I’ve had my daughter in a Mommy-and-Me swim class for the past few months. She’s about 9 months old now and she’s not shy about letting me know when it’s time to nurse. I constantly have to keep her from grabbing my boobs and pulling down my top while we’re in the pool. Well, one time she was successful. She pulled down my top, exposing my breast, and I dang near drowned my own child trying to cover back up. I don’t think any of the other moms or kids saw me, but I can’t speak for the people who walk outside and peep through the window at all the cute, swimming babies (the swim school is in a shopping center). Good times.

Since my son is just one year old and we didn’t really go to the pool last summer, we don’t have any embarrassing child/pool stories yet and I’m not looking to collect any :). I really want to try reusable swim diapers because throwing out the disposable ones makes me cringe!

Wow, Denise has it rough. We haven’t gone to the pool yet, although my hubs will be sure to coax me into it this summer (in the midwest its still considered too cold for a few more weeks) so baby can get used to the water. Having a swim diaper will make it easy as pie!

Shouted out the give-away on my blog:

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I blogged!

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Okay, an embarrassing moment in a pool with a child….I haven’t had one since we haven’t taken my daughter into a pool yet. She’s only 5 months old. Does doodling in her bath count? :-) I have to say, my friends’ kids have all been very well behaved.

So wish I had a funny story to share about pool time. My daughter (almost 5) and son (almost 2) love being in the pool, and with all the time we spend there I’m sure at some point we’ll have some kind of story to tell.

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My son is only 14 months so we didn’t really take him to the pool much last year. So no embarassing experiences to report… yet!

Posted about the contest on my blog!

http://josuesierra.net/family/2009/05/reusable-swim-diapers/

My baby is turning six months old for the summer, so I guess I have embarrassing moments to look forward to. Grandma can’t wait to get her into a pool!

This is our first summer with our son, so we don’t have any embarrassing stories with him yet. I have plenty of embarrassing stories of pool experiences as a child though!

None yet with my daughter (3 1/2 yrs) since she’s always been in swim diapers in previous years, but this year being potty trained might be a different story!

Yeah! I didn’t even know there were swim diapers!! I am new to CD. I hope I win, I really hate taking those huggies soggy swim diapers off!! Anyways, my baby is 7 months old and I just started swimming with him a month ago, so no embarrassing moments yet!! :)
Thanks,
Becca

I’m like most of the folks who’ve already replied–no embarrassing stories because of our little one–but it’s a little like Denise’s. I was skipping driver’s ed in high school to sun bathe with friends. In our small town, we weren’t hard to find and my male teacher came to the pool looking for me. Wouldn’t have been so bad if the bathing suit I was wearing wasn’t too small and if I hadn’t nearly lost it as he walked up. I was embarrassed then, but thinking back now, it gives me the creeps!

Well, this is my first summer having my baby (8.5 months old), but I’m sure there will be lots of embarrassing stories to come.

My little boy also loves to nurse and any time he sees any part of my breast, he can’t think of anything else. We were in the pool and he pulled the little spaghetti strap part so hard that it unhooked in the back. Luckily, nothing was exposed, but we had to run to the bathroom and re-hook it quickly. Because of that, I went out and got a speedo-type suit that he can’t pull apart!

We were at a friend’s house swimming when we allowed my three-year-old (at the time) to go to the bathroom in a corner of the lawn - rather than drying her off and stripping her down inside. It was all fine, until she did the same thing at a hotel pool - oops!

No embarrassing moments with my little one (4 months) *yet* but I’ve had plenty of embarrassing swimming moments myself! A classic: the “I-shaved-my-legs-and-left-a-strip-of-hair-running-the-length-of-my-full-leg” moment. Especially if you hadn’t shaved in a while before then! =D

But I anticipate many fun moments with the wee one this summer- although, hopefully, with a swim diaper they won’t be “embarrassing” ones!

