Taco Bell Manager Saves 11-Week-Old Baby’s Life After He Stopped Breathing and Turned Blue in Parking Lot

Surveillance footage of the parking lot shows the intense scene of mother, Natasha Long, realizing her baby isn’t breathing, and Taco Bell Manager, Becky Arbaugh, racing to the scene. The clip and the story itself, is incredibly inspiring, as well as important. 

Natasha told the press later, “He turned completely blue and was lifeless.” She continued, “At that point, I just completely blacked out. I didn’t know what to do.”

And in the middle of her shift, one employee flung off her headset and rushed outside to find out what kind of crisis was eliciting such a horrific sound of fear. 

Arbaugh began performing chest compressions on the newly-born infant while Natasha stood beside her trembling and terrified. 

Arbaugh’s actions were nothing short of heroic. She explained to the press how she managed to stay so calm in the horrific situation: “When my kids were little, my daughter had a similar incident, so I knew what she was feeling. I knew if I kept her calm and I stayed calm, there was no thought in my mind that the baby wasn’t going to breathe again.”

The hospital has been conducting the necessary tests in an attempt to find out why the newborn stopped breathing, though they don’t have the answer for Natasha just yet. 

Which is that new mothers and fathers should absolutely be trained in infant-CPR in case something similar occurs to their infants. 

Then, cover their nose and mouth with your mouth and breathe into their body five times. Next, give 30 chest compressions by firmly pushing two fingers into the middle of their chest. After 30 compressions, administer two rescue breaths, then another 30 compressions, and continue this procedure until they are breathing on their own. 

Although you may be able to get the baby breathing again, they will still need medical attention immediately to keep them alive. 

But the boy’s mother, Natasha, isn’t taking her actions lightly. She said, “We couldn’t be more grateful to Becky. She saved my son’s life.”

It seems that the bond between these two mothers is now unbreakable; they shared a trauma that will result in a life-long friendship. 

That day in the Taco Bell parking lot, one woman was able to save a life and change a mother’s life forever. And maybe, now that the correct response to this kind of situation is being shared all over the world, many more infant lives will be saved.