If you ever find your baby is not responding to you, you will give them the best chance of survival if you know what to do. If you have found your baby unresponsive and not breathing normally, you'll need to perform baby CPR.
Place them on a firm surface and open their airway. With one hand on the forehead, gently tilt their head back. With your finger tip, gently lift the chin to open the airway. Pick out any visible obstructions from the mouth and nose.
Step one is 'puff'. Take a breath, put your lips around your baby's mouth and nose make a seal. Blow gently and steadily for up to one second. The chest should rise. Remove your mouth and watch the chest fall. That's one rescue breath or 'puff'. Do this five times.
Step two is 'pump', or chest compressions. Put two fingers in the centre of your baby's chest and push down a third of the depth of the chest. Release the pressure, allowing the chest to come back up before pressing back down again. Repeat this 30 times at a rate of 100-120 pumps per minute. This is quite quick. After 30 chest pumps, open the airway and give a further two puffs. Continue to alternate between thirty chest pumps and two puffs.
So remember: if your baby's unresponsive and not breathing, call for help. Ask a helper to call 999 or 112 for emergency help. If you're on your own use the speakerphone and start CPR soon as possible. If you don't have a speakerphone, do CPR for a minute before calling for emergency help.
Give five initial puffs, covering both the nose and mouth, then 30 chest pumps with two fingers to the centre of the chest. Continue CPR with 30 pumps and two puffs until help arrives. And that's how you do baby CPR.
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