A brave British four-year-old is being hailed as a hero after she called police and performed CPR on her unconscious mother — saving her life.
In newly-released audio from the 999 call — the UK’s version of 911 — Daisy Hamer could be heard telling an operator “Mummy’s not breathing” when Aimee Hamer collapsed last year and using the phonetic alphabet to direct emergency services to her home.
Aimee had started to feel unwell around 2 p.m. on May 23, 2022, and decided to get into bed with her young daughter, SWNS reports.
The mother gave her daughter her cellphone so she could watch YouTube videos, but Daisy wound up using the phone to call cops.
“My mummy has fainted. She’s not talking to me,” Daisy told the authorities in the 999 call.
“My mummy’s not breathing.”
As an operator on the other end started to ask her questions about her mother’s condition, Daisy was able to answer all of the questions and followed the instructions given to her.
She even performed CPR when her mother became unresponsive and stopped breathing — with the help of her 2-year-old sister, Molly.
When she was asked to tilt her mom’s head back to clear the airway, Daisy could be heard saying, “Molly is doing it, my little sister. She’s only 2.”
Together, they were able to get their mother — who has a chronic heart condition, vitamin deficiency and iron deficiency anemia — breathing again.
“Mummy has woken up,” Daisy told the operator in the 999 call.
The young girl now says she wants to become either a paramedic or a surgeon when she gets older, her mother said.
Aimee explained that because of her health problems, she was keen to teach her four children how to call the local authorities in case of an emergency.
“I taught Daisy and my other children the phonetic alphabet by making a rhyme out of our postcode to make it fun and memorable,” she said.
She went on to say: “While I’ve had other funny turns previously, the kids were never on their own with me, as my husband was there to call 999, but Daisy would always get involved by fetching me a cushion and blanket.
“I always knew there may be the possibility that one day I would faint or become unconscious in front of the kids while my husband was there, which is why I taught them how to call 999 and not be afraid to do so in an emergency.”
Aimee also said the only thing she remembers from the incident is “going to bed feeling unwell, and the next minute coming around to an ambulance crew, police and one our neighbors in my bedroom.
“Daisy is amazing, and so grown up for her age,” she added.
On Tuesday, the young girl, now age 5, received an award for her bravery from East Midlands Ambulance Service.
“To have a child caller that young and that confident is quite rare, especially when it comes to being able to provide the postcode of their address phonetically,” paramedic Phillip Rowe said at the ceremony at her school.
“Daisy did amazing in being able to help us locate the property, and then being able to tell us when we arrived about the medical conditions [her mother] lives with.
“We administered oxygen to Aimee when we arrived on scene, which managed to get her rousable, and then we provided further treatment on the way to hospital.”
Meanwhile, in the US, a 14-year-old boy desperately tried to perform CPR on his mother after she was shot outside her Chicago home last week.
Unfortunately, the teenager was unsuccessful and Maria Roque, 34, was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Police said that just before 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 13, Roque was shot multiple times in front of her home — in view of her children, ages 8 and 14, who watched as their mother took her last breath, CBS News reports.
The gunman allegedly approached Roque as she was putting her 8-year-old daughter in the car.
Roque’s twin brother, Andres, also said that one of the children was in the car and the other “he heard the shot, and sees his own mom on the stairs, trying to breathe and she put on CPR.
“That’s the most horrible,” he said.
When Andres arrived at the hospital later he recounted hearing his nephew “cry and say, ‘I tried to save her.’”
His cousin, Maritza Galves-Hernandez also claimed Roque’s daughter is “very numb” and “terrified now, looking for mom [asking], ‘Where’s mom?’” she told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The family claims Roque was shot by an abusive ex-boyfriend, whom she received multiple orders of protection from.
The unidentified ex reportedly broke that order of protection just one day before the murder, and another one was granted just hours before Roque was shot and killed, CBS News reports.
Her family and friends say they are now losing faith in the justice system that was meant to protect her.
“A piece of paper is not going to save a life,” Roque’s best friend, Mari Duran said. “As you can see, Maria is not here and the paper didn’t save her.”
They remembered the mother-of-two at a vigil over the weekend as a caring matriarch, who tried not to let her ex get to her.
“She was one to kind of wipe it off like, ‘It’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK,’” Duran said.
She went on to describe her friend as a “giver” who “wore her heart on her sleeves.”
“You would’ve bever known she was going through the stuff that she was going through, the nightmare that she was living.”
An online fundraiser for the family also said Roque was a hardworking mother who was “dedicated to her health, fitness and career.”
“Maria had very recently taken brave steps towards escaping a dangerous situation, hoping to bring herself and her children to more safety and peace,” it says.
“Her love as [a] mother, selflessness, honor and courage will continue to be celebrated.”
Roque’s death is still under investigation, Chicago police told The Post, adding that it appears to be “domestic-related.”