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Yes, had the joy of having to do it on my son once on a Christmas Eve - successfully. That Xmas day spent in hospital really brought home the value of family.
Also was a first aider in U.K. for 12yrs. Saved my boy from choking a couple of years ago. This was a bizarre coincidence as I had read a news article a few days before about someone being saved by moving an object toward a lung. So my son somehow manages to inhale soil through a pipe from a toy and blocks his windpipe. I swing into action and try the stuff you get trained to do - couldn't hook anything out, back slaps and Heimlich weren't working and he was blue by this point. So I just went for broke and reached down into his throat and I must have broken up the clump of soil and he recovered. He was suitably upset and hasn't tried that again!
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