Cradle and Kin

Not my child, not my business…🤷‍♀️😴

🚨 FREE Choking Safety Guide🚨

Ready to take the stress out of family meal times? We are excited to offer you our Choking Safety Guide for FREE!

This handy little guide can provide you with the skills needed to save a little life. Print it out and pop it on the fridge, perfect to refer to in a choking emergency.

Our Choking Safety Guide will teach you:

🔹 How-to recognise the signs of choking
🔹 Step-by-step instructions on administering choking first aid
🔹 A list of the top 10 high risk choking foods for children under 5
🔹 Tips to prevent your child from choking

Remember, every second counts during a choking emergency.

Equip yourself AND your support network with the knowledge and skills needed to act swiftly and effectively.

Comment ‘choking safety’ below and grab your free Choking Safety Guide today!

🩸 NOSE BLEED FIRST AID

Fact or fiction, you should tilt your head backwards when you have a nosebleed?

The answer is fiction!

It’s actually best to avoid tilting the head backwards as it can cause a child to swallow blood, upsetting the stomach potentially causing vomiting (which may worsen a nose bleed).

Instead try this👇

1️⃣ Sit your child upright and have them lean slightly forward.
2️⃣ Pinch the lower part of their nose for 10 minutes. Remember, no peeking! Try not to remove pressure during this time.
3️⃣ Distract with a book or game to pass the time.
4️⃣ Still bleeding after 10 minutes? Pinch for another 10 minutes.

If the bleeding continues after 20 minutes it’s time to get your child to a doctor.

Want some extra tips? Try these!

💧 Cool towel or ice pack on the neck for comfort.
🍦 Offer a cold treat to help with the taste of blood.
🚫 Encourage them to spit out any blood, not swallow.

Good luck mama, got this! 💪❤️

Anyone else’s child require multiple approaches, heavy negotiation, interpretive dance and a written request to follow an instruction? 🫠

You can never be too careful…

So you think your child has CROUP… now what?

We’ve got you covered with this post AND our recent blog all about croup! (Link in the bio)

My toddler’s favourite toy today, no questions asked 😅🙃

Send this to another parent who needs the solidarity 👊

To every type of mum, we see you and think you’re pretty bloody amazing.

Happy Mother’s Day!

I got asked this question the other day by a mother looking to book in for a course and it got me thinking 🤔

We are so fortunate to live in a time where first aid training is easily accessible to families and their support networks, so what sets Cradle & Kin apart?

Well...

❤️We are both currently practicing, experienced paramedics.

- That means you benefit from up-to-date, current knowledge and real life examples.

❤️We teach you what you NEED to know, and cut away the fluff.

- Our course content is all evidence based using content endorsed by The Australian Resuscitation Council and leading Australian children’s hospital’s guidelines.

❤️We focus on teaching you, not selling you products.

- We show you how to save lives and apply treatment without using unproven gadgets.

❤️We both love a laugh (and are hilariously funny*).

- First aid is serious, but learning it doesn’t have to be boring.

So, if you’re keen to learn first aid make sure you book in for a course with us today using the link our bio!

*opinion not fact…

Whether it’s a minor kitchen mishap or a more serious incident, being able to identify the severity of your child’s burn can be very helpful.

This is because burn severity plays a large role in determining what level of help they require.

Did you know this about burns? Tag another mumma who would benefit from the knowledge!

Burns First Aid 🔥 ⛑️

Burns are a common injury among children, often occurring during everyday situations such as cooking, bathing and even playing outdoors.

As parents we know accidents can happen in split second- which is why it is so important to know the correct first aid.

Regardless of their severity, burns first aid treatment remains the same…

Remove.
Cool.
Cover.
Get Help.

If you’d like to know more about burns first aid treatment head over to our recent blog post- the link is in our bio!

Nah, for real… you’d hate it 😉

Ever heard of a hair tourniquet? No? Let us enlighten you!

A hair tourniquet is a rare condition in which a hair becomes wrapped around a child’s finger, toe, limb or genitalia reducing or completely stopping the circulation of blood.

Because hair is so strong and can stretch significantly when wet, it can accidentally become wrapped around an area of the body, contracting and becoming tighter as it dries leading to a hair tourniquet.

It is thought that hair tourniquets most commonly happen due to repetitive movement. Imagine a hair is trapped inside the socks or mittens of a child who is constantly moving their hands or feet around. You can see how it could become tangled up around an area of the body.

Hair tourniquets are most common in babies under 6 months of age (due to all of that post-partum hair loss, wild right) however they can also happen to older babies and children and have even been reported in adults.

Want to learn more? Check out our blog (link in bio) and stay tuned for more info on hair tourniquets this week.

       

Like free things?

Well you’ll love this! You can download our free printable First Aid Flow Chart and Medication Tracker for FREE right now! (How good?!)

Both are incredibly handy, just print them out and slap them on the fridge (or somewhere central) and you’re good to go!

Simply jump on our website and follow the pop-up prompts, or click the link in our bio!

Simple! 🙌

So your child has confirmed RSV…

OR maybe they just have cold-like symptoms and you haven’t been given a specific diagnosis…

What should you do now? Swipe through to find out!

