DD is 3 months and I just found a free swim program for 2-6 mo old babies!
Also anything I need to be mindful about if I decide to take her?
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I put E in a kiddie pool at 3 months and she thought it was awesome!
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Five months. She had a lot of fun! I think the only trip up is the smallest size swim diaper we found was huge. She's still fitting the same size at 18 months.
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Just watch for any skin reactions to chlorine. My pedi recommended we wait till 6 months for swim classes at a public pool just bc of the chemicals in the pool and germs from everyone else. Obviously a home pool/kiddie pool wouldn't have these issues
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Not till 14/15m because she was born in late April and we didn't want her in a public chlorine pool till after 6m. So she went into our pool the next summer.
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I think he was about 2 months old. He loved it! And swim diaper sizing is crazy. He has worn the same "12 month" swim diaper from about 6 months to 2 years and it's just now getting a bit small!
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We took him to FL when he was 4 months and he swam in a pool on that trip. My ped said it was fine, just obviously don't spend a ton of time in the chlorine and rinse it off after. She said the bigger concern was sun exposure and to make sure to keep him covered as much as possible.
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We took her to Cuba when she was 6 months old, and started swim 'lessons' at 7 months. She absolutely LOVED it.
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I don't remember exactly, but I want to say less than 6 months. He loves bath time so the pool was just a HUGE bath tub! It took me a few minutes to get comfortable with all the extra water, but once he was, he had a blast.
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We started swim classes with DS when he was 8 months. He's 2.5 now and doing the best of all the kids in his swim class! I think we will probably start DD right around 6-7 months.
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We had a kiddie pool in our back yard the first summer after he was born, he was around six months? He loved it. The first time in a pool with us, he was 8.5 months. We started swimming lessons at 13.5 months!
He's def a water baby and is in swim classes with just the instructor at 2!
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@mrsjyw: Did you make the kiddie pool water warm like bath water warm?
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I just called me ped and he said they recommend to wait till 6 mo too. But part of me just wants to sign her up already! It'd be something fun to do while we wait for summer..
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We started at 3 months. She loves it!
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She didn't go in the pool until we took our first family vacation to Mexico. She was 17 months.
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@BandDmommy: Is there anything you have to be cautious about? Like the pool water getting into her eyes/mouth? Rinsing off her private parts after?
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Dd was 6 months and she loved it! I didn't take her any earlier because it was dead of winter and would have made her too cold.
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@snowjewelz: my son started lessons T same time and never had any issues. Where we take lessons, there is special pool just for babies that's warm.
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DD just went in our friend's pool at 3 months
we're off to Bali tomorrow for a week and we'll try her in the pool at our villa there.
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He started swim lessons at 3 months.
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I'm VERY tempted to put her in my mom's pool!!!! I LOVE the idea of a kiddo pool!!!! A small one could even fit in back porch or house
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@BandDmommy: Sounds soooo fun
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@Trufflehunter: jeaaaalouuuss! Enjoy!!!
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@FaithFertility: you totally should!
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@snowjewelz
that's so good you found a free swim program. Definitely make the most of that!
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Dd didn't go til 15 months! I'd say the swim program will probably tell you everything you need to know and younger definitely would have been better in our case!
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We tried it when LO was 9 months. The hardest part was getting us both clean & dry afterwards because she couldn't stand on her own yet, so I had to hold her while I showered and I couldn't actually get very clean.
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Both my boys started swim classes by 10 weeks (our school is free until 6 months) We have a local swim school with heated indoor pools and special filtration system so it uses lower chlorine levels to my understanding. The teachers were great about helping us out and working with the babies on tummy time activities in the pool and making us comfortable with them.
Now at almost 1 and 3 both of my boys can climb out of the pool, both have been going under since they were 6 months, and if anything have too much confidence in the water. Bathtime is super easy since I just pour water over their heads to rinse, it's never been a fight.
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We took E to a public pool when she was 10 weeks but she hated it! It was an indoor "heated" pool but it wasn't heated very much and she cried when she hit the cold water! I then took her when she was 6 months so the local disabled sports centre - they have a properly heated pool (think: bathwater warm!) and she loved that!! We've been there a few times now. I took her back to the first pool again when she was 14 months and, again, she still hated it!!
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@sunny: That's a good point... Unless we just suck it up and just dry off and then rush home to shower!
we're off to Bali tomorrow for a week and we'll try her in the pool at our villa there.
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