Us mums would do anything for their kids. Wouldn’t we?

We use our spit to wipe their sticky little faces. We wipe a boogery nose with the backs of your hands if required. Withhold the gags as we change a particularly bad nappy. Attend concert, after concert and footy training after footy training in the freezing-icey-cold for our budding-stars.

And even suck rattlesnake venom from their feet.

Wait. What?

Well, you would, wouldnt you?

This super mum has done just that in an amazing display of maternal instinct.

Nine months pregnant Jaclyn Caramazza from Folsom, California has saved the life of her son in a (not recommended by the experts) display of remarkable bush skills.

She was out walking with her four-year old son, Vinny last week when he accidentally stepped on something brown.

http://ivillageau.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Jacklyn-Caramazza-1.jpg Jaclyn Caramazza, her husband and Vinny. (Facebook)

Something brown and pretty damn terrifying that coiled up at him.

“It wasn’t dog poop,” Vinny told KFOR.

“I know, it was a snake,” Jaclyn Caramazza said.

“I’m looking around, and took his shoes off, and lo-and-behold, there were two little puncture marks.”

The little boy had been bitten by a baby rattlesnake.

http://ivillageau.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Jacklyn-Caramazza5.jpg His foot was black and blue.

Just looking at the image of his foot you can image the horror that flooded through the body of this young mum.

Within minutes his ankle started to swell and turned black and purple as the venom spread to his entire leg.

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But its what she did next that is truly remarkable.

“Mama bear instinct in me decided to suck the venom because that’s what Bonanza does,” Jaclyn said.

For those of you younger than me who don’t remember Bonaza, it was that TV cowboy show set on a ranch with three mildly irritating and co-dependent sons and a widowed father.

http://ivillageau.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Jacklyn-Caramazza-2.jpg "That’s what Bonanza does"

So while she worked cowboy style on her son’s foot her husband raced home and got the car and within 15 minutes they had the little boy in the nearest hospital.

The soon to be mum-of-two has since learnt that, in fact, while her instinct was correct she did the wrong thing and that sucking venom from a snake bite is an "urban myth" and actually not the correct thing to do at all.

Mrs Caramazza said she was told venom could have entered her bloodstream if she had a cut in her mouth and it could have been dangerous for her.

http://ivillageau.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Jacklyn-Caramazza4.jpg Vinny in hospital.

She also said what she should have done was call an ambulance.

The Sacramento Bee reports that although they got Vinny to the hospital within 15 minutes calling an ambulance would have allowed paramedics to start an IV and call ahead to the hospital so the staff would have been ready to administer the anti-venom when they arrived.

Despite their mistakes they were lucky and this story has a happy ending.

Vinny spend two days in hospital and has now been released and the Caramazzas have spread the word that emulating Bonanza – nine-months pregnant or not – isn’t the way to treat a snakebite - even if you are MamaBear!

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