Were you ever this cute?

[ChrisGreaves]

Swimming babies: underwater photographs of babies learning how to swim
P.S. Just watch some cretin this thread.

[HansV]

I was a lot cuter, but I don't think I swam underwater as a baby...

[HansV]

P.S. Just watch some cretin this thread.

Hey - how did you know that I was going to post a reply?

[Deb G.]

These pictures are gorgeous!

When my now 25 year old daughter was about 6 months old, we enrolled her in baby swimming classes - mostly to see if this would alleviate the fear of water that my older child had.

It was very interesting to watch - we were instructed to gently blow in baby's face (which caused the baby to sharply inhale) and then dunk her underwater and let her go. As the mum, I had a bit of a hard time with that part so I had to give that chore over to my braver husband. But amazingly, she just floated around for a few seconds before being brought to the surface and wasn't the least bit upset.

I can't say the end result is that she became an olympic swimmer, but she never showed any fear of water during future swimming lessons.

[ChrisGreaves]

Hey - how did you know that I was going to post a reply?

My mistake.
My Apologies.
I got a bit fuddled over lunch and confused the leaver-of-breadcrumbs with croutons.
There's no knead to get crusty ....

[HansV]

Did you have no-knead bread with your lunch?

[ChrisGreaves]

These pictures are gorgeous!

I agree. I also feel that they represent, perhaps, only 1% of the photos taken - they will be the creme de la creme, so to speak.
None the less, my interest in all creatures as survivors, by definition, is heightened by the dramatic shots.
To quote Richard Dawkins: "All organisms that have ever lived - every animal and plant, all bacteria and all fungi, every creeping thing, and all readers of these words - can look back at their ancestors and make the following proud claim: Not a single one of our ancestors died in infancy.", and these photos help to back up that statement in a dramatic fashion.

[ChrisGreaves]

Did you have no-knead bread with your lunch?

Let's see, I mixed up some dough yeasterday, so today I must (ugh!) have.

P.S. I'm rather having fun inserting URLs where none were given ...

[jonwallace]

...I also feel that they represent, perhaps, only 1% of the photos taken - they will be the creme de la creme, ...

I'm sure you don't mean "the survivors"...

Oh, wait you mean the ones that float to the top...

[ChrisGreaves]

I'm sure you don't mean "the survivors"... Oh, wait you mean the ones that float to the top...

Now then! .....