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We started swim lessons with dd at 8.5 months. They do say that you when baby's floating on his/her back he/she should either have both ears in the water or neither ear.

But we do back floating, front floating, side floating, dunking etc., and she's never had any ear issues. I do dry her ears out after swimming, just as I do after she takes a bath.

We've been doing swim lessons since 6 months and L loves it, he's never seemed to have had any sort of pain or discomfort. Well, other than when he goes from the warm pool to the cold locker room to be stripped down, that elicits screams every time! But no ear problems, and he's been dunked (he usually actually thinks the dunking is funny.)

We've been going the past few months (DS is 16 months now) and we've never had a n issue!