A shopper stopped the bus he was on and dashed to help save a baby who had stopped breathing in her distraught mother’s arms.
Ivan Teece, 24, was on the No 473 when he saw 10-month-old Summer Hodgson’s mother Holly screaming for help in Stratford.
Mr Teece, of nearby Custom House, said: “The baby’s head was right back and the woman was standing there just crying and screaming.
“There were about 20 people standing around watching but I think everyone was simply in shock. They didn’t know what to do.
“I ran down from the top floor, right through the bus, and shouted to the driver to stop.”
Mr Teece, a systems manager at London City Airport, then raced to the panic-stricken mother’s side and carried baby Summer to a nearby medical centre. He said: “She was standing there screaming, ‘My baby’s not breathing’. I was running with the baby in my arms.
“She was blue at this point and it was awful to look down on. There was a moment when I thought she was going to die in my arms.
“But then I heard a gasp of air and she was groaning.
“When we got into the medical centre about 100 yards away the baby started crying and it was the happiest sound.” Doctors said Summer’s airways were blocked from tonsillitis but Ms Hodgson said she is now doing well.
The relieved mother has invited Mr Teece to Summer’s first birthday party in May at their Stratford home.
She said: “I am so proud of Ivan and I will always be eternally grateful to him for what he did for us that day.”
