Infant swim classes teach babies self-rescue
Drowning is the third leading cause of death among children younger than one, and two thirds of those cases happen between May and August.
That’s why some parents are turning to swimming lessons when their children are infants. Babies as young as six months are taught to survive in water by learning how to float.
Programs like Infant Aquatics in Temecula, or Infant Swimming Resource in Cathedral City, give young children the skills to save themselves if they accidentally fall in the pool or other body of water.
“Things happen. You blink. You’re distracted. You didn’t realize that the gate was open,” describes Dena Blum-Rothman, a certified Infant Aquatics instructor from Milford, CT. “We’re really rewarding the tiniest approximation of something correct and they start realizing, ‘Oh she liked when I did that.’ All of a sudden in a few weeks you’ve got a swimmer.”
Courses usually last between four and eight weeks, every weekday for just ten minutes a day, and average about $90 per week.
For more information about self rescue swimming in the Coachella Valley, visit www.isrpalmsprings.com call 818-602-9134 or email d.heil@infantswim.com
In the Temecula area, visit http://www.infantaquatics.com/
