{"id":14490,"date":"2016-10-11T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2016-10-11T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:07:42","slug":"greenville-ga-officer-saves-choking-baby-this-will-change-me-for-the-rest-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=14490","title":{"rendered":"Greenville, Ga. Officer saves choking baby ‘This will change me for the rest of my life’"},"content":{"rendered":"

(11 Alive<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0It isn\u2019t hard to see the bond between a Greenville, Ga. police officer and the 2-month-old baby girl he saved.<\/p>\n

For officer Kenneth Knox, the connection with little Ma\u2019Yavie was almost instant. \u201cShe\u2019s not wiggling, she\u2019s not fussing,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s just nothing like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the coos and sweet smile from Ma\u2019Yavie are a far cry from the state Knox found the baby earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Knox was responding to the baby\u2019s home<\/a> after her parents made a frantic 911 call to police, telling the dispatcher their daughter couldn\u2019t breathe. By the time Knox responded, the circumstances looked\u00a0grim.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had turned a blueish-purple and her eyes had glazed over. She was not breathing,\u201d he recounted to 11Alive\u2019s Kaitlyn Ross. \u201cThey were screaming, \u2018Please save my baby!\u2019 and the baby was limp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ma\u2019Yavie was choking on the cereal her parents fed her an hour before. The Greenville officer laid the 2-month-old on the floor, but couldn\u2019t find a pulse. Desperate, he sucked the cereal out of her throat, and she started breathing again immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cI swear to God, that just for a second, she looked up at me and smiled,\u201d Knox said. Still shaken from the experience, he wrote about the incident on his Facebook page<\/a>, saying when Ma\u2019Yavie started crying, it was music to his ears. The post has since garnered tens-of-thousands of shares.<\/p>\n

Knox said he\u2019s been an officer for 25 years, but nothing has ever come close to this experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing\u2019s ever touched me or changed me like this,\u201d he told 11Alive. \u201cThis will change me for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

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