Swimming with Gemma

Violet and I went to our very first baby swim class today at Children of the Sea in Beaverton. Nicole and Gemma are in the class with us. It was great to see them and I am super excited to get to hang out with them every week!

This class was Nicole and I, our babies, and another girl and her baby, Ryder. I guess there are 2 other Mom's with babies in the class, but they both didn't come today.
The class went well. She got to float around in warm water on her back and front (with me holding on to her), she went down a little slide (with the instructor holding on to her) into my arms, and got to sit and then fall off of a water gym and the pool wall. She also WENT UNDER WATER FOR HER FIRST TIME. I was terrified to have her go underwater! Nicole and I said at the beginning of the class that we weren't ready for it and that we would do it next week, but we saw Ryder do it and he did fine, so we decided to have Gemma and Violet do it too. They both did well. Gemma got a little water in her mouth and Violet had her eyes open, but neither cried or got upset after.
Nicole and I are not a big fan of our teacher. She was young, a little stand-offish, and I am pretty sure she has never had a baby. Part way through the class Violet got a little overwhelmed, so I went to sit on the side of the pool to breastfeed her to calm her down and make her feel safe. The teacher acted a little irritated and told me that I should be careful because if she spits up they will have to close the pool. ??? OK, geez... soooorrrry. Feeding my baby during the lesson is not going to make her any more likely to spit up during the lesson then if I had fed her before or an hour ago. She also didn't seem to be very understanding when Nicole was trying to tell her that Gemma's "adjusted age" was 4.5 months. Oh well, not a big deal. We have lots of classes left at this place and maybe the teacher will warm up, but either way we had already planned to go somewhere else in June, Swimbabes. It is much closer to us (in NE Portland) and a lot of my friends from the pregnancy water aerobics class will be there. We just couldn't go to that one yet because Violet has to be 6 mo old to go there.
Overall, we enjoyed the class and hanging out with our friends! We can't wait until next week!