Upland officer provides lifesaving CPR to baby girl – NBC Los Angeles

A baby girl is alive and recovering Thursday thanks to the heroic, quick-thinking response from a grandfather and Upland police officers.

“Is the baby breathing? Please, I’ve never dealt with this. Please save my baby!” the worried mother is heard in a video released by Upland PD.

The body cam footage shows officers on Monday, around 2 p.m., responding to a call of a baby not breathing near 13th Street and Campus Avenue.

“I noticed she wasn’t moving. I turned her around and grabbed her and mouth was purple and she wasn’t breathing. Her whole body was limp,” said Desiree Martinez, the mother of baby Beya. “It’s the scariest thing any parent can go through.”

Martinez says she’s thankful her family was home and jumped in to help before first responders got to the residence.

“I had a good support system around me. My sister called 911 and my mom called my dad because he knew CPR,” said Martinez.

When officers arrived, they immediately sprang into action and began working to clear the infant’s airway followed by CPR, according to Upland police.

The baby was breathing again by the time paramedics arrived to transport the infant to a hospital.

Officer Trayvon Davis, who provided CPR to the baby girl, says the response was all instinct.

“When a call like this comes, you are nervous and your heart pumps but it was second nature,” said Davis. “This is the reason we do the job to help people and save people.”

Doctors believe the baby girl went into cardiac arrest after choking and the efforts before paramedics arrived may have made the difference in life or death.

“Seconds count and the grandfather doing CPR before the paramedics came was probably one of the most important things,’ said Dr. Merrick Lopez at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital.

Baby Beya remains in the hospital but is expected to fully recover, according to authorities. Martinez hopes parents can take away from the frightening incident how important it is to learn CPR.