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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Josie Adnitt & Ramazani Mwamba

A mum is warning other parents after her two-year-old son choked on a lollipop - as he was sat on her lap

A mum-of-two has warned others after her son choked on a lollipop as he was sat on her lap. Amy Mantle, 33, said that her two-year-old son Baker found himself struggling to breathe because of the sweet, despite her keeping her eyes on him the whole time.

Baker was with Amy during a hair appointment on April 28 and he was given the sweet while he waited for his mother to get her hair done. Amy became concerned when she saw that the sweet had come off the end of the lolly stick.

It was only when she saw that Baker couldn’t breathe that she realised what had happened and, when she couldn’t remove the sweet from her son’s throat, she began to panic. Luckily, her hairdresser, Gemma Fairhurst, came to the rescue by holding Baker upside down and repeatedly hitting his back to dislodge the lollipop.

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