Water Safety With Kids: What Parents Need to Know – Podcast Ep 60
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Water Safety With Kids: What Parents Need to Know – Podcast Ep 60

It's summertime and families are spending more time in the water. With kids, you have to be safe, so we're talking all about water safety.

Published June 8, 2021

by Nina Spears

The Baby Chick®: Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Expert
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Now that summer is in full swing, water safety is at the forefront of every parent’s mind as we spend more time by the pool, at the beach, or at the lake. Drowning prevention and water safety have received more media attention in recent years. However, I think there is still a lot that people don’t know.

Today, I’m chatting with Natalie Livingston, a 25-year veteran of the aquatics industry and Co-Founder and Owner of the consulting and education firm ALIVE Solutions. Natalie spent 3 years as Vice President of OoASC, focusing on accident and drowning investigations, litigation support, and consulting and training programs for aquatics operations. She was previously the General Manager of the Wave Waterpark in Vista, CA, for ten years. She has worked at both public and private facilities. Natalie is a current lifeguard, lifeguard instructor, and lifeguard instructor trainer. She is also an Aquatic Facility Operator, Certified Pool Operator, Certified Park & Recreation Professional, and Certified Pool & Spa Inspector. Not only that, Natalie is currently on the World Waterpark Board of Directors.

Natalie is passionate about aquatic safety and training and development. She currently resides in Colorado with her husband and two kids. She answers our water safety questions and illuminates things every parent and caregiver needs to know about water safety. We’re so grateful to have her here to give us some tips and share her knowledge so we can be more prepared.

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Nina is The Baby Chick® & Editor-in-Chief of Baby Chick®. She received her baby planning certification in early 2011 and began attending births that same year. Since then, Nina has received her birth doula and postpartum doula certifications from DONA International, her childbirth educator certification from ICEA, her Hynobabies Hypno-Doula certification, and her infant massage instructor certification from Loving Touch, among other certifications. Nina has used her knowledge and expertise to teach and support families during their pregnancies, at their births, and throughout their postpartum journeys for over a decade.

Early in her career, Nina acquired her nickname from one of her birth doula clients, who lovingly referred to her as “The Baby Chick.” The “chick” who knows all about babies.…

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