My husband and I are very interested in introducing our LO to swimming since he is so much into water, playing with/in/around it AND we have 2 close friends whose kids drowned
. So, even if we always keep and eye on him around water, we feel it's necessary to take him to this "baby swim" lessons, for his safety.
Thing is, as long as he's with me in the pool, he's as happy as can be but as soon as I leave him with the instructor he cries a lot. Sometimes he cries for the whole 30min., sometimes just a little bit when we separate.
I feel awful as you can imagine, but I try to convince myself it's for his own good.
I'm always very positive about swimming, I tell him where we're going, what's going to happen, encourage him and hug him a lot when he's done. The instructor is all good and playful and patient.
A lady at the pool told me my LO is too young. Another one told me she stopped her girl's lessons because she cried a lot.
I guess I just need some reassurance that I'm not traumatizing him or breaking our confidence bond by doing this
.