The gestures that save are not known to everyone.
Marie, a young mother living in a Coallia emergency shelter in Les Mureaux (Yvelines), had a terrible experience a few days ago.
On Monday April 5, she panicked when she discovered that Chloe, her one and a half month old baby, was suffocating while taking her bottle.
“Something was wrong,” says the 25-year-old mother.
I placed it on my shoulder but she had closed her eyes and was no longer breathing… Milk was coming out of her nose, her face was turning blue.
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Marie goes out into the corridor, with her baby in her arms, to seek help but her young neighbors, quickly on the spot, are unable to help the child get his breath back.
The 17th was dialed but by the time the firefighters arrived, the baby would probably not have come back to life.
“Everyone was in a panic, no one knew what to do,” retrospectively confides Fatima, a social worker in the home.
Finally, this lady came and calmed everyone down.
"She took my daughter by the feet and she breathed and cried again," says Marie, still in shock a week after the fact.
I can't thank her enough.
Without this granny, my baby wouldn't be here.
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"We must salute this heroic gesture as it should"
The grandmother in question lives on the same floor and is called Rabeaa.
Mother of five children, she is also the grandmother of ten grandchildren, some of whom she has never seen because they were born in Algeria, her country of origin.
"I heard screaming and I did not really think, testifies the woman of 69 years.
The mother was crying and said:
My baby is going to die, my baby is going to die…
I told her not to worry and I took the little one in my arms.
I blocked her nose so that she could breathe through her mouth and she started to breathe again… ”
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“This heroic gesture should be saluted as it should,” adds Fatima.
It's nice to see that people are still helping each other today.
In our home, it is often difficult for our residents, and this beautiful story has done the greatest good for everyone staying here.
Since April 2017, Rabeaa has been living in a small, unsanitary room with damp walls, with her husband Abaas, who has had heart surgery several times.
Marie lives alone with little Chloé, and her two eldest children Eburnie (5 years old) and Leslie (3 years old).
Today, the baby is well and the mother had him examined in the medical center in the city, where it was believed to be the beginning of bronchiolitis.
This (young) life saved brought joy to a whole home, where distress and human misery usually mingle.