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Originally Posted by Shannie77  WOW!! What a little fish you have! How often do you guys go swimming? That was such a cute video! 
My DD is a couple months younger and will happily swim holding on to a noodle, and will walk in water as long as she can keep her mouth and nose out of it. She however will not make any attempts to glide etc. She also has always hated putting her face in the water. |
Thanks!
We go about three times a week right now, but that only started a couple of months ago. He has been swimming independently for about a month now. I did infant swim classes with him, but he really just wanted to wiggle in the water. I also tried a "Mommy and Me" type of class when he was about a year and a half, and he just kept trying to pry my hands off him, but he would sink when I let him go.
I ended up not bringing him to a pool for almost a year, and then when I did, he just started really going nuts. I was letting him swim while I held onto the back of his shorts to help him to stay up, and just let go little by little until he was swimming on his own.
He can swim the entire length of the pool at the Y now, but that short clip was as good as I could make it for now. I had a friend take a better video, but I haven't gotten a copy yet.
I love my little
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) He's only 13 months though so no jumping off the side for him 
