Water Babies Leicester Sports Coaching

About Water Babies Leicester

What is Water Babies?

• Water Babies is the world’s largest baby swim school, teaching more than 23,000 babies
each week through a growing network of family businesses across the UK, Ireland and
Sydney, Australia.

• Having fun and enjoying the water is our primary aim – we never want our Water Babies to
actually feel like they’re in a lesson. Most will happily be swimming distances underwater by
about 30 months, then naturally start swimming on the surface as their strength increases.

• In the last three years, Water Babies has won four national awards: Best Swimming Class,
Best National Baby Development Activity and Best National Baby & Toddler Development
Activity with What’s On 4 Little Ones, and Best Children’s Activity with Tommy’s.

• Babies have natural reflexes that mean they instinctively hold their breath when submerged.
However, the Water Babies course actually teaches babies to control their breathing instead
of relying on reflexes, thus negating the risk of water inhalation and giving the babies a sense
of being fully in control.


Why take your baby swimming?
• Swimming from birth with your baby is a truly delightful experience. It’s a very special time
when you’re able to focus purely on each other, enjoying the real sense of closeness that
playing in warm water creates.

• Babies love being in water – so have great fun learning potentially life-saving skills.
And learning to respond to simple instructions is fantastic for their mental development.

• Weekly exercise is great for them physically too; especially as healthy children are more likely
to grow into healthy adults. And it’s a brilliant way of making new friends at a time when, as a
new parent, you can sometimes feel quite isolated.

Why Choose Us?
The core points of difference between Water Babies classes and mainstream baby swimming lessons are:

• We teach babies from birth. Two days was our youngest client, but normally they start at
around six weeks.

• The course is highly structured, including clear progression, aims and objectives and a
detailed lesson plan for each of the 40 weeks.

• We teach without the use of flotation devices. This is in order to prevent children developing a
false sense of security and because the water naturally supports their body weight.

• Children lack the strength or co-ordination to swim on the surface until at least two years.
From birth we enable them to swim short distances underneath, allowing them to move freely
without constraints of gravity.

• Being totally happy underwater creates a complete sense of confidence when on the surface.

• In the last two years alone, our classes have saved at least eight children from drowning.

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