Swim Class

With Scarlett's daycare shutting down for a week end of July, I signed up for swim class with her. I decided that it's about time I take a swim class with her. Many of my mommy friends have taken their babies to "swim class" well before they turned one. I'm now wishing I had. Yesterday was our first swim class. Before that, Scarlett has only gone "swimming" 3 times: twice in hotel pools during our Toronto trip and once at a friends house during the last heat wave. Of all those "dips" in the pool, she wasn't super keen about being in the water. Given that she loves to play with water, one would be surprised to find that she doesn't like being in a pool. The first day of class, she practically clung to me the whole time we were in the pool. She was scared, cold, and miserable. Even though she only had to do one thing, which was to kick her legs while I held her, she refused to try it. I had to find a fine balance between getting her more comfortable with swimming and not traumatizing her so much that she never wants to get in the pool again. This morning, we went again and she was slightly better but still cold, miserable, and freaked out. Let's just hope that I haven't waited too long to introduce her to swimming.