[blparent] Swimming pools at home

Jessica jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 22 19:06:35 UTC 2011 

Our pool just opened here at our apartments and I want to go and take Michael. He has a floaty type thing but do I need to get like special diapers?

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On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:44 AM, "PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com> wrote:

> Yeah we've got something like that too. 
> You could also just use a regular lifejacket too. 
> 
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> Hi,
> Just a suggestion for your daughter, Wal-Mart now sells a swimsuit with the
> foam like a life jacket sown inside of it.  It was in the toy dept with all
> the beach toys and pool supplies.  I got one for Olivia who is 11 months but
> they had sizes which went up to like 30 or 40 pounds I think.  We went into
> a friend's in ground pool and I held onto her, but the floats did help.  It
> states that it is not a life saving device, but might help her since she is
> leery of the inflatable things.
> Jill
> 
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> Behalf Of Pipi
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> I take care of my 8 and 12 year old niece and nephew. Even though they get 
> mad at me, I stick by the rule that children under 16 will not swim without 
> an adult present. When it is me being the adult, I am in the pool with them,
> 
> or sitting with my feet on the side. I have some usable sight, but still 
> have taught them that when I call out, they will answer, or we are done.
> As for Savannah at 2 1/2 going swimming, I'm probably way over protective, 
> but oh well. I don't allow many to take her in the pool. She is afraid of 
> inflatable things, so I've never been able to use the baby toys or floaties 
> with her.I've started teaching her the basics of swimming, and as soon as 
> she is old enough, she will have lessons.
> We do have a portable pool in our yard. There is no fence around it, but I 
> dump it after use. It's a very small pool just for Savannah. We don't swim 
> everyday. Safety is more important than my water bill.
> Water fun is one area that scares me and I will take the extra precautions 
> to make it an enjoyable and safe time for all involved.
> 
> Just my thoughts.
> Pipi
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> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:09 AM
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> 
>> Please, please, everybody read this and take it to heart.  I have a friend
> 
>> who is very close to a couple whose ten-year-old little girl nearly 
>> drowned this summer.  It was in a swimming pool at an apartment complex, 
>> and the parents were keeping an eye on the child but also moving boxes and
> 
>> furniture out of an apartment at the same time.  The little girl was only 
>> under water a few minutes, and her dad knew CPR and started it as soon as 
>> she was pulled out.  But she was on a ventillator for quite a while, and 
>> now it's a very slow recovery process in the hospital.  Her mind seems to 
>> be intact, but she will probably end up blind and with severe damage to 
>> her motor skills.  It's all very sad, and it happened so quickly. 
>> Supervision can't be stressed enough.  And also teaching your kids how to 
>> swim, at least enough to save themselves and not to panic, is crucial.
>> 
>> My 15-year-old stepson doesn't know how to swim, and it scares me to 
>> death. I won't take him and Sarah to the pool without a sighted person. 
>> Sarah I could put in her Water Wings and stay close to her and we'd be 
>> fine, but both of them would be too much for me.  I took them to the local
> 
>> water park last week, and even though there were lifeguards on duty, I 
>> brought along a teenager--I paid for her gas and her ticket into the park.
> 
>> She knows Sarah well.  I told Stephen and the teenage girl that they could
> 
>> trade off, so each of them could do the water slides on their own, but 
>> that the rule was, one of them had to have their eyes on Sarah at all 
>> times, period.  The girl said I was paranoid, there were a lot of 
>> lifeguards.  I told her she'd be a mom someday, and then she'd understand,
> 
>> but for the moment she just better accept that I had the right to be 
>> paranoid, and that it wouldn't change. Especially with poor Hannah 
>> drowning this summer, and all I've seen that family go through, you just 
>> can't be too careful.  I see moms in the complex here sending their 
>> elementary age children to the pool with their preschool age siblings all 
>> the time, and it scares me to no end.
>> 
>> Two bits worth of free advice and anecdotes,
>> Jo Elizabeth
>> 
>> "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
>> unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
>> advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
>> 
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>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:47 PM
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>> Subject: [blparent] Swimming pools at home
>> 
>>> 
>>> Tots can drown in portable swimming pools, too
>>> 
>>> By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
>>> 
>>> Portable pools pose a greater safety threat to small children than many
>>> parents realize, a new study suggests.
>>> 
>>> About two dozen children each year drown in portable pools, according to 
>>> a
>>> study published today in Pediatrics. Nearly all are under age 5.
>>> 
>>> Unlike permanent pools, portable pools aren't typically required to meet 
>>> any
>>> local safety standards, says study author Gary Smith, director of the 
>>> Center
>>> for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in
>>> Columbus, Ohio.
>>> 
>>> Smith notes that portable pools are increasingly popular and come in all
>>> sizes. Hard-plastic wading pools, which hold about 18 inches of water, 
>>> may
>>> cost only a few dollars at a local drugstore. Family-size, inflatable 
>>> pools,
>>> nearly as large as a small, in-ground pool, can cost closer to $1,000, he
>>> says.
>>> 
>>> These pools pose unique risks, says Meri-K Appy,  president of Safe Kids
>>> USA, an advocacy group. Few people, for example, are willing to invest in
>>> building a safety fence around a portable pool  one of the best ways to
>>> prevent drownings  because a fence could cost more than the pool itself.
>>> 
>>> These pools are too small for people to invest in an isolation fence but 
>>> too
>>> large to drain every time," Appy says.
>>> 
>>> About 11% of all pool drowning deaths in kids under 5 take place in 
>>> portable
>>> pools,  the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
>>> 
>>> Children drowned in as little as 2 inches of water, according to the 
>>> study,
>>> based on data from a total of 209 deaths from 2001 to 2009.
>>> 
>>> About 43% of the children were being supervised when they went under 
>>> water;
>>> 39% were unsupervised; and 18% of kids died during a "lapse" in 
>>> supervision.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Parents don't always understand that it just takes a couple of minutes 
>>> for
>>> children to be submerged under water for their breathing and heart to 
>>> stop,"
>>> Smith says. What's different about drowning is that it's quick, it's 
>>> silent
>>> and it's final.
>>> 
>>> When supervising kids in the water, Appy says, caregivers need to give
>>> children their full attention and be only an arm's length away. Children
>>> have died at swimming parties, surrounded by others, because adults 
>>> weren't
>>> within reach.
>>> 
>>> Drowning is the leading cause of death from unintentional injuries in
>>> children ages 1 to 4, causing 29% of these deaths  more even than traffic
>>> accidents, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They
>>> include not only pools and lakes but bathtubs. Parents also should learn
>>> CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, says Susan Baker, professor with 
>>> the
>>> Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. The study notes that
>>> few parents even attempted CPR, perhaps because they doubted their 
>>> skills.
>>> 
>>> 
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