Millie's first swim!

Talking to a few Mummy friends recently I realised that Millie at 5months has not been swimming! I am sure Chester went swimming at around 4months so was feeling a bit guilty! Anyway me and a couple of other Mummys arranged to take our babies to Faversham swimming pool. It is fairly local and none of us had been there before. The other 2 babies had been swimming lots before as they both have swimming lessons. Whilst I have nothing against them having swimming lessons, I never did it with Chester so didnt want to do it with Millie.

I was a little nervous on how she would be in the pool so on Sunday I went to a local bootfair and managed to get her one of those baby swim rings for the bargain price of £1! Although this later proved to be a pointless purchase as I didnt use it at all! I mean it will prob come in handy when we go to Center Parcs but thats about it I think!

This is Millie before getting in the pool............

Yes I know she is a chunky!!!

and this is her after 40mins in the pool.........

She was so exhausted that she fell asleep before I even got to dry her!!! She is such a chilled out baby.

So clearly she loved the swim, and it was a very nice pool (even if the changing area was a bit dated). It was lovely weather and they have 3 outdoor pools which we a nice temperature so we took the babies in one of those first, Millie laughed on the way round the lazy river! We then went inside and the toddler pool was lovely, it was warm and perfect depth for us Mummies to sit and bob our babies in the water! I dunked Millie under 3 times and she came up smiling, so no doubt she will be a water baby just like her big brother.

All in all I am very pleased I took her and cant wait to go again!! But for now she will have to sit and watch Chester tomorrow in his swim lesson.