percy had her first swimming class today!
sorry no photos, class was at 10:30am so paul couldn't attend and i had enough to do without drowning a camera.
i think she quite enjoyed it. we sang songs, floated, chased toys, rode 'noodles' (those long floating tube thingos), practised moving along the edge of the pool holding on with our hands and sang more songs. her lips were a tiny bit blue by the end of the half hour. i wrapped her up, dried her off and redressed her as fast as i could. she didn't protest at all. in fact she was all wide eyed and quite smiley for nearly the whole time. carol, our instructor, also praised me for how i was holding and handling her. so pats on the back for mama!
once home i tried to feed her some baby rice cereal. i think she may have swallowed four spoon-tip-fuls wihout protesting. which is better than previously. persist? god it's draining tho!
still no luck with sucking a bottle either. back to good old boobies.
we'll judge next week whether we have a new ian thorpe on our hands. i think one class is a little too early to tell; two is fine! her elder cousin is supposed to be quite a good swimmer so perhaps it's in her genes?
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Oh man, I'm jealous. I want to take Rose swimming! Did you get any fancy swimming trunks? What about nappies - do you have any cloth nappies for swimming?
Anyway, sorry to hear you've had a rough couple of days. Been there, done that, bought the tshirt, as they say. Maybe you should give Tresillian a call? They managed to turn around a couple of non-sleepers in the mums group.
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