Boys, ages 9 and 10, save infant’s life by showing panicked Georgia mom how to perform CPR

Med school may not be too far off for these two quick-thinking kids.
When a Georgia mom noticed that her 12-week-old son wasn’t breathing, two neighborhood boys, aged 9 and 10, swooped in to help her perform CPR. Now, she’s crediting the boys with saving her son’s life, WXIA reports.
Susanna Rohm, of Marietta, Ga., realized last Monday that something was wrong with her baby. Isaiah had gone limp.

“He just seemed nonresponsive to my smiles,” Rohm told WXIA. “Something just didn’t feel right.”
When she realized her baby wasn’t breathing, she panicked.

Rohm didn’t have a landline. In her desperation, she accidentally kicked her cell phone under the sofa, WAGA reports. Not knowing what to do, Rohm rushed outside her house, screaming for someone to call 911.

Nine-year-old Rocky Hurt and his buddy 10-year-old Ethan Wilson were throwing a football around outside when they heard Rohm’s cries for help. The two boys rushed over and found Rohm trying to revive Isaiah by splashing water on his face. She was attempting CPR.
That’s when the boys stepped in.
“And I just said, do CPR, you’re not doing it correctly,” Hurt told WXIA.


“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,” he said.
Rohm had never met the boys before, but the 9-year-old was so calm and confident that she immediately followed his directions. Seconds later, Isaiah was screaming.
“I told her that’s a good sign because the baby’s breathing,” Hurt said.

While one boy coached Rohm through CPR, the other one was waiting for the ambulance. When paramedics arrived, they took the baby to a hospital. Isaiah was later diagnosed with sleep apnea and is currently being monitored by doctors.
The boys said they learned the proper way to do CPR from posters in the cafeteria at their school, Sedalia Park Elementary.
“We just wanted to know just in case it happened,” Wilson said, “but we never knew that we’d have to do that.”
“They have incredible skills that I didn’t have in that moment,” Rohm told WAGA.
“If Rocky hadn’t been playing outside, I definitely wouldn’t have (my baby) in my lap right now,” she said.

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