A couple left desperately searching YouTube for help while trying to resuscitate their baby are campaigning get infant CPR training given to all new parents.<br /><br />Rachel and Christian Pepper realised too late that they had little idea what to do when tiny Rowan stopped breathing during a feed.<br /><br />The one-week-old was rushed to hospital but, although doctors managed to stabilise him, he had suffered fatal brain damage and died a week later.<br /><br />Rachel, 35, and Christian, 38, now want to use their son's death to help educate other parents.<br /><br />The mum, from Derby, said: "When Rowan stopped breathing, it was a worst nightmare scenario.<br /><br />"I was hysterical - it was like something you watch on TV but you never think it will happen to you.<br /><br />"We had a couple of miscarriages before Rowan came along and we thought that was our bad luck over, then this happens.<br /><br />"We can't bring him back but we can't sit back and let our boy's death be in vain.<br /><br />"Showing new parents a short video about how to perform CPR on a young child could save lives.<br /><br />"If Rowan's death can save even one other child's life in the next 25 years, that would be my work done."<br /><br />Rachel, a site coordinator, and Christian, a warehouse operative, found out they were pregnant with their first child on February 28, 2022.<br /><br />After two previous miscarriages, their miracle baby Rowan was born on October 11 via caesarean at Royal Derby Hospital.<br /><br />After a couple of days in hospital he came home and "slotted perfectly into family life" straight away.<br /><br />But on October 18, days-old Rowan stopped breathing during a feed.<br /><br />The parents scrambled to call an ambulance and then attempted CPR on their tiny son.<br /><br />But they had no idea how to perform it on a baby, and had to follow a YouTube video.<br /><br />By the time they got to hospital, tiny Rowan hadn't been breathing for 47 minutes and had no pulse.<br /><br />Doctors managed to get his heart beating again using adrenaline and chest compressions - but his brain had been starved of oxygen too long.<br /><br />He was transferred to paediatric intensive care the following day and and put on a ventilator for several days.<br /><br />But doctors warned the brain damage was too severe.<br /><br />Rachel said: "The fact of the matter is he was only being kept alive by the ventilator.<br /><br />"The heartbreaking time came to see if he could survive without it."<br /><br />Rowan was taken off his ventilator on October 25 and the tot sadly passed away later that day with his loving parents by his side.<br /><br />Rowan's death was attributed to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), previously known as cot death - where a healthy baby has a sudden and unexplained death.<br /><br />Now the heartbroken parents are campaigning for new parents to be shown a CPR training video before leaving hospital with their newborns.<br /><br />They said after Rowan's birth they were shown a video telling parents not to shake their baby - but nothing about what to do if they choke or stop breathing.<br /><br />Resources on how to do infant CPR can be found here: https://www.sja.org.uk/get-advice/first-aid-advice/paediatric-first-aid/how-to-do-cpr-on-a-baby
