Today the time had finally come: the first underwater photos were taken during baby swimming at the Berlin Accident Hospital!
In this Baby Day article you will find out how the children and parents react and what else we did.
Baby Swimming – Day 9
There was a lot going on today, I tell you! Not like in previous courses with just 2 other candidates, but six of them! Then there were the parents and the 2 course leaders! It was chaos!
Before we went diving however we had another singing circle
We took the water train through Spritzstadt (where we splash water), Splashdorf (where we splash into the water), Kickdorf (where the children kick their feet in the water) and Hoppingstadt (where the children were lift out of the water).
And I have to say, it’s twice as much fun with such a large singing circle! The children thought so too. They look around with interest and squeal when they got water on them while splashing.
Visit to Arielle
I always think it’s great that the course leaders always come up with something new in addition to the usual rituals. And that’s what it was like this lesson. A visit to Arielle’s underwater world was plann. The parents were already beginning to have questions. But the course leader immiately explain that we wouldn’t be diving yet. Don’t panic!
Like chickens on a perch, we stood in the starting blocks and wait for the instructor’s instructions.
The first thing we saw was the frog. This exercise was quite simple: the children had to be lift out of the water. Those who dar could let go of their child for a moment while throwing it up. Like a frog, we hopp with our little ones to the opposite ge of the pool.
Baby Swimming – Day 9 – Frog swims in the water
Then it was the turn of the water snake: the children were to be held by the hands while lying on their stomachs and pull through the water in a snaking line. To keep Oli in the stomach position, I simply swam on my back and pull him along with me. This is just faster than walking through the water.
For the seahorse, the children were suppos to look away from us. benin mobile database With one arm, we reach between the legs and held the upper body with the other hand. The back could be support with the other hand. Now we were suppos to lift the children out of the water in a similar way to the frog.
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Finally came the moray eel: we pull the children by their hands to the other side of the pool while they were lying on their backs. Of all the exercises, this was the one the children enjoy the least. Some even start to cry. The children simply don’t like lying on their backs. But I was already familiar with that from previous swimming lessons.
It doesn’t mean that you have to stop doing it forever. Just keep testing it. If a child doesn’t like the exercise, just leave it and try again later.
Somewhat disappoint that we couldn’t visit Arielle
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This exercise remind me quite strongly of retrieving in dogs.
Each child was allow to grab a polystyrene building block, the happy company 5 reasons for happiness management in your company which we then threw into the water a little further away. The aim was to get the 1000 mobile phone numbers children to kick their feet and get it. The process was to be repeat until they reach the other side of the pool. The building block was then thrown into a bucket and the next one was fetch.
The only problem was that the children weren’t really that interest in their building blocks. So the parents wav the building blocks around as if they were treats.