When your toddler stops breathing...

...while stuffing her face with cheese;
1) give her a few pats on the back.
2)If no response, turn her upside down, lay her tummy down on your thigh with her head pointing down and pat her back between the shoulder blades- HARD.
3)When she begins to cough or breathe, take your index finger and perform a "sweep" with your finger bent like a hook.
4)Remove object, if it didn't pop out before. Examine mouth for possible lingering obstruction or object that might obstruct airway again.
5)When the child begins to cough and then cry, give her a big hug and rub her back and reassure her.
6) Now YOU breathe. You may possibly need to change your pants if you wet yourself (or worse) from that freak-out moment.
7) immediately pick up the glob of sticky cheese (she was so hungry she was stuffing it in w/o chewing, so there were 5 small pieces globbed together), before the child tries to pick it up and eat it again.

*if you cannot remove obstruction, call 9-1-1.
**I highly recommend taking a child CPR class to learn this skill. In all seriousness, it saved Madelyn's life today! Regular pats weren't cutting it.

And that was our excitement for the day!