She loves to swim and seems to have no fear of the water at all. While visiting my parents for her birthday, she would try to get into the pool herself and that made everyone very nervous so when we got back from our trip, I started doing research into swim classes.
We went twice a week for several months and would have loved to have gone longer but we were driving 3 hours round trip for a 10 minute lesson and after I got pregnant, it really started wearing on both of us. Plus we were coming up on the start of winter and we didn't want Jordyn and I driving that far with potential bad weather we have here in the winter so we are waiting to do the next session. When we left, there was a rumor that they may open up a satellite location in our town so we are keeping our fingers crossed for that.
In the meantime, she goes with Beau to the YMCA where he does his work outs because they have an indoor heated pool and her instructor showed him lots of things to work with her on so she wouldn't forget anything.
We loved her lessons. Its a great setup and they seem to have it down to a science. They cram a lot into the 10 minute lesson and once she got over the "your not my mom!" thing, she LOVED them. She learned to hang onto the side of the pool and keep her head out of the water and how to float on her back. She hasn't quite mastered that but she is getting there. She learned to go all the way under the water without trying to take a breath and got over the fear of getting her face and ears wet very quickly.
The pool is indoors and is in a separate room than the waiting room for parents. They said they used to have parents get into the pool with them but they found that it took the kids longer to grasp things as they were more worried about where the parent was so now they do an "out of side, out of mind" thing with the parents. The instructors just stay in the pool, parents hand the kid over and leave the room. Then they hand them back when they are done. The room does have a large window so you can watch but stay out of eyeshot of the kids so they can focus.
We are going to visit my family again in October this year so we are hoping to have her in even better shape before we get there since she will be around a pool while we are there. We are definitely going to be getting her a little life vest or floaties for when she is playing in the pool but we want to make sure that she is able to keep her face out of the water should she fall in. Last time we visited, she wasn't walking and now she is running so...
I would definitely recommend them for sure! They are a little on the pricy side but watching the older kids and talking to other moms, it is totally worth it. They had classes with 3-4 year olds who had been in the classes since they were small and they could swim better than most adults I've seen.
I do hope that they open a location in our town and hopefully there is an option similar to this in the next town we live in so we can continue with Jordyn's lessons and get Peanut in them as well.
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