
Explore prevention and practical first aid for babies, covering CPR, foreign bodies, fever, haemorrhaging, and head injuries, with emphasis on preparation and timely action before professionals arrive.
Children's curiosity drives accidents as they explore and mouth objects, especially between ages 1 and 2; parents secure environments to prevent harm while supporting development.
Learn to anticipate infant mobility from birth to one year old, prepare for common accidents, and take responsibility for safe care during the infant stage.
Keep the crib safe with slat gaps under six centimetres (2.4 inches) and lower base as child grows; avoid pillows and use a blanket with a cloth under the head.
Learn to keep the changing table safe by ensuring three sides are high, stock it with essentials for changing and bathing, and never leave your baby unattended on the table.
Discover safe newborn bathing practices, including wiping vs bathing, amniotic-fluid skin protection, keeping the umbilical cord stump dry, water at 35–37°C, three-finger depth, and a secure hold for comfort.
Choose a stable stroller with large wheels and a secure harness. Add reflectors for visibility, and avoid covering it; use a sun canopy and portable fan to prevent overheating.
Learn to recognize hair tourniquets in babies, where a strand can wrap a toe or finger, causing swelling and reduced blood flow; remove the strand safely or seek care.
Recognize shaken baby syndrome as a dangerous injury from shaking an exhausted parent's baby, with signs like irritability, inconsolable crying, poor feeding, and possible unconsciousness requiring immediate hospital care.
Understand cot death, or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), its unknown cause, sleep-related risk factors, and that monitoring with a baby breathing monitor is presented as the key preventive method.
Learn how breathing monitors track a baby's breathing to ease parental worry, emphasize safe sleep, and guide alarm responses with CPR if needed.
Learn how to recognize choking hazards in infants and perform step-by-step foreign body removal, including back blows, chest compressions, and rescue breaths, plus when to call emergency help.
Learn infant CPR essentials: assess safety, check if unresponsive, call for help, give five rescue breaths, then perform 30 chest compressions with two breaths at 100–120/min until help arrives.
Explore the 1–3 year age group, where rapid exploration increases accident risk and hazards. Learn to anticipate and prevent common dangers as toddlers touch, hold, shake, and explore objects.
Identify why babies are head heavy, how head bumps range from minor to concussion, and when to seek hospital care after a head injury.
Learn essential home safety steps to prevent electric shock—hide cords, use plug protectors, install a residual current device (rcd), and switch off the source or call an ambulance if needed.
Learn to prevent and treat scalds and burns in infants and toddlers, covering flame, contact, electrical, chemical, and sunburn injuries with cooling, dressing, and emergency care guidelines.
Secure all adult medications and store them out of children’s reach in locked storage to prevent drug overdose. Keep an up-to-date inventory and call an ambulance immediately if ingestion occurs.
Learn to use the recovery position to keep an unconscious child's airway open. Never leave unattended; avoid it in spinal injuries, turn to the other side after 30 minutes.
Learn about carbon monoxide poisoning, the silent killer, its symptoms, and how sensors, maintenance, and alarms protect homes and garages; replace sensors every five years.
Store chemicals in original packaging, out of reach, with caps locked, and ventilate rooms; recognize symptoms such as nausea or breathing trouble, then call emergency services and remove contaminated clothing.
Seek immediate medical care if a child swallows or inserts objects, avoid inducing vomiting, and supervise age-appropriate toys to reduce nose or ear insertions and potential respiratory or GI risks.
Prevent choking and suffocation by supervising meals in safe environments, avoiding distractions, and serving safe foods. Avoid seeds, popcorn, and gum until age five, especially in cars or while active.
Identify choking in children and remove a foreign body with back blows and abdominal thrusts, call for help, and perform resuscitation with rescue breaths and chest compressions.
Learn to assess an unconscious child, secure the environment, call for help, and perform CPR with rescue breaths and chest compressions, including airway management and proper positioning.
Explore how 3-6-year-olds grow more active and curious, and identify common accident hazards for home safety.
Children's fractures, dislocations, and sprains can follow falls or collisions. Seek hospital evaluation for open or closed fractures, avoid repositioning, and call an ambulance when necessary.
Assess external hemorrhaging and manage wounds with cleaning, disinfection, and dressings, applying compression and raising the bleeding part to control bleeding, while watching for shock and infection signs.
Understand croup, also known as false croup or acute laryngotracheitis, a viral laryngitis common in children, causing a dry barking cough and stridor, and learn when to manage at home.
Learn that fever is a natural protective immune response regulated by the hypothalamus, not a disease, and compare safe temperature methods and when to use fever relief.
Learn about febrile seizures in children, including simple and complex types, typical brief duration, and key first aid steps like side-lying and not putting objects in the mouth.
Assemble a home pharmacy kit with medications, dressings, gauze, disinfectants, Band-Aids, scissors, and a thermometer in a locked cabinet for quick, safe access; include antipyretics and an EpiPen if allergies.
Learn to call an ambulance in an emergency, provide precise location with What three Words app when available, share access details, describe the situation briefly, and don't hang up.
