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2012-02-28T18:23:00.000Z

So many toys to play with.

Coming to get ya

its great when everyone listens

All look at the camera now.

I'm surfing mum

U can do this too its easy

hey look at me I'm swimming

Bab y swim article from Irish Times August 2008

2012-02-27T20:45:00.000Z

Irish Times Tuesday 5^th August
Baby swimming

Mary Kenny uses a doll to give instructions to mothers with their babies at her baby swimming class at Leisureland, Salthill, Galway with, from left: Haizi and her daughter Yike Cai, Mary Geoghegan and her son Sean, Brid Keane and her son Fionn Ennis and Emer Slancova and her daughter Jana..
There is a debate as to whether babies younger than one year should be taken to the swimming pool, writes Fiona Tyrrell

BABY JANA joined an infant swimming class when she was five months old. Now, after just four sessions playing "splish splash", "float on my back", and "baby surfing" she is kicking around the pool with a nonchalant look on her face that says "ya, I'm a pro".Giving her child a natural introduction to water before she developed a fear of it was the main reason for joining the classes, says her mother, Emer Slancová.
"I am not a swimmer and my oldest child, who is a very good swimmer now, didn't start until she was five and we had to work hard to help her overcome fear of the water even at that age," she says.Mother and baby have been attending weekly classes at Leisureland pool in Galway, and Jana enjoys them so much that Emer says she now understands the words "swimming" and gets excited when she sees her swimsuit.
"Swimming is therapeutic and is a great aerobic sport. I wanted to give her those opportunities from the start. It is also a lovely way to build trust between parent and child," she says.When it comes to swimming, it is a case of "the earlier the better", according to Charlotte Parker, director of education and development with Swim Ireland, the governing body of swimming in Ireland.She encourages parents to bring babies to swimming pools, as soon as it is safe to go into the water which, she says, is from four months on.
The benefits of infant swimming are numerous, according to Parker - exercise for both parent and child, parent-child bonding and socialisation, not to mention water safety skills and the life-long physical, social and psychological payback that swimming offers.
The programme uses games and nursery rhymes to help children feel safe, comfortable and confident in the water at a very early age, according to Parker. "Like playgroup but in water," is how Lucy McDonald describes her baby and parent classes at the National Aquatic Centre in Blanchardstown in Dublin.
Kicking, splashing and encouraging a child to get wet are the main features of any baby swimming class, says McDonald, who has been giving baby swimming classes since 2003. She encourages babies to blow bubbles and get parents to wash the babies' faces, dip their ears and sprinkle water on their noses.When children have advanced, she will do jumping exercises which involve children jumping into their parent's arms, or even into the pool. Songs such as "splash mammy" or "humpty dumpty falls" accompany the exercises.
"Children naturally don't like putting their faces in water because they don't feel in control and will automatically breath water up their nose. One of the aims of the classes is to help children feel confident so that they will automatically breath out rather than in when their face is under water."Many parents come to the class with the misconception that a child can swim under water, but this natural reflex is lost within a couple weeks of birth, she adds.
Attaining water safety skills is a big motivation for parents looking for baby swimming classes, according to Galway-based teacher Mary Kenny."The idea is if a child ever fell into water they would not panic and would know how to make their way up to the surface," she says.
Mary Kenny runs a four-week programme at Leisureland pool in Salthill, which covers floating, playing with toys in the water, submerging and baby body surfing using kick boards.The aim is to foster water confidence, promote bonding and have fun, she says.
Mary Kenny also runs baby massage courses in Galway and says that while her massage courses are solely attended by mothers and babies, dads are increasingly common at swimming classes.There are conflicting opinions on when it is appropriate for babies to be brought into a swimming pool. Mary Kenny takes babies as early as six weeks, but prefers to take babies after their first round of vaccinations.Swim

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recommends four months on, while others say after the first birthday is the appropriate time to get into the pool.
Swimming in a pool would be much more enjoyable for all concerned when a child has the verbal skills to interact and respond to the experience, she says. She points to the fact that until children are physiologically and anatomically able to lie flat in a pool they won't be able to learn formal skills.
Responding to links made by one study between asthma among children and swimming pools, she points out that most babies and children spend very limited amounts of time in the actual pool environment.She does voice what she terms "gentle concerns" about formal baby swimming classes, saying that they are just another barrier between parent-child bonding.
"What they do is put another person between the child and the experience, someone who is interpreting the child's experience for them," she says.
Parent and baby will have a much richer experience by splashing around themselves, she says.
• Galway Baby Swim 087-964 1246 or see www.edenmassagegalway.com
© 2008 The Irish Times

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2012-02-18T11:49:00.000Z

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Baby Massage & Baby swim feb 2012

2012-02-18T11:47:00.000Z

HI
spring is here and time to join baby swim so everyone will be ready for the summer holidays

Baby swim - Ocean fitness Salthill hotel friday at 11.00
suitable for babies from 12 weeks .All baby needs is swim nappy and a uv suit.

