Baby Aquatics: Dad Takes His Day Old Baby Swimming To Build His Water Confidence

At 31 hours, 46 minutes, newly born Phoenix Charles Elwell is youngest child ever to be enrolled as a Water Baby.

According to the Daily Mail, his 31-year-old father, Simon, an instructor for the Water Babies swim school, dunked his new-born son in the hydrotherapy pool at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon. There, he introduced him to the joys of baby aquatics – the first step in building on what turned out to be Phoenix’s remarkable confidence in the water.

The Water Babies swim school teaches more than 41,000 babies a week and has franchises across the UK and Ireland. Before Phoenix is 30 months old, he is likely to be swimming distances underwater for as long as he can hold his breath, and propelling himself along the surface as his strength increases.

Why?

‘The question for me is “why not?”, said Simon. He and his wife Rebecca, 33, have already brought up their 19-month-old daughter Alyana not to fear the water – and fully expect her to have a new swimming partner soon.

His Dad says this is the first step in building on what turned out to be Phoenix’s remarkable confidence in the water.

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Swimming is a necessary life skill everyone should acquire. Children who are introduced to the pool early have little or no fear for water thus building their water confidence and could learn how to swim at an early age.