimlich. Never perform CPR on someone who’s heart is beating and the air way is blocked.
Report Post »thibx
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:40pmbelieve me when it your kid its hard to be calm. i know been there.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:35pmCan’t watch without getting chocked up. Good thing they were out and had help. The parents don’t seem to be very capable in an emergency. Better get some basic first aid training if you are going to be a parent. Thank God she is fine.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:49pmYes — but publik skool edjukation doesn’t require 8th graders to take basic first aid eni mor. — Either way — this happens EVERYDAY – ‘this’ just happened to be a ‘uTube moment’ — another ‘emotion jerker’ for the “awwww!” crowd and the ‘haters” crowd to press the adrenals for some stupid natural drug to ‘feel involved,’ — This society overall one ‘would think’ has an addiction to ‘morbid curiosity,‘ flaming on ’hate’ — BOTH sides. — The reality is — 90% could care less…. like the ‘tea’ party — “silent majority.’:-)
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:32pmIm glad she’s ok – but – isn’t this more of a story for Readers Digest?
Report Post »canadianlady
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:49pmIt’s more worthy of our attention than the claptrap that passes off for news on the Alphabet networks.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:30pmHappy ending. Nothing more need be said.
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:29pmA lot of things piss me off about this country but before my faith in America’s citizens is able to completely decay I see a story like this. America is filled with a bunch of people who are always willing and able to help others. God Bless America. God Bless our citizens of this great country. God Bless capitalism which enables us to have the financial ablitiy to help others.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:08pm“The 14-month-old apparently stopped breathing, causing the parents to rush the child to the counter in the front of the McDonald’s in Sydney, Australia to seek help from employees, the Daily Mail reports.” -The Blaze
> But, yes ….. God Bless America.
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:28pmI don’t have kids but if I did I would brush up on my CPR especially if I had a 14 month old girl prone to seizures. I’m glad it had a happy ending!
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:26pmWhen something like this happens the important thing is stay clam, and just do the chest thrusts, and back blows like your supposed to. happy to see the baby was alright!
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:24pmOkay, Mayor doomburg, time to outlaw McDonald restaurants.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:30pmMy thought exactly!
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:35pmNo we don’t need to outlaw McDonalds we need to outlaw french fries. It’s child abuse just feeding them to your kids. We should chop off parents hands that feed their kids anything that the Federal Government doesn’t approve of. Ya that’ll stop this epidemic.
Report Post »billrow
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:20pmBreathe not breath
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:17pm…
Report Post »What a horrible thing for a parent to go through.
Hope the baby has no lasting effects from being oxygen deprived.
God bless everyone involved with saving the life of this precious child.
Nepenthe
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:16pmPraise the Lord that she is ok. This is why people, especially parents, should become familiar with basic life saving techniques. The moment the little girl became unresponsive, they should have began CPR. I just thank God that everything worked out!
Report Post »HI_Don
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:31pmI agree everyone needs to know basic emergency response, but immediately beginning CPR is not the answer here. Looking at the video, too many folks all huddled around all trying to help instead of one person taking charge could have been a disaster. Along with no one clearly doing the right thing. You do not immediately do CPR if someone goes non-responsive, especially in this case where the issue is a choking victim. The right answer was to clear the airway, first finger swipe to try to move the obstruction, then infant Heimlich. Watching everyone lay her on the counter and take turns pushing on her chest isn’t the right first aid. The person who grabbed her up and and made some real attempts at thrusts saved her life. Doing CPR could have forced the object deeper and tighter as an obstruction. Not trying to be harsh if what you meant to say was immediately start the ABC’s of first aid, but can’t let anyone think you jump in and start the kiss of life anytime someone seems unconscious is the right answer.
Report Post »Nepenthe
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:50pmFirst and foremost, as has been prescribed by AHA for many years now, a person should never perform a blind finger sweep for any reason. The only time you finger-sweep is when the object is clearly visible. Second, the heimlich should be performed as long as the person (infant/child) is concious. Once the person becomes unresponsive, CPR should begin at once in order to keep the heart beating and blood flowing throughout the body. Chest compressions will not only keep the heart beating but has a strong chance of also disloging the object.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:03pmYou’re an idiot.
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