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05th Mar 2015

Bad-ass women we admire: The auntie who saved her newborn nephew’s life

Let's hear it for the girls.

Katie Mythen-Lynch

In honour of International Women’s Day on March 8th, this week we’re celebrating women who rose to a unique challenge.

Pamela Rauseo was stuck in traffic on a busy US highway when her five-month-old nephew Sebastian de la Cruz, sitting in his seat in the back of her SUV, stopped breathing.

Desperate, the schoolteacher swept him into her arms and raced into the road to find someone who could help him as he turned blue. With time running out, she remembered how to give the kiss of life – something she had learned years earlier in CPR training when her own son stopped breathing.

Her efforts kept little Sebastian alive until help arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnz4HmI-xYA