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More detailed diagrams showing the moves used during our baby's swimming lessons. Following on from part 1 of the baby swimming diagrams.
By Dad
Some of the techniques such as 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'holding on' need a swimming pool to illustrate correctly so I've been working on a 3D Swimming pool. I've based it on a cross between where we have our lessons and the baby pool at our local public swimming pool. Both are a similar size and depth (a little less than waist deep).
The bar that the babies hold onto is different though. At some pools it's a kind of gutter, where we have our lessons it's a thick bar (very difficult for a baby to hold onto), and our local pool has the water level so high the edge of the pool is where you hold on. For the model I've used a metal bar.
...... Read the rest of this Article >>There are now quite a lot of articles about teaching your baby to swim on the Website. I've put together some diagrams, which you may find useful to reference as you read the articles.
By Dad
I've spent all Weekend drawing the Baby Swim Shorts and you can't really see them in the pictures. What you can see though is the exact positions that we use in the lessons. I think being able to see under the water helps too.
I'll add more of the swimming routines and positions, in part 2, possibly even get some animations up if I have time. I've mixed in real life pictures of myself and Amélie, although my body doesn't quite measure up to the computer version.
...... Read the rest of this Article >>It seems like a milestone every day, today I gave Amélie her first bath. As I'm going to be taking her swimming I thought it would be a good idea for me to get her used to water, also Clare had a checkered past when it came to kids bath time.
By Dad
It wasn't long ago that Clare and I lived in a flat near London Bridge. Starting a family was the last thing on our minds back then! While bathing Amélie I was reminded of an occasion when her nieces came to visit us about 4 years ago. We had been on the London Underground, to Buckingham Palace, and topped the day off at Madame Tussauds. The kids were in our bath, and I was horsing around with them.
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