age to teach your baby to swim?

[Stevie]

how old can your baby be when you start teaching it to swim, or more, start taking it into the pool.
I cant swim and im not even a big fan of swimming pools, i just like to get in to cool off, but i grew up in vic and swimming wasnt that big of a deal.
But since we're in qld and theres never a bad time fo year to swim, i want my baby to love being in water and know how to swim.
TIA ladies

[feeb]

It depends on the centre you go to what age they need to be to start lessons.

Where I take DS they start from 6 months.

[Butterfly Child]

I just booked DD into swimming lesson and they said they like them to be no younger than 6months, so we just got in as DD is just 6months.
Not sure if that includes them being aloud into the pool or not HTH
xx

[Lolli]

AustSwim recommend 6 months because that's roughly when they learn regulate their own body tempreture, so they don't get a chill (or so I've heard)...

[Stevie]

thanks ladies
i will def check with my closest swim school (or whatever they are lol)

[thepixie]

My DD started at four months! But it does depend on the swim school.

[Nai]

We started taking both DD's to the pool from 3 months but they started lessons at 6 months.