Water Safety For Baby
Supervising your child while they are swimming is not enough to ensure water safety for baby. While supervising your child in or near water follow these tips…
- Don’t get distracted. Focus on your baby.
- Don’t talk with other adults, or supervise other children, no reading, no eating and no talking on the phone.
- Realize that there is false security in numbers. You may think that when there are a lot of adults around, that young swimmers are safe under multiple pairs of eyes. In fact, adults in groups can distract each other and may assume that someone else is watching.
- Keep your child within arm’s reach, even in a shallow pool. When baby’s fall face forward in waist-deep water, their feet go up and their head goes down. They may not have the coordination and strength to right themselves.
- You cannot rely on hearing that your child is in trouble. Drowning is usually silent, since drowning victims are usually unable to call for help.
- When in the water with your baby place the baby in the Heart2Heart baby water carrier. Read our product review on the Heart2Heart baby water carrier.
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