Hey
So yesterday was Harrys first Water Babies swim lesson. We got there and parked up and headed in to the reception and were met by a Water Babies staff member who signed us in and showed us the changing area and poolside. It's in a pyhsio place so the pool is only small and about chest high.
You basically get changed at the poolside as there'sonly 3 small changing cubicles. I had my costume on already so just a case of getting harry ready and away we went.
There was only 6 in the class so it was a nice small group and the pool was nice and warm. Harry is the youngest in the group. He seemed to enjoy it until about half way through and then I think he got a little bit tired and started crying. I'm hoping this gets better with time and he'll get better in the water and also not get as tired and cranky.
All in all it went well, looking forward to going back to the next lesson (in 2 weeks because of the school holidays). From what I've seen so far I think we made a good choice getting him booked into these lessons.
Donna
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Baby Swimming Lessons
Hey
David and I decided that we wanted Harry to get used to the water and swimming as soon as he could so that he wouldn't be afraid of the water and also because we both like to swim so didn't want him to miss out.
I looked into our local pool and found that they do baby lessons on a Tuesday morning, so I rang to find out what we needed to do to get him in the class. All we had to do was turn up and pay the fee on the day (£3.25). So we went a couple of weeks ago, all three of us set off and got down to the pool. Unfortunately the teacher was off ill so we didn't actually get to do the lesson but still had a dip in the water. Harry wasn't too sure at first but he seemed to settled down and we even dunked him under a couple of times.
So I couldn't go last week as I was at the doctors, but we went again this morning and the teacher was there. We did some floating on their backs and then on their fronts with a little teddy float under their chest. Harry did so well and was the youngest baby there by about a month, he did start to get a little tired towards the end and I took him out of the pool after 20 minutes, the lesson is only 30 minutes long and the teacher did tell me to take him out whenever I thought he'd had enough. I'm looking forward to next week and hopefully doing more in the water with him.
For his swimming lesson I've got him some Huggies Little Swimmers nappies and also a Happy Nappy swim nappy to go over the top of that. He then has a little water babies vest to keep him a little warmer so that he can stay in the water for a bit longer. We found that the first time we took him swimming he slept for the majority of that day and this time hasn't been much different. Poor little mite is tired out.
I've been told by a lady at the baby group that Water Babies is supposed to be the best swim class to take babies to so I may have a look into the price and things of those classes and see about possibly enrolling him into those.
Donna
x x
David and I decided that we wanted Harry to get used to the water and swimming as soon as he could so that he wouldn't be afraid of the water and also because we both like to swim so didn't want him to miss out.
I looked into our local pool and found that they do baby lessons on a Tuesday morning, so I rang to find out what we needed to do to get him in the class. All we had to do was turn up and pay the fee on the day (£3.25). So we went a couple of weeks ago, all three of us set off and got down to the pool. Unfortunately the teacher was off ill so we didn't actually get to do the lesson but still had a dip in the water. Harry wasn't too sure at first but he seemed to settled down and we even dunked him under a couple of times.
So I couldn't go last week as I was at the doctors, but we went again this morning and the teacher was there. We did some floating on their backs and then on their fronts with a little teddy float under their chest. Harry did so well and was the youngest baby there by about a month, he did start to get a little tired towards the end and I took him out of the pool after 20 minutes, the lesson is only 30 minutes long and the teacher did tell me to take him out whenever I thought he'd had enough. I'm looking forward to next week and hopefully doing more in the water with him.
For his swimming lesson I've got him some Huggies Little Swimmers nappies and also a Happy Nappy swim nappy to go over the top of that. He then has a little water babies vest to keep him a little warmer so that he can stay in the water for a bit longer. We found that the first time we took him swimming he slept for the majority of that day and this time hasn't been much different. Poor little mite is tired out.
I've been told by a lady at the baby group that Water Babies is supposed to be the best swim class to take babies to so I may have a look into the price and things of those classes and see about possibly enrolling him into those.
Donna
x x
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