“No embarrassing moments with my little one (4 months) *yet* but I’ve had plenty of embarrassing swimming moments myself! A classic: the “I-shaved-my-legs-and-left-a-strip-of-hair-running-the-length-of-my-full-leg” moment. Especially if you hadn’t shaved in a while before then! =D

But I anticipate many fun moments with the wee one this summer- although, hopefully, with a swim diaper they won’t be “embarrassing” ones!”

And I blogged!
http://cat-e-uh.livejournal.com/68945.html

My daughter is only 9 months old and has only been swimming twice so i don’t have any memories yet!

I honestly can’t think of any…but I’ll be experiencing the pool as a VERY pregnant lady with a 2 year old and a 1 year old this year…which should make for some interesting stories!@

The only embarrassing thing I can think of happening at the pool is when my niece pulled my bathing suit down and flashed quite a few innocent bystanders! Fortunately it didn’t come all the way down, but I was sure embarrassed by it!

My then-two-year-old son told me he had to pee. I pulled him out of the baby pool as fast as I could, but not fast enough. He dropped his drawers and peed right on the concrete, right in front of all the other moms.

I dont have any embarassing pool stories as a mom yet, but a couple of years ago I worked at a summer camp. I dreaded swimming days! In a 2 week period we had floaters EVERY TIME we went swimming! Eww!!

I haven’t had any YET since my son is only 5 months old, but I am so excited to get to the pool this summer!

My embarrassing moment wasn’t that bad, I have to admit. I have one of those halter suits that never want to stay closed - and of course I’ve nearly flashed the other parents in the swim classes several times. My daughter (age 2) nearly gave me a heart attack when she decided to jump in to the 4 ft deep pool while I was busy trying to cover up. We all recovered fine, but needless to say, I’m in the market for a new swimsuit!

Little one is almost a year & hasn’t been to the pool yet! She did potty in her bathtub once, though…the look on her face was a combination of concern & confusion. :)

My most embarrassing pool experience? I was helping out a group of school-age special needs kids who were all about their bodies and the water - I’ll leave it at that. It’s a good thing we had enough adults to help out that day!

After swim lessons, I always change my son right on the public patio so he doesn’t have to sit in the soggy suit for the drive home. I guess now that he’s 5 years old, I can’t do that anymore. Otherwise, HE will have an embarrassing story to tell! My 4 month old son can’t wait to go swimming with his big brother this summer!

We just came back from an amazing trip to Jamaica. It was our first time traveling with Gavin (10 months) and his first time in the ocean. A friend gave us a pack of Little Swimmers that they hadn’t used so we thought we were set. So one lovely day we’re hanging out in the ocean, when my mom points to a piece of orange substance floating in the water. We then notice several more particles of all different shapes and sizes surrounding us. The area around us cleared quite quickly as people realized that they were swimming in my son’s feces! Awkward!

Well mine wouldn’t have been fixed with a swim diaper - lol! My most embarrassing pool experience with a child was when my 3yo DD was taking swim lessons at the pool and was so bad during one of her lessons that the teacher gave her a time out! Did I mention my little monster is very strong-willed?!

Ha….love reading all the stories! Fortunately, even though we are in a mom and me swim class, we have no embarrassing stories to share! Here’s hoping we can keep it that way!

My youngest daughter had a horrible
dirty diaper while swimming at Wet and Wild, far from the restrooms. My sister in
law acted very calm (like this happens all
the time). Years later she admits how
awful it was. I’ll be more careful with
my 18 month old grand-daughter who loves to swim in the community pool. Swim
diaper will be on her this summer.

Does a child in the womb count? When I was pregnant with my first born, I utterly refused to buy maternity clothes. I was seven months pregnant and my husband and I decided to go swimming at the closest park pool. Since the swimming suit (one piece) would not fit me anymore, I was having a hard time keeping it from coming undone. I kept pulling the straps at my neck, pulling at the clotch, pulling the straps, pulling at the crotch, until “snap”, the neck ties tore completely off the suit as I was doing a back stroke. Then from out of no where, I heard the lifeguard scream, lady, no exposing of the breasts in the water!!! Fun Times, right?

