Swimming baby!

I love the swimming pool, and the ocean, and air terjun, and river and waterpark. Water places! Except I do not like showering. ehem..heheh
I always knew that I want Maryam to enjoy the water as much as DH and I do.
We call ourselves water buffs, only, truth be told, we can only swim to save our life.
Cant even save the person next to us. Tsk.
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So when Maryam turned 9 months old, I decided its time for her to hit the water!
I was googling this neck float I saw at a mother's blog, thinking of getting one for Maryam.9
As I was looking around, I came across on pages about teaching your baby to swim.
One says by the time babies turn 10 months old, they will develop natural fear of water. This is when they started kicking and splashing went they get into the pool.
Boy did I panicked! Told the husband we MUST take the little miss to the public pool right this weekend!
Now I bought Maryam's swimming suit when I was about 6 months pregnant. I wanted THAT much for her to enjoy the water! hahahha.It was on sale, Speedo for RM10!Steallllll!
And I learnt that float, neck float and such is not an option because it provide false security for the baby. So, strike that one off.
Next I looked for swimming diaper but found the only kind I could get my hands on asap is the disposble one. So we went and bought the Huggies swimming diaper at carrefour.
Although we are still looking for a good swim diaper online, since her disposable ones are running out. But at steal prices of course *cheapskatemom*. hey to my defense, swim wear are darn expensive, adult or baby!
I was really confident I would teach my baby to swim myself. Hey they say parents are natural teachers dont they? and teaching her means I would spend a lot of time with her. And I would save a lot on swimming lesson fees *cheapskatemom* ok to be honest, the save up on fee is the primary reason!
there you have it, I wanted the lesson free..hahahahahha
and beside Its hard to find lessons for baby. I doubt there's even one in JB.
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Well, you sure can tell this entry will be in parts!
As for now, for those who are interested to train their little fishes on their own, go to this site www.uswim.com
I followed their method, printed the tutorials and all.
I love uswim! Will be blogging more on swimming baby pretty soon, so stick around!