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[quote=Anonymous]I read a book called Teach Your Baby to Swim when my daughter was an infant.  Using the techniques in the book I started teaching her at 6 months in a heated indoor pool in the winter.  By summer she was swimming like a fish.  I could jump off the diving board and go to the bottom of the deep end holding her and she would hold her breath and come up laughing.  She swam underwater easily and often had her mouth open but did not swallow water.

At two she often went off the diving board by herself and swam to the ladder and climbed out.  There was a period between one and two where we had to watch her like a hawk because she loved to jump in and swim around but couldn't always get herself out.  Once she learned how to climb out on the side she was safer.  We still watched her at all times.

I tried to help other family members teach their young kids to swim but by the time they were three or more it was much harder.  The kids would resist, protest, not cooperate and the parents would give up.[/quote]

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