My daughter is only 5 months old so we haven’t had any embarrassing moments yet. Maybe owning some cloth swim diapers will help us avoid some.

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Swim diapers have definitely helped avoid those embarrassing moments! It has kept some bad messes contained but of course there is always the problem of removing that tight diaper without releasing the contents and making a big mess on the child - that is the more awkward time for me - where to do that and clean up when the child is already wet…

When my son was two we went to swim lessons every week and he was having a great time - he loved to swim and then one day out of nowhere he started throwing a fit and refusing to get in the water. He got over it a few weeks later but I was so embarrassed.

My daughter is 8 months old, so we haven’t had a chance to do any kiddie pool play yet. We do go to our neighbors and their daughter likes to have “swim suit tub time” and we come over for the fun sometimes. Even with 3 little girls in the tub I haven’t witnessed any embarrassing moments. A lot of cute ones though…

My daughter was just born in February so we haven’t had the opportunity to have an embarrasing moment at the pool, but I’m sure we’ll have our share! I’m excited to start baby/mommy swim classes at our local pool this summer!

I haven’t taken by girl to the pool yet. she is 5 months old and her first time will be on Monday. I am super excited. My own most embarrassing moment is loosing my top going down a water slide and my friends not telling me because they thought it was funny…it just took me a few mins to figure out what they were laughing at!

My son has been to the pool once. He wore a newborn ImseVimse (so cute and tiny!). the only “embarrassing” thing was when we held him up as the water dripped out, it looked like he was peeing. Not really embarrassing, but i’m hoping not to have any situations….

My niece Gwendolyn is going to be 7 months old in the summer and I can’t wait to get her into a kiddie pool! No embarrassing moments yet, but I sure would like to have this diaper for her when she comes to visit me this summer.

I wish I had an embarassing story to share (lol, actually, I probably shouldn’t wish that on myself! :-) but me and my 4 1/2 month old are beginning Mommy and Me swim classes on July 11. So I would love to try these fabulous reusable diapers that I’ve heard so much about!

I just posted about the giveaway on my blog! :-) http://www.girlyhomewebzine.com/our_first_baby/2009/05/swim-diaper-giveaway-on-clothdiaperblogcom-.html

Well my daughter is only 3 months but no embarassing story with her but when i was in high school my nephew who was 4 at the time yelled out at the public pool “hey sam i just peed in the pool and its warm now.” it wouldn’t bother me now but as a high schooler i was mortified.

We have not really had a lot of pool experiences with our children beyond the blow up pool in our backyard. So I don’t have any embarrassing stories to share at this point. That may change since our neighbor now has a real pool. We will see. I am hoping the weather stays really mild though since I am pregnant with my third baby due this summer. :) I love this give away.

I am very anxious to take my six month old to the pool! I want to start him out young in learning to enjoy the water and not be afraid of it.
I have been wanting to take him to swim classes or just to go for a dip but I really want my husband to be there for his first pool experience!

Looking forward to this summer filled with lots of fun pool days at the inlaws! She hasn’t yet experienced a swimming pool so our embarrassing moments are yet to happen. Would love to have the right product to “catch” any accidents though! Any way to prevent embarrassment is welcome :)

My son always sang silly songs about poop in the pool - how embarrassing! The swim diaper is so cute.

My little girl is also too young to have any bad stories since she is just three months old. We’re lucky enough to have a stream fed pool in the area so I can take her “swimming” this summer but I think I have to go with a cloth swim diaper as I have yet to see anyone make a disposable in her size. We cloth diaper so this isn’t an issue. I just find it a bit odd. I figure infants are probably spending time in back yard kiddie pools if nothing else.

My most embarrassing moment with a child doesn’t involve my kid because she is only 9 months old! It would be when I was a “tween”ager and wearing my first bikini. I dove into the pool where all these little kindergartners were playing and when i surfaced, my top was down. Poor little kids!

