Boys Show Woman How to Do CPR, Help Save Infant

By Erin McClam, NBC News

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Rocky Hurt, 9, and Ethan Wilson, 10, rushed to the aid of a Georgia woman when her 12-week-old baby stopped breathing, showing her the correct way to perform CPR on an infant. They are now being credited with saving the baby's life.

March 15, 2013 Updated Mar 15, 2013 at 8:52 AM PDT

A Georgia mother says her infant son is alive today because of two neighborhood boys, ages 9 and 10, who showed her how to perform CPR when the 12-week-old baby suddenly stopped breathing.

Susanna Rohm, who lives in Marietta, told NBC affiliate WXIA in Atlanta she noticed something was “off” about her young son, Isaiah, on the frightening day last week. The boy had stopped responding to her and gone limp; when Rohm put her finger under his nose, she realized he wasn’t breathing.

She ran outside and yelled for someone to call 911, and two boys who were playing football, 9-year-old Rocky Hurt and 10-year-old Ethan Wilson, rushed to help her. Rohm says she was panicking, splashing water on the baby’s face and trying to do CPR.

The boys stopped her.

“I told her to push on the baby’s chest five to 10 times with only two fingers, tilt back the baby’s head, plug the baby’s nose and breathe into the baby’s mouth,” Rocky told WXIA.

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