A mother whose daughter choked on a Yorkshire pudding saved her life with skills she had learned on a £1 first aid course just five days earlier.
Rachel Davidson heard three-year-old Holly coughing and turned to see her clutching her throat and gasping for breath with her ‘eyes rolling’.
The 33-year-old said she was ‘terrified’ – but as she rushed to help, it seemed as if the course tutor was ‘talking me through it in my mind’.
‘I laid her over my arm with her head slightly tilted and hit her with sharp blows between the shoulder blades – out popped the Yorkshire pudding,’ she said.
Mrs Davidson had been given first aid training at work but took the £1 course because it was designed for parents.
The architects’ receptionist spent two hours learning at a children’s centre in her home town of Skipton, North Yorkshire.
‘Everything was so fresh in my mind I knew instinctively what to do,’ said the mother of two, who has a five-month-old baby, Bethany. ‘I dread to think what could have happened had I not been on the course.’
She added: ‘Holly is absolutely fine now, back to her old self, running around at 100 miles an hour.’