Waterbabies® is unique!

Swim with us and embark on an extraordinary
journey with your baby

Our program is designed to be gentle and fun for everyone. We focus on age and stage appropriate classes for babies and encourage parents to work at their own comfortable pace.

Babies do develop differently in water! They have the potential to swim before they can walk and the researched benefits of infant swimming can be seen throughout our classes. Families are truly amazed at what their children achieve through adding the dimension of swimming into their lives. Our program creates a great foundation for all future aquatic activity.

What are the benefits for families?

For babies

• Enhances the natural love of learning
• Develops self-awareness, independence and confidence
• Strengthens the bond with their parent and promotes trust in self and others
• Stimulates the immune system
• Increases brain function
• Strengthens the respiratory system
• Stimulates the lymphatic and circulatory systems
• Develops coordination and increases muscle tone
• Often improves sleep patterns and quality of sleep
• Helps children to achieve the most out of every stage of their development

For Parents

• Assists parents to get in touch with their innate teaching wisdom for their own child
• Boosts self-confidence
• Quality time together strengthens the bond with their child
• Creates opportunity for social bonding and family support networking
• Supports parents to overcome existing anxiety or fear related to being in and around water
• Our program is proven safe, enjoyable and effective, where goals do match the outcomes. This is a great return for the investment made.
• Introductory seminar: Become informed with our inspirational and educational session for parents before starting swimming.

Safety

• Teach early acquisition of aquatic skills
• Increases awareness of the responsibility to water safety, constant supervision and CPR.
• Provides a safe aquatic environment to explore and learn in without pressure to achieve
• Helps parents to learn how to do skills and activities with their baby, not to them, in turn improving learning outcomes.