Infant Swim Resource

We started our swim lessons today. Not so much swim lessons but survival swim lessons. Infant Swim Resource is a survival swim program that essentially teaches babies as young as 6 months old to float if they were to ever fall in a pool or other body of water. The videos of some of these babies floating is pretty amazing and being that this is south florida and drowing is a major cause of death amoung infants and toddlers I thought that this program was not only facinating but well worth the money. For babies under 1 year they only teach them to turn over onto their backs when they are in the water and float, after a year they also teach them to swim a few feet, roll over, float take a breath and them swim some more repeatedly until they reach a wall or safety. Its a 6 week program where you go every day. The lesson only lasts 10-15 minutes. Its quite a time commitment but again, i feel its very worth it. So today was our first lesson. He cried the entire time but not not load screams like some other kids I saw before him or after him, more like a pissed of complaining whiney cry. Yes, it sucks to see your child cry, and a lot of people feel this program is cruel (mostly because they think they throw the babies in the water and dont actually know anything about the program) but I strongly believe it is effective and well worth a few tears. And once the babies are confident in their abilities they wont be "afraid of water" like many people also believe. Anyways, the first 2 pictures are of him in the water with theinstructor. The third is of him laying on the side of the pool after, his hair sticking straight up due to the fact I was rubbinghis head after until he stopped whimpering, and the third is just cute. He looks mad but its actually just the shot, he was actually laughing and smiling after the lesson!!