Daniel had his first baby swimming session today.
He woke up early again in the morning around 6am , so I fed him breakfast at 7am and pushed him to the local park for his morning nap at 8am. It's a very sunny day and the park was quiet at this sort of time with only Daniel and me, I pushed him along the path round and round couple of times before he finally settle to his nap, then I sat on the bench reading the Gina's Baby Sleep Guide. Daniel managed to get 1 hour nap, I think it would be enough to get him through the swimming session without being fretful, we backed home around 9.30am and I spent half hour getting swimming bag ready (his stuff and my stuff), I bought Daniel his first wet suit, swimming pants long time ago, somehow waited until today to get used...
Daniel was really scared and anxious when we were in the family changing room and he screamed then i had to hold him to put things in the locker and carried car seat into the pool. The swimming pool were very busy this morning, lots of babes and toddlers. Daniel was very nervous at the beginning, after I dipped him into the toddler pool and put him on top of a jacuzzi, he started to relax a bit and enjoy the water massage on his bottom. Seeing him relaxed a bit I moved to slightly deep water and put him on his tummy, he instinctively started to kick his legs... he was quite good on breaststroke but not on backstroke, once I put him in water on his back he would start to cry, also he would cry when water got in his mouth and ear. Daniel started walking like a little man in the water with the aid of floatation from water. The pool was quite noisy and toddlers kept splashing water all over us but Daniel seemed OK with that.Couple of mothers watched him saying he does well considering this is his first time... After being in water for half hour I thought Daniel would be getting cold ( I didn't bother his wet suit in the end , the pool temperature was 31 C), so I got him out of water wrapped him up in his baby towel, getting out the camera wanting to take Daniel's first swimming pictures but I was stopped by the lifeguard-on-duty saying camera was not allowed in this premise. Never mind! Daniel seemed still want to be in water so we played another 10 minutes more... 40 minutes I said 'it's enough! ', Wrapped him up we backed to shore, I fed him half pot of yogurt at pool side as his last course for today's swimming session.
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Sounds like Daniel is a natural! Should come to Australia to enjoy the beach and water more often!
What a shame there is no photo. Would love to see him next to the pool or in the water.
We also heard a lot about "no camera in the pool or beach" policy, but so far nobody stopped me taking photos. :)
I think the leisure center probably wouldn't want to lose the oppurtunity of making money on offering professional photogragh service for little swimmers.
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