Sadie Robertson said her eight-month-old daughter, Kit, choked on a snack this week, briefly stopped breathing and was revived after Robertson started CPR in a life-threatening emergency she described in an Instagram post shared Saturday.
Robertson said the scene unfolded at home as Kit sat in her high chair eating while she finished dinner prep. Her mother pulled the baby from the chair and into Robertson’s arms just as Kit stopped breathing, then called 911 while Robertson began CPR. Kit coughed and started breathing again as paramedics arrived, and mother and daughter rode together in the back of the ambulance to the hospital.
Robertson, 28, wrote that she wanted to share the experience because awareness can save lives. She said she had been away from social media for a while while working on having a sound mind, and described the episode as both terrifying and a reminder that parents should know what to do in an emergency.
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The family stayed overnight for observation, and Robertson later said Kit was fully recovered, healthy and happy, adding that the baby had already won over the nurses. She also said her husband, Christian Huff, told her he saw a rainbow over the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Robertson and Huff married in 2019 and have three children: Kit, Honey, 4, and Haven, 2.
The tension in Robertson’s account is in the speed of it: a routine snack at home became a medical emergency within moments, and it was the family’s quick response that bridged the gap before paramedics arrived. By Saturday, Robertson said the danger had passed. Her close call is now a public warning and, in her words, a reason for other parents to learn the steps before they need them.
