Summer Safety – Swimmers Giveaway

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A few months ago when I was looking for a local pool with an infant swim class I came across the Infant Swimming Resource. The the video on their website just amazed me. They teach infants as young as six months old to be able to roll from stomach to back in the water fully clothed! They’ve had a lot of news coverage including a King5 news story from November 2007 from my local area (link no longer available). They don’t hide the fact that the babies are going to cry.

Her little-known program focuses on a child’s ability to self-rescue. Through repetition, instructors teach infants to roll on their backs and float – eventually calling out for help. Success requires resolve. Class is five days a week and there are lots of tears.

“Crying is their primary means of communication,” Patterson said.

Even though Sami seems decidedly unhappy, his parents say he’s making clear progress.

“You just want to have him as prepared as possible, so you’re willing to live with having him cry – he cries all the time anyway, so it’s okay,” said Marwan Dalle, Sami’s father.

Patterson says, because the training utilizes gross motor skills, the lessons are lasting.

“They’re going to retain it, the way they’re going to retain the ability to crawl or walk,” she said.

I know I couldn’t sit through the tears, but I think this class is a great idea. If I had a pool or water front property I think I would find a way to power through a class like that for Sophia, but since I don’t, I’ll settle for gently getting her comfortable in the water and watching her like a hawk!

I love the water and regardless of whether or not you choose to go through a self-rescue class with your infant or toddler I think it’s important to get them comfortable in the water for future swimming classes. The ability to swim is a great skill to have, so in the spirit of water safety I’m hosting a Huggies Little Swimmers Giveaway!

I am giving away TWO Huggies Little Swimmers fun in the sun kits*. Each kit includes a pack of Huggies Little Swimmers disposable swim diapers (I have one pack size medium and one pack size large), Moisturizing sunscreen lotion (SPF 50), Mild sunscreen clear mist (SPF 50), Sun sensors (stickers that monitor UVB exposure by changing color), 4-ounce bottle of bubbles, a little bucket for playing in the sand, and a mini sand farming implement (rake or shovel).
Huggies Little Swimmers Giveaway packs

Anyone can enter, but fellow bloggers will have an advantage. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post. That’s it. Just leave a comment on THIS POST and you’ll be entered once**. Bloggers, write a post on your blog about summer safety whether it’s sun safety or water safety – it can be a tragic story, cautionary tale, or tips and guidelines – and link back to THIS POST you will get TWO entries***. The total number of entries allowed for a person is TWO****.

Please indicate in your comment/post which size you prefer for the swim diapers (medium or large). The deadline for comments and posts is June 19th, 2008 at 7pm Pacific time. I’ll write all the email addresses/urls on a pieces of paper and have Kurt draw two out of a hat.

*Only one prize (kit) per household.
**Multiple comments do not increase odds of winning. Only one entry is granted for commenting regardless of the number of comments left by an individual.
***Multiple posts do not increase odds. Only two entries are granted per blogger for linking to this post regardless of the number of posts or links left.
****Combination of leaving a comment and linking to this post will result in two entries. Total possible number of entries is two. Two being the total number of entries, three entries is right out!
*****This is the last of the fine print, really, I promise :P

Oh and if you happen to have any first hand experience with the Infant Swimming Resource classes let me know how they went and if you would do it again.

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Daily Infant Report

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“Hi there! It’s very good to see Sophia again. She had an okay day. She didn’t drink much of the bottle at 12:00. She made a beautiful art project for father’s day.”

It’s nice that she’s doing better and made it through daycare. Although they sent her home looing like Pebbles.
Pebbles Flintstone

I snapped a picture of her with me sneer too…that\'s my sneer baby
No, wait. It’s better than that. THIS is MY sneer…That\'s my sneer girl

She is almost over her cold. It just doesn’t sound like it. She has a terrible cough that keeps her up at night. Keeps me up too. :( I write this while wondering if there really are any benefits to milk baths. Yep, I got another one. My little faithful fountain blew again. She coughs so hard after eating sometimes that she erupts. She’s so miserable. I want my smiling, giggling little baby back.

