[tri-med] Re: [tri-family] Re: Fear Of Baths

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From: "Fawna Lockwood"
> What I ended up doing to the poor kid was sign her up for Mommy Me
> Swim Class at a very young age and made her face her fears.  I have a
> lovely picture of her as an infant floating and screaming.

Alex was initially VERY afraid of baths as well. At home I did kangaroo
bathing I guess you would call it. Again you need two adults for safety.

Try starting it in the summer months and spend a couple of days just holding
Michael skin to skin and then letting him watch you in the bath yourself.

Then when he is comfortable being naked (a lot of kids are just afraid of
being naked) take him into the big bath with you skin to skin. Some people
do it with just a little water, but I personally found this worse. Alex (and
all my kids) were more comfortable being totally in the water as opposed to
just dunking.

Then at 6 months, like Fawna, I enrolled Alex in swimming lessons for
disabled children. He screamed blue murder the first few times and
definitely went blue..... but he soon faced his fears and from then on he
became a water lover and that remains to this day - its impossible to get
him out of the water be it a bath or a pool. By 8 months Alex was floating
and able to go under the water by himself without fear.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Karen, Mum to Alex (7, T-18 mosaic)
Sydney, Australia
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