To think that swimming lessons for babies are stupidly expensive??

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I want my 5 month old DS to start swimming with his dad but am shocked at the cost of lessons! The cheapest I've found was £130 for 10 lessons.

Necessary or can we just take him for a muck about in a heated pool ourselves?

Waterbabies was the best money I spent for my DC. We all loved it and they were both swimming unaided at about 2.

We stopped at one point and tried the council run lessons, but they were absolutely shit. The pool was freezing and all they had them doing was splashing a bit of water whereas my two had been diving off the side and swimming at water babies. So we went back to water babies.

I've umm'd and ahh'd about this and I think it's the financials that I can't justify. Thanks for all your advice guys. I think we'll take him for a splash about every few weeks so that's he's used to the water and then look at lessons when he's older. What I didn't really think about was that I never had professional lessons as a kid and I'm a very confident swimmer....gonna do it the old fashioned way and teach him myself