St John Ambulance: Baby First Aid
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St John Ambulance: Baby First Aid

In this course, you will learn about simple, lifesaving skills. This will help prepare and reassure parents for their first year of infancy and beyond. You will learn about different conditions and techniques; how to put an infant in the recovery position and giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Expert Academy
Updated Nov 30, 2018

Course Description

Why is baby first aid important? Many parents are worried about different conditions that could affect their baby. If you're a parent, grandparent, a carer or if you work with babies, learning baby first aid will give you confidence to save a life when it really counts.

Our baby first aid course teaches simple, lifesaving skills. First aid topics are taught in line with babies’ developmental stages, helping to reassure parents and prepare them for the first year and beyond. We cover a whole range of different conditions and techniques; from knowing how to put an infant in the recovery position if they are unresponsive but breathing, to giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if they’re not.

What will you learn?

  • Primary survey
  • What to do if your baby is choking
  • What to do if your baby is unresponsive
  • What to do if your baby has a seizure
  • What to do if your baby isn’t breathing

What are the requirements?

This course is suitable for parents, grandparents and anyone who spends time looking after babies.

Who are St John Ambulance?

St John Ambulance is the UK’s leading first aid charity. Our volunteers provide first aid in their communities, keeping people safe at events, and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls. We’re also always campaigning to raise awareness of first aid and directly educate the public.

St John Ambulance training

Every year, more than 400,000 people learn how to save a life through our training programmes, including hundreds of thousands of young people. We’re the leading provider of workplace training, reaching over 250,000 people a year and we also teach in the community, giving people access to important skills they wouldn’t otherwise get the chance to learn.

Who is this course for?

This is for anyone who spends time with babies or children under the age of one and wishes to have a knowledge of first aid.

Learning Objectives

This course teaches you invaluable baby first aid skills; so you know what to do in an emergency situation

Course Duration

0.5 hours