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Robeez and Flowers

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Today I received two things in the mail. One was a new pair of Robeez shoes for Sophia.
two pairs of Robeez shoes that Sophia outgrew
The monkey and sunflower Robeez shoes are the ones she outgrew. Her sunflower shoes were her main pair. They match just about everything. The monkey shoes I couldn’t resist cause they’re just so damn cute. The peace shoes, which are HUGE on her are the new ones. I got them cause they aren’t pink and the blue is very close to her favorite Peep blue color and the orange in the middle is my favorite color.

The other thing I got in the mail today is a “convertible wristlet” which is a small clutch/handbag. It’s also called a Zippy Zipper Wristlet by Simple Sweet Cakes, the Etsy Shop from which I purchased my wristlet. It’s awesome! I love it. I’m not a purse person, but I didn’t want to carry stuff in my pockets through the summer. I like to go without a jacket on the hotter days and it’s uncomfortable to carry a cellphone in my jeans. This is the perfect small not-a-purse answer for me. I can wrap the strap around the stroller or fish it through my pant loops like a hip pack. I had mine custom made with an exterior zipper pocket for change and two interior pockets to separate my cellphone and business/store cards from the rest of the junk in my not-a-purse. The fabric I chose is called Turquoise Fleur. I thought it might be a little loud for me, but it’s not. I love it. It reminds me of tiles one might find in a Spanish kitchen. And the colors, Peep blue and Orange :)
Convertible Wristlet from simplesweetcakesSide zipper of convertible wristletInside pockets of my zippy zipper convertible wristlet
Yes, that is a nasal aspirator keeping it propped up. No, I don’t keep it in my not-a-purse, but as of lately I probably should!

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Little Milk Fountain

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Last night Sophia’s fever spiked to 102. We called a 24hr nurse line. Kurt made the call and I was nursing Sophia at the time. He gave a little info and then hung up. What the? “They’ll call back.” In between that time Sophia finished nursing and promptly threw up everything she just ate all over me. Ever had a milk bath?…In your own milk?

The nurse called back and basically said not to treat the low 100.4 fever (oops) but to go ahead and give Sophia another dose of Tylenol because it had been seven hours since the last dose and she was now at 102. She gave us some tips on how to make Sophia a little more comfortable, like how to clear her nose with saline, and I guess a little humidifier is next on our things to purchase for baby list.

She threw up on me one more time last night. I had to change her and myself one more time and then try to sleep knowing I had baby puke all over my stomach and legs. ACK!

This morning I noticed another tooth on the little nipple gnasher. This one is on top. That’s probably what caused the low grade fever all day yesterday. Oh and that “pink eye” was gone the next day. That doctor was an idiot. Whoever heard of pink eye clearing up in a day? I was right, her sinuses were just backed up. Stupid doctor.

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Sick Baby

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Last night Sophia had a fever of 100.4. I gave her Tylenol which she promptly spit out. I don’t know if she spit it all out or if she actually got some in so I didn’t do another dose. An hour later I was still awake so I took her temperature again. Same temp. :( This morning she still had the same temperature. So far I’ve given her two doses of Tylenol and she has had two naps – both under twenty minutes. I don’t think I’ve taken a temperature under or over 100.4 today. She is working on her third nap and I’m debating on weather I should shower or try and get some sleep. Most likely I’ll keep debating with myself and neither will get done.

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Daily Infant Report

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The last Daily Infant Report was from the 28th of May when Sophia gave herself a fat lip when she flopped forward while sitting on the floor at daycare. I love getting these so much that I need to record them all in my blog, so here goes…

Thursday May 29th, “Hi there, Sophia had a great day. She really enjoyed playing with our musical interments. She played a lot with our puppet doll hair.” They had a bunch of musical tubes. Each made a different sound when hit against each other, great fun for any infant/toddler.

I have Fridays off, but I took Sophia to daycare on the 30th anyway. I was hoping to get somethings done around the house *ahem* anyway here’s the infant report from Friday, “Hi there! Sophia had a very good day. *Name of other care giver* put all the baby dolls around her and she just loved. She kept touching the doll’s eyes and mouth and laughing at them.” After I picked Sophia up from daycare we went to a friend’s house and stayed WAY past Sophia’s bedtime. She did awesome though and we slept in on Saturday. Sunday was good…until bedtime.

