PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia-area fast food restaurant manager saved a baby who stopped breathing in the drive-thru. It was a life-saving act that was all captured on video.
Natasha Long said she stopped by a Taco Bell after running a few errands. While she was in the drive-thru, she noticed her 11-week-old son, Myles, was struggling to breathe, according to WPVI in Philadelphia.
"I pulled him out and he turned completely blue and was lifeless, and at that point I just completely blacked out,” Long told the television station. “I didn't know what to do."
Fortunately, Taco Bell manager Becky Arbaugh did.
"I threw my headset. I ran outside,” Arbaugh said. “So I took the baby and I started to do chest compressions on the baby and then he finally started to breathe."
Myles was taken to the hospital, where doctors were looking into exactly what happened to him. As for the two women, the scare created a bond between them.
"We couldn't be more grateful to Becky,” Long told WPVI. “She saved my son's life."
"I just thought myself as a mom with another mom that needed help," Arbaugh added.
According to WPVI, Arbaugh had similar instances with her own daughter. That helped her stay calm. It helped her keep Long calm, too.
"There was no thought in my mind that the baby wasn't going to breathe again," she said.