Last week I faced one of the worst fears a parent could ever face.

I watched my daughter be resuscitated after drowning in a pool. There were three adults and 4 kids, we were all busy putting on sun screen but we failed to notice that my oldest had wandered off towards the deep-end, fall in, swallow water and sink to the bottom of the pool. My brother-in-law noticed first that she was down there and dived right in and we started CPR right away while my brother-in-law's wife dialed 9-1-1. She started breathing 30 seconds after intense CPR and Mouth to Mouth. She took a big breath, vomited more water and started crying. There was a wave of relief; this could have gone so much worse. The ambulance arrived shortly after and she was rushed to the hospital.It took three days for her to finally get the all clear from the hospital along with a follow-up with her normal pediatrician. Why three days? Pool chemicals have a way of irritating lungs and messing with little kids. And there are secondary and tertiary effects from drowning such as dry-drowning and pneumonia. It took 36 hours after she was rushed to the hospital to be told that we were out of the woods and that we could breath a sigh of relief that she'd be ok with no long lasting physical effects.One of us should have been watching the pool. One of us should have been vigilant. But we weren't as vigilant as we should have been. Too many assumptions about who was on point and the abilities of our kids were there.For all of you parents out there who go on vacation or frequent pools enough. Don't be complacent in your vigilance of watching over your little ones. All it takes is 1 second, a brief turn away for one of them to go down into the pool and you won't even hear it. We will from now on assign 1 adult as the water watcher. We all know CPR so we can handle things should one of them go in and start sinking but had 1 of us been the water watcher, we could have avoided it.She's doing well and doesn't remember much but we've been keeping an eye on her not just with her physical state but her mental/emotional state as well. I don't think I will be the same after seeing that happen and facing my worst fear ever. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2U2w47f