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If you’re like most parents who are still monitoring their two-year-olds’ pee pees and poops, you’re looking forward to potty training your toddler and moving closer and closer to a diaper-free household. And who could blame you? In addition to being expensive and messy, diapers may even serve as daycare roadblocks. So, it’s in everyone’s best interest to get the job done sooner rather than later…
There may be several factors combined to make your toddler more subject to choking on food than older children and adults. Even once they have a full set of teeth, their chewing and swallowing are still immature; they are also very likely to gulp food when they are eager to get back to playing. Sometimes they are inclined to eat while they are running.
The first thing to avoid is power struggles. Instead, address only those issues that truly are important to you. When you offer choices you can set limits and still allow your child some independence. Try to make a game out of good behavior. The child may be more likely to do what you want if you make it fun. Parents should also try to plan ahead. If you know that certain things will set them off, remind them before hand what behavior is acceptable and what the consequences will be if they do not follow proper behavior. Always praise good behavior. Praise them whenever your child remembers to follow the rules.
Parents cannot avoid trouble all the time. Your child will test your limits. It is a way for your child to find out if they can really trust you. They need to find out if you will really do what you said you would do if they did not listen. When your child sees the natural consequences of their actions, they experience the direct results of their choices. When you use this method, do not rescue them and resist the urge to lecture. Your child will learn best if they learn by themselves and therefore cannot blame you for the consequences.
Even with these precautions a toddler may still get into trouble with choking. If your toddler is still coughing, breathing and crying, you should not interfere, however if they have been coughing forcibly for more than two to three minutes, then you need to call 911. If they become silent and are struggling for breath then it is time to start rescue efforts.
First of all, if someone else is with you have them call 911 for medical assistance. Call 911 as well if you are unfamiliar with the rescue procedures, you should have them on the line even if you are familiar with the procedure just in case something happens. If your child is awake then you need to kneel behind your child and wrap your arms around their waist. Make a fist with one hand and place the thumb side down in the center of the body, slightly above the navel and well below the rib cage. Grab your positioned fist with your other hand and press it into your child’s abdomen with a quick inward and upward thrust. Each of these thrust should be a separate and distinct movement. Repeat this up to five times or when the object is ejected and your child is breathing normally.