I blogged about your giveaway here

I don’t have any embarrassing child/pool stories yet because I am pregnant with my first child. However I would surely need swim diaper in summer 2010!

The truth is, I don’t have a story as my son just turned 1 and we are in the process of finding some swim lessons. BUT, I the swim diapers would come in handy and I am sure to have a story or two after the summer. :)

I was at the “senior pool” in Florida (mom lives in a retirement community) with my DD. We were floating along when she decides to announce to the entire pool. I just went poo poo. Now that wasn’t so bad as it was contained until the old man swimming by stopped and announced so did I……..

I blogged
http://coconutsx2.blogspot.com/

My little one is due in Oct. but I am looking forward to next summer we I can put baby in the water.

these stories are hilarious!

my son is just 5 months old and swimming season is only beginning, so we have yet to swim. i’m dying to take him though and of course, can’t believe the price of ’sposie’ swim diapers!

even with all my years of babysitting, i have no good embarrassing pool story. really, i hope something embarrassing does happen so i can embarrass my son later in life when i tell his first girlfriend…. hehe. :)

Well, I seriously considered making up some story, but I don’t think I could top Denise’s! Anyway, I am new to cloth and love it and planning on investing on a couple swim diapers for my summer camping trips. I ‘d love to build my stash this way!

Our embarrassing moment happened in a ‘fountain’ area, not really a pool. We were at Disney back in Dec and didn’t have a swim diaper, so we just left my son in his PF and cover. He was sitting close to one of the fountains and my oldest daughter came over and said “Mom, I think bubby pooped” as I look down to see yellow water draining from his diaper. Sure enough…..luckily there weren’t any children around him, but a few of the parents did see!

We don’t really have any ‘embarrassing’ pool stories …yet :) With two boys, I’m SURE there will be plenty!

We are looking to acquire some cloth/reusable swim diapers before heading to the pool and beach this summer! Would love to give these a try!

thanks!

Thank goodness that after 3 kids I have yet to have an embarrassing pool story, maybe this last little guy will be the one to break the streak. I can’t wait to try the swim diapers this summer!

My daughter is only four months old so don’t yet have a story. We start swim lessons at the end of June.

I don’t really have an embarrassing moment, as we haven’t taken the little guy to a pool yet.

When I was a child, around 5 years old, I did poop my swimsuit once. I don’t remember the details, however. Only that my siblings had to clean the mess!

Luckily my son has not yet had an embarrassing moment in the pool.. because he hasn’t been in the pool yet.

I do remember my nephew (4 years old at the time) pooping in a public pool at a park in New York. Everyone had to be evacuated so they could drain and clean the pool! If only I am just a little bit luckier with my little guy…

I have a direct link to this post!
http://suburbancloth.blogspot.com/2009/05/some-giveaways.html

When my son was about 2 1/2 I went to the public pool. He was having a great time on the shallow end, but the sun was getting to him. I didn’t want him wearing a huge, water logged diaper so I put him only in a pair of shorts. Other mothers had done that, and it seemed like no big deal. (he’s 16 now btw)well, this was really his first trip to the pool and the ice cream he’d eaten a couple hours before didn’t mix well with the hot sunshine (even with his SPF lotion!) and the chlorinated water that he occasionally swallowed when splashing around. He began to rub his belly, and I could swear he was turning green. Now it was a hot day and the pool had only been open about an hour and was filling up fast. But that was soon to change, lol. Before I could snatch him outta the pool he let it rip, first he power puked into the pool, and then if that wasn’t enough he decided some power poops would be fun as well. After he let it rip into the water, he suddenly felt better. Unfortunately, within 5 minutes he’d managed to shut down the pool for the day as they had to deal with filtering his deposits out of the water. I made a very quick exit, and didn’t bring him there again until he was 9!

