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By Jack Beresford
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The dramatic moment police responded to a 911 call from a new mom whose baby had stopped breathing has been captured on camera.
Jami-Marie Owen, from Alabama, shared heart-stopping Ring security camera footage of officers rushing to provide assistance to her TikTok @jm_owen, praising the police as "heroes" for what they did. "I will forever be thankful for our first responders," Owen wrote alongside the clip. "They arrived at our home four minutes after we called them. They literally ran from their cars to help save my baby."
Owen, who is a mother of four, had been nursing her baby daughter to sleep when every new parent’s worst nightmare began to play out. "She wasn’t feeling that great, and I was trying to comfort her and keep her hydrated," Owen told Newsweek. "She spiked a fever quickly, causing her to have a febrile seizure. She began convulsing, and I started screaming."
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Owen and her husband immediately called 911. At the same time, their daughter’s situation worsened. "Our baby stopped convulsing, and her lips started to turn blue," Owen said. "She stopped breathing, and we began CPR. My husband eventually tilted her head back, and she received oxygen and began breathing again."
Knowing CPR can often be the difference between life and death. CPR helps to manually circulate oxygenated blood to vital organs like the heart and brain, buying someone time until professional help arrives.
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It can also help prevent permanent effects such as brain damage due to lack of oxygen and significantly boosts survival rates. The fact is that not enough Americans know how to administer CPR. A Cleveland Clinic survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults found just 54 percent know how to perform CPR.
Despite the terrifying nature of what was unfolding, Owen and her husband’s knowledge of CPR made all the difference when their daughter stopped breathing. "I was not calm," Owen said. "I was yelling. My husband was extremely calm. That is his personality, and I am so thankful for that. However, being first aid- and CPR-certified, I knew what to do, even though I was terrified."
Police and emergency services took control of the situation soon after and their daughter was taken to hospital. Owen was inconsolable for the entire journey there. "I didn’t know she was going to be OK until we got to the hospital," she said. "She was so out of it that I thought she had neurological damage from being without oxygen."
Thankfully, their daughter has since made a full recovery. "She is perfect," Owen said. "She’s sassy, talking, and back to her normal sweet self. We have to watch her fevers because now we know they can rise very quickly, causing her to have a seizure."
A few days after they got home, Owen watched the Ring camera footage back from that night. It made her feel emotional then and still does. "I cry every time I see the cops running. They ran to save our baby, and I can never thank them enough," she said.
Looking back, Owen is appreciative of everything those officers and the other emergency service workers did to save her baby. She is also appreciative of the fact she had an Owlet baby monitor, which first alerted her to her daughter’s condition.
"We truly believe this might have had a different outcome if it weren't for Owlet," Owen said. More than anything, she hopes her story encourages other parents to learn CPR. "I pray that parents become first aid- and CPR-certified," she said.
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