[blparent] Swimming pools at home

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Yes either a swim diaper, or a cloth swimmer diaper as real diapers are
going to expand really big and become very heavy.



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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jessica
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:07 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Swimming pools at home

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. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of jill
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:13 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Swimming pools at home
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Pipi
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:52 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Swimming pools at home
> 
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Swimming pools at home
> 
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:47 PM
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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