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This is my first time on this site, after seeing the link on a friend’s blog. I haven’t had any embarrasing moments with my little tadpole princess (turning 2 in August), and we would like to keep it that way, LOL. These swim diapers sound like they will be a great addition to our travel bag!!!!

When my Daughter was 9 months old (she is 3 now) we were at our local pool, I had her in a disposible swim diaper, and she went poop, no big deal, excepet it was our last diaper. Thinking that she was done with her buissness, I put her in her bathing suit, sans diaper and we went swimming. BIG MISTAKE!!! She had diahreah SOOOO bad, it was all over her, me and the pool. It got shut down and we never went back….. I am not making the same mistake with my son (8 months old now) I am going to get a swim diaper!!!!

lol, no stories to share from my one year old yet, but check back in a few years and I’m sure I’ll have some! I would love to try these swim cloth diapers!

No super great stories to share with my 14 month old, but I’m sure we’ll have one this summer! Last summer we did get in a the pool some, but the biggest disaster was just being splashed by all the older cousins. :-)

At the time we had 2 boys and a girl. We were at a pool when my 4 year old daughter couldn’t understand why the boys got to only wear trunks and she had to wear a suit. So she, being the cleaver little girl she was, took off her suit and put on her underpants then started to strut around the pool telling all the kids there she could wear what boys wore. She wasn’t happy with the responces she got so she took off her underpants and threw them at one of the boys. All of this happened before I could get around to her with a nursing child. Life can sure come at you fast!

Okay, here it goes… DD#2 was about 1 1/2 & we were at an indoor waterpark. She was on her way down a slide when I saw a brown streak trailing behind (no pun intended! LOL) her… YES, her SPOSIE swim dipe had leaked poop all down the slide!!! I about fell over on the spot… I quickly grabbed a pool towel & casually wiped the slide down… I am pretty sure nobody else noticed, but I was mortified!!! I also used a few sposie wipes & some hand sanitizer to clean it up some more… dumb sposie swim diaper!! LOL

Our son LOVES to be in the water! We didn’t have him in the pool much last summer as he’s just 14 months old now but we took him to an indoor pool a couple of times this winter and he loved it! - and he loves bath time every night! Thankfully I have no stories to report yet though :)

It was Definitely Also FLOATIES Here as well!! She loves to do that in a public pool. So from now on, it’s sprinklers, Baby Pool, Or lake!!

Link to my blog post:
http://beautifullyfrugal.blogspot.com/2009/05/harris-teeter-weekly-e-vic-discount.html

Last year on vacation my 9mo old, who had on a disposable swim diaper, and I spent a good two hours in the pool. When we got out, I thought it would be cute to get a nudie booty shot of her standing up looking at the ocean. Well I went to take off the diaper and out the poo falls - ALL OVER THE PLACE.

I commented on my blog about this awesome giveaway!!!
http://hamfam365.blogspot.com/2009/05/swin-diaper-giveaway-from.html

We’ve had plenty of those moments!
We’ve had swimsuit top accidents~~ whoever thought strapless swimsuits were a good idea??? LOL The moment that takes the cake was when we dipped our 13 month old’s diapered bottom into the public pool by accident while trying to dip only his legs in, and the lifeguard blew the whistle. They closed the pool because of it….”health reasons”. Boy did we feel dumb! :(

Believe it or not. We haven’t had any embarrassing moments at the pool. Mainly because we don’t really go in the pool. We live in Jersey so we just go to the shore. Now you know if we ever go to a pool, something’s going to happen :)

I blogged
http://cin-cinca.blogspot.com/2009/05/another-giveaway.html

I haven’t used these yet, but they must be better than the disposible swim diapers…they don’t work at all!

OMG! The comments above are so funny! My son is only 8 weeks old, so we haven’t had any embarassing pool stories yet, but I am sure we will. I have been looking for a good swim diaper so I can get him in the water. I imagine I will soon have all of the fun experiences described in the above comments! My own personal embarasment is when I jumped in the pool and my top fell off - in front of the boys soccer team!!