Monday June 2nd, “Hi there, Sophia had a great day! I could tell she was tired but she was in a good mood for most of the time. She painted with paint brush today.” She told me that Sophia didn’t want to get her hands dirty by finger painting. She kept looking at the icky paint on her hands with a sneer, so they tried giving her a paint brush. She just dabbed the paper with it.
Sophia\'s second masterpiece

Tuesday I didn’t take Sophia in. That’s the morning she woke up with her eyes glued shut with snot. Wednesday she looked fine in the morning. She was still sick but wasn’t acting lethargic and didn’t have a fever. At one in the afternoon I got a call from daycare. She had a fever of 102.8 and she had woke up from a nap with her eyes crusted over again. “Hi there Sophia wasn’t feeling so well. We hope she feels better.” I took her to the doctor and she now has drops for pink eye.

I still think the discharge is just he sinuses being overly backed up, but I’m giving her the drops anyway. Sophia’s regular doctor was out and the doctor that saw us didn’t even look at Sophia’s face before telling me that it was in fact pink eye. One of Sophia’s eye lids was puffy and it was red in the corner where the green snot was coming out, but that was it. Every child I’ve ever seen with pink eye had pink skin around the whole eye and it was oozing white puss, not green snot. So my highly contagious child couldn’t go to daycare. On the upside, while the doctor examined Sophia’s ears it upset her so much she screamed and protested with her mouth open so that I could see the little tooth on the bottom that finally broke through the gums.

Today she was ok for most of the day, but when daddy got home from his nine day motorcycle trip Sophia threw up on him. Serves him right for not being here for the five hour Sunday night crying session. I should have got that on video for him. Make him listen to it on headphones – turned way up…for the whole five hours. I’m not bitter. No I’m not. Shut up.

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Snot Face

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Sunday night was hell as you can see by my teething post, although it didn’t start that way. After eating some lunch, she played with her toys. I didn’t get all of her lunch off her face. Damnit. Then she stood around for a bit. She did a few push-ups (not really). When dinnertime came around, I let her have her own spoon which she promptly used to gag herself. I attempted to feed her sweet potatoes and rice cereal, but it looks as if I actually painted the baby with them. I think she would have received more nutritionally if I had just skipped her mouth and fed her ears. Afterwards she needed a bath.

Playing with toysStanding aroundDoing some girly push-upsDoing more girly push-upsLike totally gagging herself with a spoonSweet potato and rice fashion statement Wearing her dinner like no one else canNeeded a bath after dinner!

At six thirty, I sent the darling to bed. I thought she went to sleep. At seven, it sounded like she was stirring. By seven fifteen, it was hard to ignore the “stirring”. I lost count of how many times I picked her up and rocked her to sleep, just to have her wake up again when I lay her in the crib. I even tried to put her in her swing because I learned in one of the many mom class things that I went to, that when it is teething time, laying her on her back can cause more pressure in the ears. That was a no-go! I’m sure it wasn’t a bellyache because I didn’t hear any tummy rumblings. When it was finally over there was no belching or fart before or after the calm. She merely screamed and cried for FIVE HOURS! I tried Baby Orajel, which I had praised in the past, but that did NOTHING. Tylenol didn’t do anything either. Both of those companies can KISS MY ASS!! *Except when I may need to administer Tylenol to reduce a fever, other than that, fucking useless! Here is what she looked like three hours into the crying serenade with two hours to go…
Teething

She did fine at daycare on Monday, though she took three long naps instead of two. I arrived there to pick her up just after her third nap. They were about to call me because she woke up with snot in one eye and they thought it might be pink eye. This morning she looked like this…
Snot face extraordinaire

See that stuff in her eyes?…it’s snot. Not snot rubbed into the eyes, but sinuses so backed up snot is coming out the eyes! Kurt has been calling her the human petree dish. I call her Snot Face.

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Directer of homeland Addams Family

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Someone in the IRC room I hang out in posted a link to a huge picture of the directer of homeland security that took FOREVER to display even though I have “high speed” internet. I clicked on it because everyone was talking about how creepy he looks and I’m a sucker for, well, just about anything. My reaction was, “OHMYGOD it’s Lurch!” Then someone else said, “He’s creepy and he’s Kookie, mysterious and spookie, He’s altogether ookie…The directer of homeland security *snap snap*” I just had to blog about it and here we are. No better off really. But seriously, doesn’t Michael Chertoff look like good ‘ol Lurch (Ted Cassidy) from Addams Family?

Chertoff - Lurch from Addams Family?

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