https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:12:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-846162 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:16:56 +0000 lovehoneybee 846162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@creativemomma15: That's our hope! We're actually going to miss the very last lesson because we'll be down at the beach with my ILs...the condo we're all staying at has a pool, and our main goal is really just to get him comfortable in the water before that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-846133 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:06:20 +0000 creativemomma15 846133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: so cute! I am glad to hear it went well! He will be a little fish by the end of all your lessons! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-846128 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:05:12 +0000 lovehoneybee 846128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@creativemomma15: Shockingly well! He definitely cried a bit, at first and then when we were practicing climbing out of the pool, but for the most part he was pretty mellow! And he was definitely not the only babe who cried...all of them cried at least once and some of them the whole time...by the end E was grinning! </p> [attach=1866/13/mo7f0p.600x400.image.jpg] [attach=1866/13/mo7f0q.568x568.image.jpg] [attach=1866/13/mo7f0s.600x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-846059 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:42:25 +0000 heffalump 846059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo surprisingly loved it. She has her moments where she either loves or hates swimming, so I wasn't sure how it would be. It really just depended on what we learned that day. Jumping in was a big hit.... But floating was a disaster.</p> <p>hope his lessons went well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-846042 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:37:48 +0000 creativemomma15 846042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: How did his first swim lesson go? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-840402 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:12:10 +0000 creativemomma15 840402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to take a water aerobics class at a retirement home and the pool water was SOOO warm and the room it was in was always heated to like mid 80s. So, hopefully it will be nice and warm there for him. I've taken DS there to swim a few times and it was always plenty warm for him... He gets cold easily too. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-lo-react-at-their-first-swim-lesson#post-840337 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:53:45 +0000 lovehoneybee 840337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have our first one tomorrow and we're really nervous about it. E HATED cold (or cool, or lukewarm) water. Screams bloody murder. We spent a few nights trying to cool down his bath water to get him used to it, and without AC last weekend I gave him a cool bath to cool him down (I had to get in with him, though, and he didn't stop crying until he'd managed to crawl onto my chest and latch on. I tried slowly drizzling water on him/lowering him into it and he started crying real tears.)</p> <p>I stopped after a few days because I don't want him to associate bath time with scream-time, and I was concerned it was starting to happen--he'd freak out as soon as I started the bath water, even before he was in it. No bueno. </p> <p>And not even just in the tub--we were at my IL's last weekend and DH dipped his toes into the pond in their backyard and he immediately screamed. </p> <p>So I think I'm understandably concerned about how he'll react tomorrow. We've brought him in a (semi-heated) pool once before and he cried the whole time. This is an indoor pool in a retirement village so I'm assuming it'll be on the warmer side, but I'm still imaging he'll freak out and scream. </p> <p>How did your LO react to the pool? Any tips/advice? </p>