US police officer saves newborn baby from choking on medicine

A rookie police officer in the US said he was “freaking out” the whole time as the baby had turned purple and stopped breathing.

A rookie US police officer drew on quick-thinking and some home-grown experience to save a choking infant.

Police officer Cody Hubbard, 23, answered a call for a three-week-old boy who was choking on anti-gas drops.

“We were trying to give Grady his medicine … and he was taking them just fine,” Joe Chronister, the baby’s father, told Fox & Friends on Saturday. “Right towards the end, he started choking.”

Baby Grady started to “turn purple” and stopped breathing. Joe and his wife Katelin called 911.

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This footage was captured on the police officer’s body cam. Picture: Fox News

Mr Hubbard hurried to the scene, “freaking out” the whole time, he said. He arrived and quickly clapped Grady on the back to dislodge the drops. The rescue was caught on his body camera.

“It was life-changing,” Mr Hubbard said. As a father himself, Mr Hubbard had experienced the same problem with his daughter.

Thanks to his experience, he was able to keep calm and save Grady.

“Whenever I rolled up on this call, anytime I deal with something that involves a child, I think about how the parents would want me to treat the child as if it was mine,” the cop explained.

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The police officer later reunited with the family after the incident. Picture: Fox News

After the ordeal, Mr Hubbard went into his car and started crying because it “felt good” to see how well things turned out, according to FOX 16.

Mr Hubbard will receive a life-saving award later this month.

Baby Grady is otherwise doing fine, his parents said.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is reproduced here with permission