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AIBU?

To think you don't need to check the temperature of the baby pool to take your 10 month old swimming

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sausagesandwich34 · 03/02/2013 15:15

Surely at a public baths the water is warm enough for a crawling/walking baby

The is an nct group of about 7 families having a massive discussion about it and one of them has just asked if they can use their own thermometer to check the water, not trusting the displayed temperature

Pfb much?

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thebody · 03/02/2013 19:47

Oh for fucks sake!! Mine day in rock pools on a welsh beach!

Some people are just plain insane.. Mind you it is an NCT group so it will be the lunch menu nest and baby sushi!

Couldn't make it up.

Pigsmummy · 03/02/2013 19:43

RugBugs we have a whale thermometer, I am tempted to take it swimming with us, just for the craic!

CauDyGeg · 03/02/2013 19:43

Oh my

We were plunged in to icy council pools as kids, and we turned out ok

@ sparkling

kerala · 03/02/2013 19:34

I would have said YANBU but took my 4 year old to a swimming lesson recently and the boiler had broken and the kids pool was really cold. They hadnt bothered to tell anyone when they sold the swimming pool tickets though . Would not have been ok for a baby my robust 4 year old was just about ok but it wasnt great.

CatsRule · 03/02/2013 18:29

I think most pools are too cold for me nevermind ds who is 11 months.

The last time we went swimming he was blue and I kept having to go out to put him under the shower.

Then again, ds does like his baths hot...the thermometer goes mad!

I've only found one pool that is warm enough for him and me

He is my pfb

Bogeyface · 03/02/2013 18:24

Wear the babies out so that they sleep through the meal?!

Pissing myself laughing at that alone, never mind the temp thing! I would love to be a fly on the wall for that particular event :o

socharlotte · 03/02/2013 18:13

Sometimes public swimming pools are really cold.Too cold for me to be stood about holding atot, let alone for the baby!

PeppermintCreams · 03/02/2013 16:37

Ha ha ha. I'm sure someone on the Wacky Toddler Group Parents thread mentioned a parent who tested the swimming pool water with a bath thermometer.

I hope they've booked a table for 21 so there's enough space for the "sleeping" babies.

Erimentha · 03/02/2013 15:45

OMG I think I would wet myself laughing if I was at the swimming pool and someone came in with a thermometer to test the temp. DD2 was terrible for feeling the cold when swimming so if I anticipated that the water was going to be cold I would just put more layers on her. Swim nappy, happy nappy, shortie costume, shortie wetsuit. Surely they will have already paid to go swimming to be able to get to the water to test the temp? What would they do if they felt it was too cold? I'd love to here the conversation as they tried to convince whoever was on the main desk that they needed to be let through to test the water temp with their own thermometer before paying to go swimming

RugBugs · 03/02/2013 15:42

Our bath thermometer is a yellow duck with a forehead type strip along the side.
I now have a vision of mums floating such a thing in a pool and trying to read the temp!

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 03/02/2013 15:42

My local swimming pool hasn't managed to design a poolside with non-slip tiles, despite having had about a decade to plan and get it right. The changing rooms are crap too.

Fairylea · 03/02/2013 15:41

How about a test tube to take a water sample to test for diseases etc too ?? :)

CaseyShraeger · 03/02/2013 15:41

Some public pools are pretty cold. But you don't need a thermometer; use a neoprene wrap with the baby and get out when he's clearly feeling too cold. If that's after about 5 minutes, don't use that pool again.

Sparklingbrook · 03/02/2013 15:39

I think an elbow or a toe would have done. or was this before anyone got their costumes on?

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 03/02/2013 15:38

Well, I wouldn't go as far as taking a thermometer, and I think nothing bad is likely to happen from a slightly cold pool, but I've been in baby pools that were a bit cold, especially since you aren't moving a round an awful lot, just jigging a baby.

ladyintheradiator · 03/02/2013 15:35

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Cherriesarelovely · 03/02/2013 15:33

Pfb indeed....however, my mum used to take Dd swimming when she was little and had to stop because the baby pool was unavailable and the big pool was so cold Dd was turning blue! Made her water phobic for about 3 months!!!!

BooksandaCuppa · 03/02/2013 15:33

My ds would go blue and have an asthma attack if the water in a swimming pool was not generously heated (until about age 8).

But I wouldn't need a thermometer to tell whether that was likely to happen or not. Just my elbow.

ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 03/02/2013 15:33

Hahahahahahaha. Ouch. I just fell off the sofa laughing.

One of the mums at my Water Babies class did this (he rest of us did this: ) although in her defence Water Babies did say the pool was over 30 degrees and it didn't bloody feel like it was!

Adamit · 03/02/2013 15:32

hop into pool and starting maiking monkey noises while gasping "hot hot hot".

janey68 · 03/02/2013 15:31

Oh god they sound like a nightmare. Avoid.

Sparklingbrook · 03/02/2013 15:29

OMG sausage I pity the poor food emporium they may descend on.

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sausagesandwich34 · 03/02/2013 15:27

There are 7 of them because they are having a meet up, wearing the babies out and then going for a meal and no I'm not that nosey, they are just very loud and performance parenting

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Sparklingbrook · 03/02/2013 15:26

Boil a few kettles edwin. how do they manage at the seaside?

edwinbear · 03/02/2013 15:25

I wonder what they expected to be done if the temperature wasn't right?

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