Parents must reduce hazards and guide a child’s safe movement, balancing protection and independence to support healthy development and avoid dangerous situations.
Our baby first aid course is designed to transform you from a worried and uncertain caregiver to a confident and capable hero. With expert instructors and a comprehensive curriculum, you'll learn everything you need to know to keep your baby safe in any emergency situation. Don't wait until it's too late—enroll in our course today and become the hero your baby deserves!
There's nothing more terrifying than seeing your baby in distress and feeling helpless to help!
Do you want to be prepared when a new family member arrives home?
Do you want to know how to prevent problems?
Do you want to know what to do if trouble happens?
How to perform resuscitation; how to remove a swallowed foreign body?
How to call for help?
What should we do in case of a burn, fever, or febrile seizures?
STOP BEING HELPLESS!
Life-Saving Techniques For Your Little One:
What You’ll Learn in Our 3 hours long Baby First Aid Course
Where can accidents happen to my child?
What type of accidents may and where can they happen to my child? - we review these based on age groups from 0 to 6 years of age. How can we be prepared to prevent trouble?
Bleeding and its treatment
What types of bleeding are there? How do we treat the various types? Which is the most dangerous type and why? Don’t get frightened; learn what to do and react immediately in case of an accident!
Head injuries, fractures, and bruises
How do we deal with each of these? How do we prevent such injuries? Who can we turn to for help? When should we see a doctor? What age groups are these accidents most common for?
Ingestion of a foreign body, chemicals, poisoning
How can we prevent mishaps like choking, eating while running around, or picking a harmful toy? What should we do if the child gains access to chemicals? How should we store them?
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
What causes it? What are the contributing factors? What can the parent do? This will also be covered in the course!
Artificial respiration, resuscitation (CPR)
Resuscitation in infant and toddler age. What are the dos and don’ts? How do we remove a foreign body?
Hair strangulation
Haven’t heard of it yet? It’s not your fault! It’s not much spoken of since it’s not the most common accident. But unfortunately, it’s more dangerous than you would’ve thought! Find out what it is and how to prevent it!
Fever and Febrile Seizures
How can we measure a baby’s fever? What should we look out for to get an accurate result? How can we reduce fever and what should we use? What is a febrile seizure and how can we deal with it?
Scalding, Burn injury and Electric shock
When should we go to the hospital with this injury? When is a burn considered a severe injury? How do we prevent it? What do we do when it happens?
How can we call for help?
Who should we call when there is trouble? What should we say and what should we do in order to best inform the professionals? What is the best order of action?
What should we look out for when selecting furniture?
What furniture should we buy for the baby? What should we look out for in each case? A poorly selected crib can cause the baby’s constant crying and discomfort. We will review all of this in the course.
Medicines, Medicine cabinet
What should be in your medicine cabinet? What should always be at hand? What should be used and when?
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS)
What exactly does this mean? Why does it happen? What are the contributing factors? And why is it so dangerous? You have already taken the first step in preventing trouble by becoming aware of it!
Croup and what to do about it
What is Croup? What causes it? What should we do during a croup attack? How can you avoid it? We received requests to include it in the training, and so we did!
Who Would Benefit From Taking Our Baby First Aid Course?
We believe that everyone who cares for a baby should have the skills and knowledge to respond confidently in an emergency situation. The online baby first aid course is for mothers, fathers, and grandparents who want to prepare for accidents involving infants and kids, who feel prevention is important, and who want to know how to react in the event of an accident.
This online course covers the types of accidents typical of various age groups – for instance, an infant faces a different set of threats than a 3-year-old does. We pay special attention to the prevention of accidents, but we demonstrate what to do in a separate video content, for example, in the case of choking. We also cover what to keep in your medicine cabinet, and how to prepare your home, flat, or even your garden to keep your child safe.
TAKE THIS COURSE!
As parents, it’s difficult to fathom the brilliant imagination children have, which coincidentally may put them in harm’s way. In the span of this course, we examine the potential sources of danger unique to the various age groups. We are likely to panic when our children have an accident; therefore, it is advantageous to be prepared for situations children may find themselves in when they suffer an accident. We review what to do in these situations as grownups.
Who Are We?
The international experts of Enappy prepared this course to provide you with the most comprehensive and accurate source of information on child first aid an related subjects.
Debbie Hemmingway: Private & Independent Midwife with over 12 years of midwifery experience, Providing holistic antenatal, birth & postnatal care, Aromatherapy in childbirth and pregnancy massage practitioner.
Judit Zombori: College Adjunct Professor, former Midwife, Psychologist, Consultant, and Trainer with 38 years of experience.
Cintia Harmath: Adult, child, and baby First Aid Instructor, Doula, Early Years Educator and Childcare Worker, Baby and Prenatal Yoga Instructor, Baby Massage Instructor.
80% of all injuries and accidents can be prevented with sufficient care and preparation.
We all know that prevention is the most important factor, yet it’s impossible to foresee all possibilities, so this course places a great deal of emphasis on practice besides gaining the required theoretical knowledge.
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