to let my 2 yeaar old go in the jaccuzi at the pool?

[JeanPoole]

she loves it, we had a swim this am then we went in the jaccuzzi, we start off by letting her sit on the legde with her feet in, then she gets in and stands on the seating area.

someone told me that i shouldn't let her go in it today, but we have gone in there loads of times before.
never harmed her in anyway
she dosn't swallow the water or anything and i don't think its too hot.

what do you think?

Morningpaper one of my children has a medical problem and consequently I NEVER turn my phone off in case I get a call about him.

I have always explained this apologetically to hospital staff, while having scans, babies (didn't have it with me in theatre though, I thought just that once school would have to manage ), or while visiting my dying Dad.

They have always been absolutely fine about it.

Norkybutnice, am now getting a flashback to the old red, black and white poster with the boy and girl with hearts in between them !!

Just as well as I wouldn't have known what petting was when I was nine. Actually, I am still not sure, although I know what Heavy Petting is (just not what Petting Lite is.)

Our local pool has a jacuzzi joined onto the baby pool! It seems to share the water with the rest of the area, as you can wade in, but it's much warmer in there than the rest of the pool because of the hot jets inside. You usually can't get a seat because of all the small children playing with the bubbles! I take my toddler in there - he loves it. We're not daft enough to stay there for ages, but I don't think it - or any other pool jacuzzi I've used - is any hotter than his bath, which I still use a baby thermometer on.

good point, Norky.

The other day I practically front crawled into a couple in the deep end SNOGGING the faces off each other. It was gross. I have absolutley no idea what they were up to underneath the water. (I had no goggles on).

Sadly there isn't a 'No Petting' sign up at our pool. If there was, I have no doubt this pair would have spied it, said 'fair point' and gone about their lengths with no thought of tonsil exchanging.

Or, in the spirit of flouting spa rules, they probably would have ignored it and carried on copulating.

I love a bit of 'petting' in a jacuzzi

THAT is why you should keep yer bloomin kids out.

ok, i get all this about blood pressure & infection. but, seriously, how hot is a jacuzzi if people think the heat will kill a child. cos, yeah, it's on the news ALL the time about how babies in Africa, America, Australia, just get wiped out every time it gets hot.
seriously, the world would be almost unpopulated if babies really did just keel over & die every time the temp went above a certain level! i know people should be sensible, but i've never heard of kids dying from a heat wave, excpet by associated things like dehydration!

no petting - perhaps that lady thought you were eyeing her up?

TBH at age 2 your dc will be too likely to wee in the jacuzzi to make it responsible to risk them going in - is worse than weeing in pool as will not be diluted by mass of water.

Once kids have reached 6 or 7, though, I would say it is the complaining old ladies who are more likely to pee in the jacuzzi TBH!

Blanket bans on under 12s are not really to do with any real health risks for kids, more to do with the British intolerance of even well behaved, quiet kids (am assuming you are in UK, OP, though correct me if I am wrong).

When I visited friends in Finland, we went to an aqua park with jacuzzi and steam sauna. Lots of kids in both, it is accepted as normal there. The rule is that they are safe to go in as soon as they are old enough to walk out of the jacuzzi or steam room as soon as they are uncomfortable. I would trust the safety rules of the Finns here, they did after all invent the sauna!

Having enjoyed using jacuzzi and steam room in Finland, it is difficult for my 9yo dd to understand why she cannot use them here. All I can say to her is that it is not fair but that is sadly the rule.

On the one occasion that I let her dip her toes (ONLY her toes!) in the jacuzzi at our local club, within seconds an elderly lady marched up to a member of staff and demanded that she be removed! Crikey, she does not have any infectious diseases!

anyway, I am rambling!

In short, YABU to let such a young child not yet in full control of wees and poos use the jacuzzi, but YANBU to object to the ban of all under 12s.

Our Lay z spa only goes up to 40 degrees.I think that's the case with all of them. In reality it's probably only 37.

I work in a Health club and would just like to second what has been said about the dangers to children being:
Overheating- this is more likely if they have just come straight from the pool which is a much cooler temp.
Blood pressure
Infection_ Basically because of the low chlorine level sitting in a spa with other people is like sharing a bath with stangers, you do not know what you could catch and I would not like to take this risk with kids, I have seena n empty spa and it is not nice, the filter system is totally different to the pool and all kinds of crap can stay there until it is drained.
Safety the jets can suck in it is not unheard of for someones shorts or hair to become trapped.
AFAIK different pools have different age restrictions for their spa but no where should let under 5's in
Take your kids to an aventure pool they will have more fun, can be as noisey as they like and as long as you are watching them they will be safer imo

AuntMaggie - who the hell would stick their head under the water in a jacuzzi!?

Got to agree, if a dc doesn't have the sense not to do that then they should not go in.

Pools average between 34 and 36 depedind on clientelle
Spa usually round about 38 I think

Mamadiva - so why aren't the old ladies banned if health advice you quoted states jacuzzis can be dangerous for them?

someguy, how do you get one with that lazy spa?

go on, i mean!

Overheating is an issue of heat exchange. The temperature of the spa may feel much warmer than the main pool but will not heat children to a higher temperature than if they'd come into it from anywhere else. If this were the case our food would cook itself at room temperature because I keep it in the freezer.
A quick rise in body temperature however might cause faintness which is a different issue.

she sits on the edge with her feet dangling in for 5 mins mins or less then stans up in the seated area.

so she doesn't go from the pool right into the tub, but like i said the showers are hotter than the spa.

I'm not too bothered about your kid's health but I am bothered about her pissing in the jacuzzi. Yeuch

Not surprised all the other adults give you the evil eye. I would too

I think in a jacuzzi it's the body fluids from 45 year old men that concern me most TBH

I'm not sure if someone else has mentioned this but be wary of jacuzzis attached to pools that use the pool water. The jacuzzi action creates a cloud of chlorine gas/droplets at little person head height which is obviously poisonous. I took my son in one on holiday and he started to turn green, stood up and was sick.
When I put my head close to the surface of the water I realized I could barely breathe in the cloud of fumes. The hotel Receptionist told me he was not the first to have this problem - not even the first that day!

I am about to have a major rant here.

JeanPoole who do you think you are that you can flout rules, do what the feck you like just because you feel like it? That woman at the pool was totally within her rights to point out that your child should not be in the jacuzzi. Whether the reason is because it is dangerous to your child's health, or they don't want small children pissing in such a confinded space or in fact they just want one small area where adults can enjoy some blessed peace & quiet away from screaming kids, that is entirely up the the hotel. If the sign says no children, it means NO CHILDREN AT ALL. NADA. NONE. And that includes YOUR child.

Grr. Why do some fuckwits people seem to think they are above rules?

Get some perspective poeple. It's just a little girl in a jacuzzi. The way people are reacting you would have thought a law had been broken. Jeez.

And why does everyone automatically presume her daughter is weeing in it? I'm sure a high percentage of adults who use it have wee'd in there.

why would an adult piss in a jacuzzi ?

who are these adults ?

the old folk are probably urinating in there.

I'm with Merrylegs here - germs, germs and more germs...

However, I do resent the fact that we are constantly being denied the right to use our own common sense.