Swimming

Hiya, for mums with older children what was a good age to start swimming lessons? We did a 4 week free course at 4/5 months and would love her to do some paid for lessons at some stage just not sure when is a good time to start that will be beneficial as they’re about £14 a session! I do take her fortnightly swimming just at our local pool to keep her used to going

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I take my little one swimming every week.. it is expensive £13 for half hour!!! But our class is small and we both really enjoy it! I don’t do other regular classes so this is our one consistent big expense. I would say we do nothing that you can’t do with an instructor but as I said it’s our 1 main class xx

@Emma they’re really pricey aren’t they! The one I want to book her onto is only 6 babies in the pool so it’s a nice small class but I just don’t want to pay that much a week when I don’t tbink she will be learning a lot right now? Like you say nothing you can do without an instructor but just not sure when’s a good point for booking in for them rather than leisurely taking her! X

@Becca super expensive and yeah we are not doing much ‘swimming’ my sister is taking her boy at 3. Our leisure centre that’s when they take you without the parent in the water and more focussed the swimming xx

@Emma maybe I will book on in the new year when I’m back to work and have more funds 😂 as the one we go to at the leisure centre now is nearly £10 for both of us so maybe paying the couple pound more for a slightly more structured class will be more beneficial?!

2.5 is an age where they can start learning. My friends boy can swim and dive to grab toys on the bottom. My almost 3 year old isn’t learning as quickly as he is, but she is learning how to get out of the pool which is an important skill

We've been going since she was 12 weeks and although they don't learn to swim. They do learn to be in the water, go under, float back up, use their arms/legs, hold onto the side etc

Started from 2/3 months old with both of them. With my eldest, he’s now 3 and a bit, I took a break as he started to not enjoy it and I was back at work etc. and with hindsight I wish we had carried on really because it’s taken him a while to get back into it and have the confidence again, and he’d be a lot further along with it if we hadn’t have stopped.