Adelaide couple's message for new parents

An Adelaide couple whose premature son suddenly stopped breathing have urged other new parents to undergo CPR training.

Sebastian Phillips was just one month old when his airway suddenly closed while he was feeding.

Parents Joel and Penny Phillips had recently undergone infant CPR training when the incident, something which ultimately saved their own son’s life.

Joel sprung unto action performing mouth-to-mouth, while his wife called Triple-0.

“One of the doctors said ‘he's here, you did the right thing’,” the young father told 9News.

“In my head we'd lost him and then when he started to show signs of life, I just said to Penny: ‘he's responding’.”

The audio of Penny’s triple zero call was released to 9News, and in it the mother's fear is evident as the emergency first unfolded, then her relief as her son started to breathe again.

“He, he's started breathing again...oh my God...oh he's started crying,” she can be heard saying.

“My husband just resuscitated him.”

Sebastian is now 11 weeks old, and healthy and happy.

He has no ongoing issues as a result of the traumatic incident, which took place just weeks after his parents underwent CPR training by midwife Annette Thornton at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

They were given the training because their son had been born prematurely.

“I'm just so glad that CPR was taught to this family and that Sebastian is here with us today,” Ms Thornton said.

The parents now urging others to learn they first aid they would need, to save their child’s life.