Baby Massage busy bees oranmore monday at 10.30
Thursday 12.00 Knocknacarra Church.

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2011-12-04T22:24:00.000Z

Hi
Merry Christmas to you and your little ones. It will be a different Christmas for you this year . full of joy and happy little ones.

Baby swim will start on 20th Jan 2012 friday in Ocean fitness Salthill hotel.

Baby massage & Baby swim gift vouchers available - a gift for life.

Thanks Mary

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2011-12-04T22:16:00.000Z

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2011-10-27T12:20:00.001+01:00

Hi
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Baby swim Friday 4th Nov at 10.30 am & 11.00 for new babies .
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KNOCKNACARRA CHURCH TUESDAY 8TH NOV @ 3PM

ORANMORE BUSY BEES MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER @ 10.30
HOME VISITS AVAILABLE.
THANKS MARY

BABY MASSAGE & SWIM OCTOBER

2011-09-28T11:26:00.000+01:00

Hi

Baby massage oranmore
Busy bees Monday 26th sept at 10.30

Knocknacarra Church Oct 4th @ 2.30
Private Sessions available.

Baby swim 7th oct friday Ocean fitness Salthill hotel
10.30 . 11.00 for new babies to baby swim

Thanks Mary

Baby massage & Baby swim Sept 2011

2011-08-24T18:06:00.000+01:00

Hi I will be away volunteering in a orphanage in Moldova Eastern Europe for sept . Baby Massage Classes will start on Monday 26th Sept @ 10.30 Busy bees Oranmore

Tuesday 27th sept @ 3pm Knocknacarra Church

Baby swim will start 7th Oct at 10.30 for babies who have completed the four weeks
11.00 for all our new little ones

The best way to contact me is by text while i am away 087 9641246

Thanks Mary

Baby Massage Ireland Am

2011-08-05T23:34:00.000+01:00

Hi

Ireland Am Tv3 had a lovely feature on baby massage on wednesday 3rd August Check it out .

Thanks Mary

Baby Massage & Baby swim August 2011

2011-08-05T23:25:00.000+01:00

Hi Mums & Dads

Baby massage is available in Knocknacarra Church on Tuesday @ 3pm

Oranmore Busy bees Monday at 10.30..

Baby swim

Ocean fitness Salthill Hotel Friday Morning at 11.00

I will away for the first two weeks in sept as I am volunteering in a orphanage in Moldova Eastern Europe,

Baby Massage & Baby swim will start the last week in sept/ first week in oct..

Thanks Mary

Baby swim start fun @ home.

2011-05-20T16:34:00.000+01:00

Bath Time

Allow time for fun before & after washing .

Support babies head and shoulders .

Be prepared to get wet.

Learn a nursery song -- This is the splash our hands
kick our legs .

This little things increase your babies and yours confidence for baby swim session.

check us out on our new facebook page baby swim galway

and we have a new logo with two beautiful sea horses

thanks mary

Baby massage

2011-05-20T16:26:00.000+01:00

Hi Mums & Dads

Baby massage is booking up for the summer . Baby massage is available in Knocknacarra Church @ 11.15 Thursday

Monday @ 10.30 Busy bees oranmore .
Booking essential.

If u have a group of friends who are interested in doing baby massage at home . I can travel to u .

Thanks Mary.

baby & Toddler swim

2011-05-10T16:48:00.000+01:00

Hi
Had a great day at the bump and beyond fair in galway .loads of little babies and mums & dads to be .

Baby swim is available in Ocean fitness salthill hotel
Friday at 10.30 am
Saturday at 10.00

Toddler swim at 10.30 saturdays

Thanks Mary

free toddler swim session

2011-04-14T14:53:00.000+01:00

Free toddler swim Saturday morning 16th april at 10.30 in Ocean fitness salthill hotel .
Booking essential

Contact Mary Kenny 087 9641246
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Baby Massage

2011-04-06T18:01:00.000+01:00

Classes on Monday at 10.30 busy Bees oranmore .
Classes on Thurday 11.15 knocknacarra Church

5 week course ..

Thanks Mary
tel 087 9641246

baby swim

2011-04-06T17:54:00.000+01:00

yes it was april fools day for our the start of our new baby swim group .All our new babies did great loads of fun .
Our older babies did some amazing under water swimming .
It is a great day cmon and join us on friday mornings in ocean fitness salthill hotel .

Thanks Mary

Baby swim

2011-03-11T15:29:00.001Z

New Class for babies & parents

April 1th @ 11.00 Ocean fitness salthill

4 week course

Send 20 euro desposit to Mary Kenny

Baily point physiotherapy Salthill.
Tel 087 9641246.

Booking now being taken April Baby massage in Oranmore & knocknacarra

2011-02-03T17:25:00.001Z

Baby Massage 5 week course starting

Oranmore Busy Bees Monday 28/2/11 @ 10.30

Knocknacarra Church Thursday 24/02/11 @ 11.15

>Baby swim 4 week course

Friday 18/02/11 @ 11.00 Ocean fitness Salthill Hotel

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