A mother worried about the wellbeing of her baby has designed a quick-reference CD packed with first aid information.

Debbie Murphy-Latham, of Windsor Close, Carterton, came up with Angels First Aid after Natasha was born nine months ago.

Although her husband Pete is trained in emergency medicine, it dawned on her that she had no idea what to do to help her daughter in a life-threatening situation when he was not around.

She said: "It's fine when he's with us, but what would I do if there was a problem and he wasn't there? The only thing really available is a first aid manual, which is fine, but very often it sits on a shelf gathering dust and is out of date when you use it.

"If you have a child who has stopped breathing, are you going to find the manual, find the relevant page and hold it open while you carry out the first aid?

"As a result, I came up with the CD idea, which you can use in a car stereo, a home hi-fi, on your computer, or download on to an MP3 player."

Mrs Murphy-Latham said: "The CD costs £9.99, but we are donating 50p from each sale to the NSPCC, and in the future we're keen to work with other groups in Oxfordshire. Also, anyone who buys the CD can give us their details, so we can update them on any changes in first aid in the future."

But mother-of-two Mimi Powell, whose daughter Madeline, two, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford last April when she fell unconscious after choking, said the CD might not always be the first thing she would think of.

Ms Powell, of Chesterton, near Bicester, said: "I think I would possibly use it for things like insect bites or when one of the kids cut themselves, but I'd want to have listened to it a few times before something actually happened. I don't think searching for the CD would be the first thing on my mind in an emergency though. It would take too many valuable seconds to set up and I'd rather just phone 999."