what to put on 12 week old to go swimming????

[crumpet]

i am planning on taking DD, 12weeks, to the pool to start getting her used to the water.

im going to try and get her into lessons but until then i thought i might just take her for a dip as such...

now ive looked at swimmer nappies and they start at 7kg, DD is only 5kg, 5.5 at the most.

is it ok to take her in, in just a nappy and singlet??

she has boardies that ill put over her nappy but i just wondered if its ok to leave her nappy on?

thanks!

[grub17]

you can buy non disposable nappies as well. I have a mother ease swimming nappy for ds and it fits his long skinny body really well. maybe try one of those. a normal nappy will become saturated and very very heavy pretty quick so probably not hte most comfortable.

[Antheia]

I wouldn't put just a normal nappy on. It'll blow up lol. Being full of liquid and all..

You can get cloth swim nappies. They are reusable. Google Mother-Ease swimming nappy. Their size small goes from 4.5kg.

[black_rose]

Yeah a normal nappy will be way to heavy for a 12 weeker. Kmart have $10 swim nappies and I think Coles do too.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

nah a normal nappy wont work. As Grub said, they just get very very full and heavy and will proably just fall off and wont do much for holding in poo lol. Also as Grub said, you can buy cloth ones. I got DD's first one from Kmart for about $5 (though that was 2 years go) and it was size 000. You can get very little bathers, you just have to look around. Even try Ebay. A singlet and boardies would do ofcourse, I just dont know how happy she will be being in a wet singlet (just speaking from personal experience).

[crumpet]

thank you ill have a look at them now!

[Olive]

id use a disposable swim nappy (7kg will fit) but put a cloth one over the top, double protection at that age! if she doesnt poo in the disposible swim nappy then just wash it with regualr clothes, they last aggggges!

[MrsBexie]

lol, I took my DD swimming at 5 weeks in a normal huggies nappy. It did swell up but it was fine and she pooed while wearing it but it didn't leak in the water at all.
Other girls in my BB group have done the same and it was fine.

DD was too small for any of the swimming nappies and we didn't have time to wait for a non sposie one to be posted to us, but now I would prob buy her one cause we don't use huggies anymore and I can't see her new nappies holding poo if we went swimming...

[Freya]

Crumpet, reusable swim pants are a fabulous idea. I have a pair here that were used for Ds3 back when he was a newbie. Theyll fit under 7kgs. PM your address and I'll pop them in the post for you. Its just sitting in his wardrobe going to waste

[aussienic]

I used to use the disp swim pants.. and even though they were a little big to start with they were fine..

[crumpet]

wow thank you all for ur responses!!!

freya thats so nice of you, ill PM you now

[Freya]

Just a FYI regarding the disp swim nappies. My school has a reusable swim nappy only policy. Its because those disp nappies leak small fibres into the water once they are soaked and it clogs up pool filters and can even be breathed into lungs. Very dangerous.

I totally understand the pain in the butt of having to buy several different sizes of reusable swim nappies only to have them use them for a few months then grow up a size, so its my pleasure to pass on my pair to you crumpet, no thanks or anything needed

[KalinaJane]

I used the swim nappies for my dd even though they were too big for her, I just put her bathers over the top and they held the nappy on. I have some bathers if you're interested.

[wysiwyg]

Most pools (all the ones round here have specific notices) will not let you use a normal disposable nappy (disposable swim nappies ok) because the gel that is in them comes out and clogs up all the filters - people might do it and not get caught but I know they do cause difficulties for pools - which I can completely understand after putting a disposable nappy through the washing machine - it makes a completely horrible sticky mess. We had reusable swim pants (had some 0-6 months which fitted from around 12 weeks) but did also use Huggies swim pants at 12 weeks without any problems.