Infant Survival Swimming

Ok so my son is almost 8 months old. My husband and I are having our wedding ceremony in Mexico with all our family and friends this summer. I want my son to be familiar with the water so I was thinking about enrolling him in swimming classes. I found this program. ISR (Infant Swimming Resource). Its a survival tactic they teach your children. Only its going to be about 700.00 to do this with my son. The program last about 2 months. Check it out
http://www.infantswim.com/home.html

Do you think its worth it?
Ok the instructor just e-mailed me the cost. Its 105.00 registration fee. Then its 90.00 per week. I guess I got the info wrong I thought some where it said 2 months worth of classes. I guess its only a 4 week class. Thats means the total cost is going to be 465.00.
The classes would be 5 days a week. I am thinking about doing it just because its a survival class.

He will be taught to hold his breath then rotate from a face-down position in the water to a back float. My son will be taught to rest and breathe on his back until help arrives.

It would be useful information for him. In Mexico with him around the pool all day, you never know what might happen.

i think its a good thing to teach ur baby, but like the first answerer mentioned, maybe at a local ymca or something they might offer a class for cheaper, maybe they teach the same things or not, but either way, i def think its a great idea, i wouldnt mind paying that amount if it meant that my child could survive in case the worse happens.

2008-03-18 14:35:11 by Jayden's Mom

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The first time, my question never showed up and the second time I only got 2 answers (BTW thanks Organic Mom). So here I go again...

Have you heard of teaching your baby the Infant Swimming Resource? It a survival float taught to infants. I have seen it on tv before and they are offering lessons in my area. What do you think of this? http://www.infantswim.com/home.html
My daughter has been "swimming" all summer. We have a pool and my husband would take her in all the time. I did as well. He has dunked her under several times by blowing in her face and she has held her breath. I understand about not being able to handle that, beacause I had to turn my head almost everytime because I was nervous. My niece was taught and is now a great lil swimmer at 2 years old. I believe the earlier the better and educating ouselves and our children.

I didnt see your question at all before. But I most definitely have answers for you....

Yup! I've heard of it. Where I am, we teach it buttttt we begin with a few other things first. Well I don't teach it because my certifications ran out while I was pregnant last year but my sister still teaches it. She starts out with teaching Parent/Toddler swim lessons, even though there are children in the class as young as 6 months. She doesnt do it before six months. You have to teach the baby to hold their breath when they go underwater though or you will have a problem on your hand. How we usually start that at 6 months is you are in the water with your baby, face to face and they have a grip on both index fingers of both hands. Next, you blow in their face and let go. When you blow in their face they automatically shut their eyes real quick and hold their breath. Its a natural reaction. Then you let go and they bob under the water and come back up.

My suggestion, is that if you dont think that you can handle that (my mom said she tried to do it with my sister and I but it made her too nervous. I have had moms take their child right out of our program due to that making them too nervous) then you should not do the lessons. I'm not trying to be harsh but sometimes it does make the parent too nervous, seeing this. But we always require that the parent be present during the lesson and participate as well. It might be a little different with the ISR on that part though.

However, if you think you can do all that...I reccommend it with everything I've got! It is very important to me that my son learn how to swim and I plan on starting it as soon as its warm enough to be in the water (I wanted to start at 6 months, but don't have a membership to the Y and I live in NY so we obviously go through winter). I think you should do it. Its great that your infant know how to swim, with anything that can happen near a pool in the summer or even in a bathtub! I mean, obviously you will still need to watch your child near a pool in the summertime but it will ease your mind to know if he does fall in, he knows what to do and how to swim/keep afloat.

Good Luck!!


ETA: I didn't mean to come accross as rude if I did when I asked if you would be able to handle it. I just know that I've seen mothers who have had no problem and then other mothers who actually would get mad at me. Not saying you would get mad but to be all honest, I dont even know if I would be able to do it yet. From the sounds of it, if the baby did that good over the summer I would DEFINITELY go with the ISR.

2008-11-03 06:41:55 by baby girl is expecting #2

Price: $30.00

Okay So back before we became "civilized" How did humans raise there children? (infants mainly) 4 ie: how long did humans breastfeed babies when was food intruded, did we learn to walk earlier, and did we naturally have the ability to swim ? (like most animals) How long were children raised before they were though to be able to fend for themselves. and so and so if you Have any info or extra info I would love to hear it. Having children of my own now just always has me wondering I mean I have taken classes in biology and other sciences but never touched on subjects of this nature just border subjects.

the answer to most of these is "more or less the same way great apes do today"

or were you refering to modern man-technology?

as in like 50,000-100,000 years ago?


breastfeeding would probably have gone up untill teething, if not before that. pre-chewed food would have been given to infants to get them to know what foods are good to eat

walking would have been a necessity, been done ASAP

apes generally cannot naturally swim, it took us untill about the 1800's to really get a grasp of it...

children were probably raised to about age 9-10 before they took on full responsibility and maybe 16-17 when they started their own families independant of their parents


though these are just my speculations

2009-02-23 17:43:01 by just me