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[quote=Anonymous]I work at home.  I heard my 10 month old son coughing and crying.  I didn't go downstairs because I don't like the meddle, but then the nanny started yelling my name.

When I got downstairs, my son was crying and had just vomited a little saliva on the floor.

It seems like he still had some food in his mouth after lunch, and maybe gagged or choked on it while he was crawling around.  I know a lot of people cannot tell the difference and I'm not sure if my nanny can.  The "food" that came out was a little stringy bit of cantaloupe so I'm guessing it was more of a gag than a choke.

Anyway, she told me she stuck her finger in his mouth to try to induce him to vomit.  I have read over and over that this is NOT the right thing to do.

I said it was dangerous to do that because it might push the food further back, but she said she was more scraping the side of his mouth.

I feel bad because the whole situation must have been stressful, but if she is not responding appropriately I absolutely need to make sure she knows that.

Language is a bit of a barrier - she speaks Spanish.  So I guess my questions are:

1) Was her response appropriate?  Normally I'm not an over-corrector, but in this case, I absolutely want to correct her if need be.

2) Do you know of any resources  in Spanish that would be good for her to review?  She's infant CPR certified but maybe they don't explicitly say not to stick your finger in the baby's mouth?

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