Thursday 29 April 2010

Swimming

This week I've taken Caleb swimming for the first time in ages. Hes previously been twice in his life due to my body image problems, so this week I decided to take him and make a regular thing of it. Hes loving it. He tries to kick his legs and splashes non stop. I bought him a floatie seat and he spends half the time in there while I swim him up and down the pool and the other half i take him out and we play.

I love that at that age they seem to have no fear of the water and as I didnt do it with Sophie and always felt guilty that she didnt swim until a couple of years ago, I want Caleb to have confidence and swim early on. I wouldnt be surprised if he does too.

Being a boy, his favourite thing has to be sitting on the poolside and jumping into my arms though, which causes much hilarity.

Does anyone have any tips or pointers for me as a novice swim mumma ? If so I'd love to hear how your little ones learnt to swim.

4 comments:

  1. I googled "baby swim." You want to teach them to float first--babies are very bouyant!

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  2. Me & Oli do exactly the same! He adores his floaty seat! I used to be rather conscious about my body but I've grown ok to it now - I'm proud of my stretch marks and baby tummy!
    I just wish my OH wasn't so ashamed of his body , bless him. Going to be watching your replies as I would like to know what to do with Oli to help teach him to swim! :) xx

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  3. I'm yet to take BG swimming, I really must start taking her x

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  4. I'm not exactly thrilled to be in a swimsuit but it's worth it when I see how happy and excited my daughter is in the pool! We really should go more often but I am not confident in the pool myself so only go when hubby can come too.

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