What to do when your baby is choking!
Hi friends! Long time no talk! Let me fill you in on why I have not been as present on here. Typically, I write my posts during the babies naptimes and then after they go down for the night. Let's just say sleep has been a tricky lately but for an incredibly adorable reason. The babies are official twin talkers! I will put them down for their two and a half hour nap and half way through I start to hear babbling on the monitor. Oliver is usually the little culprit! He will stand up facing Olivia and look down and scream in baby language until she wakes up. Then she stands facing him and they will talk for a solid 40 minutes. While this melts my momma heart it has also thrown off their entire schedule causing sleep to be a little rough- along with my work schedule! Anyways, I have been wanting to write to you all about Olivia's choking incident that happened two weeks ago and shed some light on what went down! I never thought I would be in that situation. You know, the unbelievably scary one where you turn to see your child choking on their food. I am not just talking where they are kind of gagging and there is a lot of coughing and watery eyes involved. I'm talking about their eyes are swelling, while turning purple, mouth is open but not a single sound is coming out and they are looking at you with pure shock and desperation. Now, I will be the first to admit that I HATE reading blog posts like the one I am about to write to all of you. Seriously, everytime I read a post that shares a scary experience like this it leaves me feeling overly paranoid and frightened that the exact same situation will happen to me! But here is the thing, sometimes I do think being a little scared is good for us. It keeps us aware, educated, and conscious of particular situations. Before Olivias choking incident occured, I stumbled opon a post on Instagram where a momma shared a very similar story. Her daughter was choking on a snack and she reacted very fast to clear her airway. When she shared her story it made me so paranoid that I watched CPR training for babies on YouTube for an hour straight to refresh [...]