Went on a pediatric first aid course at work. This was the first of two hour-long sessions. Today’s session was about resuscitation and next week’s will be about choking.

While I sort of knew what one is supposed to do when a child isn’t breathing, I’d never had an opportunity to practice it, so this felt useful. It was good to get some kind of a feel for how hard you need to press/push for heart massage, for example. (The answer is: really hard!) It’s not the kind of thing you want to be experimenting with in an emergency.