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Good Samaritan trained in CPR steps in to save choking 10-day-old girl
Andrew Mollenbeck
Good Samaritan trained in CPR steps in to save choking 10-day-old girl
VACCINATED. STACEY: A HEARTWARMING STORY YOU WILL ONLY SEE ON KCCI. TWO MOMS BROUGHT TOGETHER DURING A TERRIFYING MOMENT WHEN A NEWBORN STOPPED BREATHING. STE:EV A STRANGER PERFORMED CPR THAT SAVED THE BABY鈥橲 LIFE. KCCI鈥橲 ANDREW MOLLENBECK IS LIVE AT THE SAM鈥橲 CLUB IN ANKENY WHERE THEIR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER. ANDREW: THE BABY WAS JUST TEN DAYS OLD WHEN SHE STARTED CHOKING AND STOPPED BREATHING. HER MOTHER WAS DESPERATE FOR HELP. AND ANOTHER MOM TRAINEINPRD OWSHED UP TO HELP. AN EMOTIONAL EMBRACE, THIS TIME WITH HAPPY TEARS, LESS THAN EON DAY AFTER THESE TWO MOMS MET IN VERY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. AZARAYAH ISRAEL STARTED CHOKING MONDAY AFTERNOON RIGHT AFTER HER MOM, LASHA, FINISHED SPPHOING. >> I鈥橫 TRYING TO PAT HER BACK AND SHE鈥橲 STILL NOT BREATHG.IN MY HUSBAND TRIED, NOTHING. BY THAT TIME I STARTED PANICKING BECAUSE BECAUSE MY BABY鈥橲 NOT BREATHING. SO I鈥橫 YELLING. I鈥橫 LOOKING OUARND TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY TO COME HE.LP ANDREW: ONE OF THE FIRST TO HELP WAS AIMEE GOOD, A LICENSED FOSTER PARENT WHO GOES THROUGH REGULAR CPR CERTIFICATION. >> I REALLY JUST HAD TO DO A COUPLE CHEST COMPRESSIONS, AND SHE WAS RED AGAIN, SHE WAS MOVING. SHE WAS STILL CLEARLY DISTREEDSS BUT SHE WAS NOT BLUE, SHE WAS NOT PALE. ANDREW: AS THE INTENSITY OF ETH MOMENT SETTLED DOWN, BOTH MOMS BEGAN THINKING OF EACH OTHER. >> I WAS REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN I FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED. I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE TSHI BABY IS OK, AND BY CHANCE I JUST HAPPENED TSEO E ON SOCIAL MEADI THAT THE MOM HAD POSTED THAT SHE WAS FINE AND THAT SHE SWA THANKFUL, AND I REACHED OUT, AND WE EXCHANGED A FEW COMMENTS. I WAS JUSTER VY THANKFUL THAT SHE WAS OK. ANDREW AFTER THEY CONNECTED ON : SOCIAL MEDIA THEY MADE PLANS TO CONNECT IN PERSON. >> I鈥橵EEE BN CRYING ALL DAY THINKING ABOUT IT LIKE, I COULD VEHA LOST HER IF YOU WASN鈥橳 THERE. ANDREW: YOUNG AZARAYAH HAS BEEN TO THE DOCTOR WHO CONFIRMED SHE IS IN GOOD HEALTH. LASHA SAYS THE SCARY MOMENIST ALSO MOTIVATING HER TO BE PREPARED TO HELP OTHERS. >> I JUST THINK CPR, THAT鈥橲 EON THING ON MY LIST. I HAVE TO GET IT DONE, NOT JUST FOR MY KIDS BUT FOR OTHER PEOPLE鈥橲 KIDS ANDREW: AFTER THE MOMS MET TODAY, THEY EXCHANGED INFORMATION TO KEEP THEIR FAMILIES CONNECTED IN THE FUTURE. IN ANKENY, ANDREW MOLLENBECK, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA鈥橲 NEWS LEAR.DE STEVE: A GREAT STORYHE TRE WITH A HAPPY ENDING. THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS BOTH OFFER CPR CERTIFICATION CLASSES. GO TO EITHER ORGANIZATNSIO WEBSITE TO SIGN UP FOR TRAIN
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Good Samaritan trained in CPR steps in to save choking 10-day-old girl
Andrew Mollenbeck
Two mothers will be indelibly linked by the successful effort to save a 10-day-old baby who choked and stopped breathing at a Sam's Club parking lot in Ankeny. Azarayah Israel started choking Monday afternoon after one of her siblings apparently tried to give her a bottle. The newborn's mom, Lasha, struggled to get her girl to start breathing again. "I'm trying to pat her back because she's still not breathing," Israel said. "My husband tried, nothing. By that time I started panicking because my baby's not breathing. So I'm yelling. I'm looking around trying to find somebody to come help."Several people responded to her cries for help. One of them was Aimee Good, who goes through regular CPR certification as part of being a foster parent.She placed a blanket down on the parking lot and began compressions. "I really just had to do a couple chest compressions, and she was red again, she was moving," Good said. "She was still clearly distressed but she was not blue, she was not pale."Azarayah was in much better shape by the time medical professionals arrived. The emotions hit Good after she knew the baby was safe. "I had a little bit of a cry afterward," she said. "You're emotions kind of come to a peak and start to plummet."Shortly after the moms parted ways due to the emergency, they started looking for each other on social media to reconnect. They didn't even have names to search due to the urgency of the moment in which they had met. Once they did find each other, the two moms quickly made plans to meet in person. "I've been crying all day thinking about it like, I could have lost if you weren't there," Israel said. "I just wanted to personally thank you face-to-face because it was so fast, everything was going on, so I wasn't able to talk to whoever helped."The moms agreed to stay in touch after their stories so powerfully overlapped. And for Israel, there is a new motivation to find a CPR class. "That's one thing on my list," she said. "I have to get it done, not just for my kids but for other people's kids."
ANKENY, Iowa —

Two mothers will be indelibly linked by the successful effort to save a 10-day-old baby who choked and stopped breathing at a Sam's Club parking lot in Ankeny.

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Azarayah Israel started choking Monday afternoon after one of her siblings apparently tried to give her a bottle. The newborn's mom, Lasha, struggled to get her girl to start breathing again.

"I'm trying to pat her back because she's still not breathing," Israel said. "My husband tried, nothing. By that time I started panicking because my baby's not breathing. So I'm yelling. I'm looking around trying to find somebody to come help."

Several people responded to her cries for help. One of them was Aimee Good, who goes through regular CPR certification as part of being a foster parent.

She placed a blanket down on the parking lot and began compressions.

"I really just had to do a couple chest compressions, and she was red again, she was moving," Good said. "She was still clearly distressed but she was not blue, she was not pale."

Azarayah was in much better shape by the time medical professionals arrived. The emotions hit Good after she knew the baby was safe.

"I had a little bit of a cry afterward," she said. "You're emotions kind of come to a peak and start to plummet."

Shortly after the moms parted ways due to the emergency, they started looking for each other on social media to reconnect. They didn't even have names to search due to the urgency of the moment in which they had met.

Once they did find each other, the two moms quickly made plans to meet in person.

"I've been crying all day thinking about it like, I could have lost [Azarayah] if you weren't there," Israel said. "I just wanted to personally thank you face-to-face because it was so fast, everything was going on, so I wasn't able to talk to whoever helped."

The moms agreed to stay in touch after their stories so powerfully overlapped.

And for Israel, there is a new motivation to find a CPR class.

"That's one thing on my list," she said. "I have to get it done, not just for my kids but for other people's kids."