And if you’d like more information about RSV and other illnesses, be sure to check out our blog or book in for a course with us today! (Use the link in our bio)

Do you want to feel prepared, empowered and confident to manage childhood illness, injury and emergencies with ease? 

Sick of doubting yourself and feeling anxious or worried every time your little one is unwell? Guys, we’ve got you!

Our baby and child online course First Aid For The First Years is the most comprehensive course we have ever created and it’s jam-packed full of all the good stuff you need to keep kids safe.

As working Paramedics and busy mums ourselves, we know that finding time to do a first aid course can be tough, so thats why we created our online course, just for you.

Purchase the course today and work through bite size modules, at your own pace, all from the comfort of your own home. You can even do it while nap- trapped. 

Once it’s completed, not only will you feel on top of the world, you will be equipped with the skills needed to save a little life and manage illness and injury without a worry in sight.

Hi, we’re Zoe & Maggie.

Mums, Registered Paramedics and co-owners of Cradle & Kin Family First Aid.

We started our small business with a mission to share our front line emergency knowledge with new parents and their support networks. Our goal is to help our community keep precious little ones safe!

If you want to feel more confident in handling illness, injury and emergency, then we would love to teach you!

You can book in for one of our in-person courses, or sign up to our online course on our website (link in bio).

Do you want to feel prepared, empowered and confident to manage childhood illness, injury and emergencies like a pro? Then join us for our in person course First Aid For The First Years!

As Registered Paramedics with a combined 20 years of front line experience, we have seen countless little lives saved by caregivers who knew when to act and what to do while waiting for help to arrive.

We can teach you these skills too!

Choose from a private in-home course, surrounded by friends and family or attend one of our regular public courses.

In just 3.5 hours you will learn the following skills and more:

The Primary Survey
Advocating for your child
Allergies & Anaphylaxis
Burns
Choking
Croup 
CPR (infants, children and adults)
Dehydration
Drowning
Fevers & febrile convulsions 
Head injuries
Recognising a critically unwell child
Meningococcal disease
Rashes
Respiratory distress
Whooping cough 

To keep your skills fresh and up to date we also give you 12 months access to our online course which covers everything you learnt in person plus bonus modules on bites & stings, bleeding, musculoskeletal injuries and poisoning. 

What are you waiting for? Head to our course page to find the course for you today, link in bio. 

Is it just us or does it feel like every man and his toddler has RSV right now?

So, what is it?

And more importantly, how to I stop me and my toddler from getting it?!

Don’t stress, we’ve got you!

We’ve written a blog alllll about RSV, so make sure you click the link in our bio and check it out today!

PUBLIC COURSE INFO

We have locked in our next public course date as 01/06/24.

It will be held once again at the lovely  venue in Subiaco.

Come along and learn life saving skills and information from registered paramedics (and mother’s who totally get what you’re going through).

Spaces are limited, so make sure you get onto our website and secure your spot!

We can’t wait to see you there :)

Be very, very gentle… you don’t want to startle them 😂

Want to learn first aid?

That’s great, because we want to teach you!

As Registered Paramedics with 20 years combined experience, we have seen first hand the positive benefits of first aid treatment.

Knowing when to call an ambulance and what to do until they arrive can make ALL the difference!

We created Cradle and Kin so that we could share our emergency knowledge with young families and their support network, all with the goal of keeping little ones safe!

So, if you and your family are ready to learn life saving skills, jump on to our website and book yourselves in for a course today!

Nappy Rash PART 3

Welcome to part 3 of our series of nappy rash and to save you an appointment with Dr Google, we have compiled our best tips to get rid of nappy rash quickly!

The goal when treating nappy rash is to heal damaged skin by keeping it clean, as dry as possible and free of friction.

Here are some things you can do to help…

Eye bags so big they’re considered checked luggage 😂

What even is sleep?

Nappy Rash PART 2

Howdy folks, today kicks off part two of our series on nappy rash. Today we cover how to identify nappy rash in little ones.

Let’s go!

Pssst- Don’t forget if you want to know more about nappy rash be sure to check out our recent blog post, link in bio.

Nappy Rash PART 1 🍼🧷

Nappy rash is a common rash that affects babies and children of nappy wearing age. In fact it is so common that over 50% of babies will experience it by the time they turn one, yikes!

Today we are kicking off our 4 part series about all things nappy rash starting off with the most common causes.

If you want to learn more about managing nappy rash be sure to check out our recent blog post, link in bio.

Some very kind words from one of our recent families 💕

We feel so fortunate to be able to work with such wonderful people AND help to keep little ones safe!

If you and your support network are ready to learn infant and child first aid, make sure you head to our website and book in for a course today!

Easter safety tips coming in hot (cross buns) 🐣

Wow, somebody stop us!

To help make the long weekend a breeze (and free of a visit to ED) we have prepared our top tips to keep your little bunnies safe this Easter. 🐰

Anyone else having to constantly restock because someone* keeps eating all the eggs they buy? 🐣

*Me. It’s me, I’m eating the eggs.