My baby daddy took today off of work to get some more time to practice his CAD (computer aided design work) so we went swimming which Isabella looooooves!
I first took her swimming at 4 months as I heard the younger you start them the better and went with my mum and her husband whilst I was staying at their house for the week. Not only was Isabella amazingly brave and well-behaved, it tuckered her out for hours afterwards! My baby is normally a little ball of hyper, so this was amazing!
Our local pool is about 10 minutes' drive away and comprises of a smaller, warmer teaching pool and a proper, grown up pool. We were in the habit of taking her once every 3 or 4 weeks, but haven't got round to taking her for aaaaages, so a few weeks ago we decided to take her, only to discover that she had (obviously) outgrown her swimming costume so had to do a mad dash around the shops to get a new one. Unfortunately for us, the pool was actually shut that day as they were short-staffed.
We've now taken her twice in the last week and, even though it's £4.25 each and she swims for free, I'd really make it a weekly, at least fortnightly thing. Isabella is almost swimming herself already and only needs a little bit of support in the water, which is amazing considering we haven't actually taken her to any swimming lessons. I've decided not to get one of those inflatable seat-thingys because I think they make babies a little bit lazy, but when she's old enough to actually learn to swim I will be sourcing the pinkest, girliest armbands I can find!
Plus, even if you don't get a chance to do any actual swimming yourself whilst you're at the pool, just playing with your baby in the water is amazing exercise. Really fun as well! I give it a few months before she can swim better than me!
TTFN xx
Me and my gorgeous baby
Perhaps the only barefaced pic of me that will ever grace the internet
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