Wyatt Swims!

Wyatt is finally graduating from ISR swim lessons tomorrow!! Here's a video from yesterday's lesson of him doing the swim-float-swim in summer clothes. His swim teacher also simulated him falling into the pool a few different ways and he had to roll over and float until she was close enough for him to swim to her.... he did awesome! (I wasn't allowed to record that portion of the lesson)

Today's lesson was in winter clothes and then tomorrow he will go back to just a swim diaper and I'll be getting in the pool too, so she can show me how I need to be practicing with him. Wyatt absolutely LOVES swimming and we are so super proud of him!!

Wyatt Swims!

Wyatt is in last week of Infant Swim!! This video (below) was taken yesterday in just his swim diapers. Today, he had to do his lesson in summer clothes and shoes (and a regular diaper) and he did great! Tomorrow, he will do his lesson in winter clothes, shoes, and socks. So just in case he ever needs to use his skills, he will be familiar with how it feels no matter what he is wearing. We are soooooo proud of him! And he loves it (getting flipped into the water and everything).. he cries when he has to get out, lol.

Our little fish.....

Just a picture from today in his summer clothes...

I'm not sure if I'll be allowed to take anymore pictures/video but if I am, I'll have 1 more post on ISR. If anyone reading has any questions about the program, go ahead and ask! We were very unsure what it would be like before starting, but after going through it we highly recommend ISR.

www.infantswim.com

P.S. Scroll down if you haven't seen Wyatt's 9 month post!

-Mrs. 

Infant Swim Resource

I mentioned in Wyatt's 8 month update that he is taking "swim lessons." It's not actually swim lessons, but drowning prevention lessons. It's a program called Infant Swimming Resource where 6-12 month olds work one-on-one with a certified instructor to learn the skills necessary to prevent drowning in case baby accidentally falls into a pool (or any body of water)! At this age, the babies aren't necessarily taught how to swim, but how to roll over to his/her back and float until help comes (1-6 year olds learn the rollback to float in addition to swimming to the wall). This video is taken from the ISR website...

And here's a video of another 8 month old...

                                     

The program takes 4-6 weeks and because it is one-on-one everything is done at the baby's own pace depending on their speed of learning the skills and how they are handling it. Wyatt's schedule pretty much revolves around his lesson right now because they can't eat or drink 2 hours before the lesson, and the timing also shifted his naps a little bit. He is already in week 3 though and watching his progress (and the other babies/toddlers) has been amazing! He floats on his own and goes under water but he is in the middle of learning how to roll onto his back. Once the baby has all the skills learned, they have you bring them fully clothed since most babies are fully clothed when they drown and it feels different versus just having a diaper on. 

We are allowed to video-tape him at the end... they don't allow video-taping the methods/techniques they use to teach the skills. So hopefully we'll have a video up of Wyatt in a couple weeks!