A newborn baby in Georgia nearly choked to death, but thankfully a police officer saved her life. Now the parents have asked the officer if they’ll be the baby’s Godfather.
Last month, Patrol Officer Kenneth Knox responded to a call about a ‘child choking’. When he arrived, he found the two-month-old baby wasn’t breathing.
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“We were sitting outside, in my car, and all of a sudden she started gasping for air and white stuff was coming out of her nose and mouth,” says Kristen Parham, the baby’s mother, to FOX 5.
The parents tried to help the baby but were unsuccessful. Ms. Parham called 911.
By the time Knox got there, baby Ma’Yavi was turning blue. He performed reverse-CPR on the baby, clearing the blockage out of her throat.
Ma’Yavi started breathing again and smiled at Knox, then began to cry. Knox said her crying was ‘music to his ears.’
“[O]ut of my 25 years being a cop this is my greatest and most profound accomplishment and it made every second of those 25 years worth it all,” Knox wrote on Facebook. He posted an adorable picture of himself holding Ma’Yavi after the incident. “I am forever humbled and changed by this. little miss Parham will forever be a part of my life,” he concluded.
A week later, the family contacted Knox to ask him to be Ma’Yavi’s Godfather. He answered with a resounding yes and calls the baby his ‘angel.’
“I know he is a great person and my baby will love him,” Parham told FOX 5. “Every time she sees him, she gives him a big smile.”
What’s truly inspiring about this story is that the officer is white, and the baby’s black. Race shouldn’t be an issue in this day and age, but unfortunately it all too often is. With horribly strained relations between the black community and police officers, it’s always nice to hear a positive story.
Source: Newsiosity
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