Water Safety Tips for You and Your Baby
Do you know the water safety tips dealing with your baby around water?
Every parent’s worst fear is that something terrible will happen to his or her child. As a new parent, everything in the home suddenly looms as a terrifying threat to your child’s health and well being. Water safety is probably one of the biggest concerns of parents, particularly if they own a pool or have relatives who own a pool. Water safety is important to be aware of in the bath tub, in and around the pool, with common cleaning routines and even the toilet. With some common water safety tips, you can protect your children and make wise, educated decisions regarding childproofing your home.
One water safety tip concerns the bathroom. The bathroom can pose a threat to children in several areas.
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Generally water safety tips do not mention this tip, but it is a very real danger. For toddlers, the toilet is a source of fascination, especially when they learn to flush. However, a toddler who can reach into the toilet can fall in and be unable to get out. This can be prevented by removing any steps or stools that the child can push to the toilet base and climb upon. If you have any rugs on the bathroom floor, make sure that they have a non skid underside or tape them to the floor. A rug that slides can cause a very bad fall and if it is next to the toilet, the child can fall in. Also, you can close the lid, although that is not completely failsafe. Your best bet is to keep the bathroom door closed. Install a latch if you must, but keep the door closed to keep the baby out of the room.
In the bath tub, you should stay with your child until they are school age, which is five or six years old. A child can drown in a ½ inch of water, so it does not take much. A very good water safety tip that many baby sites endorse is the use of a bath seat. In a bath seat, the child sits inside it and his or her legs extend through leg openings. There is a tray around the child, ensuring that he or she can not fall over or slide down. This allows baby to play in the water a little, but allows parents a little freedom because wet babies are slippery to hold up so this seat means that you do not have to hold the baby while they play in the water but do not leave the baby unattended. These types of seats are bathing aids not safety devices. When you remove the baby from the water, allow all the water to drain out first.
Around the pool, use floaties while the child is in the water. There are several varieties, the type that fits on the arms and the type that the child sits in are the two most common. Anything that requires the child to hold on to it to remain buoyant is not recommended for younger children, even as old as five or six. An adult should be with the child at all times, watching the baby closely.
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One adult can not effectively watch more than three or four small children at one time. Outside of the pool, many pool safety tips advocate installing a fence around the pool. An additional pool safety tip, though, is to install a latch on the gate, not locking, but child proof. A locked gate could prevent someone from getting into the pool area to rescue a child who may get in accidentally.
The final pool safety tip can also apply to the entire home. Many pool sides have buckets of water where the pool has been cleaned or areas are being cleaned. In the home, parents can leave full mop buckets about. This is very dangerous to a toddler because he or she can fall in and be unable to get out.
A child who falls into a bucket of water or liquid head first may be unable to right himself or herself and will drown. Make sure that as soon as you are finished with a bucket of liquid you either lock it in an area that the child absolutely can not access or you empty it immediately. If you walk away, keep either the child or the bucket with you and do not let the child out of your sight until the bucket is empty.
Water safety is important whether you have a pool or not. Even kiddie pools can pose a threat if the children are not supervised. In any event, it is very important that parents learn first aid and CPR. These are two things that you hope you will never need, but if you do, you want to be prepared. Knowing these two vital skills may someday allow you to save your child’s or another child’s life. Additionally, you are much less likely to panic and lose valuable time if you are prepared and know what to do. Don’t wait for the unthinkable to happen before you become prepared. Be proactive, take steps now to implement the water safety tips mentioned and continue your research on water safety. Someday you may save a life.
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