Can you imagine going to check on your baby and finding that they weren’t breathing? Would you know what to do or would you just panic?

It’s pretty much the very worst scenario imaginable for any parent and I’m not sure I wouldn’t just crumble. I was in enough of a state when Bee dropped a dish on her foot, resulting in what turned out to be a tiny cut, convinced as I rushed her to A&E that she would have bled to death before I could get her there.

Thankfully when Natasha Jones checked on her 11 week old daughter Ava-Mai and found her not breathing she managed to keep her alive until the ambulance arrived, an agonising 36 minutes later. Natasha admits that this was pure luck; she had no real idea of the correct procedure, a fact that prompted her to set up baby resuscitation classes for other parents. 600 successful trainees later and Natasha is still going strong.

“I’ve had two mums that have used it on their children and saved their lives as a result,” says Natasha. “It makes me feel really fantastic. I set out to do this so that other people don’t go through what we went through and so other families don’t suffer.” View Post

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On Sunday I was lucky enough to be invited to the Tesco Mum of the Year awards at the Savoy in London. I’ve written already about one of the winners, Anna Kennedy, and it was fantastic to get to meet all of the winners in person and hear their inspiring stories. They really are an amazing bunch of women.

I had a fantastic day, and it didn’t hurt that there was the chance to eat a yummy dinner and do a spot of celeb spotting too. The ceremony was also being filmed – watch the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards on Channel 5, Sunday 10 March 2013, at 12noon and see if you can spot me in the audience. I’ll be the one near the back tweeting pictures of my food. If you can’t watch it then, fear not, it will be available via Demand 5 for a whole year. View Post

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This week Tesco have been announcing the winners of the Tesco Mum of the Year awards.

Anna Kennedy, like many mums, hasn’t had things easy. When her two sons, Patrick, now 23, and Angelo, 19, where first diagnosed with autism, Anna was told that they were the only children in the area with the condition. Can you imagine how isolating that must have felt? At a time when more than anything you need the support of other local parents in the same situation, you discover that there are none. View Post

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