to cry. Now she didn’t make a sound.
“I’d been told to raise their arms when
babies are choking, so I tried that, but
she still was hesitating to breathe,”
Kemira told To d a y. She knew Ryleigh
needed to get to the hospital fast.
The trio had barely made it out of
their Summerville, South Carolina,
neighborhood when the flashing lights
of a police cruiser appeared behindA Lifesaving Traffic Stop
K
emira Boyd had just jumped
in the shower when she heard
her stepmother, Tammy Boyd,
banging on the door. Kemira’s 12-day-
old daughter was choking. Having
fed and burped baby Ryleigh just
30 minutes earlier, the 24-year-old
new mother burst out of the bath-
room and began patting her daughter
on the back. Ryleigh was usually quickBy Caroline Fanning30 april 2020 Illustration by Gel Jamlang
Reader’s Digest
EVERYDAY MIRACLES