To wonder why kids wear sunsuits in the swimming pool?

[sequin2000]

I know it's really none of my business but I don't get it. Do people think that sunsuits act as wetsuits? I'm fairly certain that it will be colder in a clammy uv sun suit than in a regular costume so wonder why at the pool last week about 1/3 of under 5's were wearing them? Albu to ask if your child wears a sunsuit to the local pool and if so why?

Might be the only swim suit they've got?

So I don't have to buy 2 swimming costumes grown out of in months?!??

They might like it.

Because we only buy one swim/sun suit.... plus (when she wore) nappies i think they look daft under a swimsuit.

Because we only have the choice of a UV suit or wet suit. Although our local pool is freezing I have considered the wet suit

As sun protection!

They're designed for swimming in. They don't act like wetsuits though, as you say.

Dd's rash vest and shorts are 50 spf so with Cream applied aswell stops her burning.
No brainier

Their other one might be in the wash.

So they don't get burnt?!

What am I missing??

Because he has one and its a waste of money buying a seperate cossie for the pool.

Maybe they only have the one swim suit bought for a hot holiday and is reused to go to the local pool.

Same as albus, so I don't have to buy 2 swimsuits

Because DD prefers it

Because it's easier to buy one and because it's also easier to hold onto ds in a suit than naked from the waist up - he's a fish and doesn't seem to realise he ought to. One up for breath 🙄

Our pool is freezing & so I don't have to buy two.

We swim at an outdoor pool. I want to avoid lots of sun cream due to chemicals and the hassle.

Easier to wrangle a small child out of than a clingy swimsuit - open the zip and it's off! That's my excuse anyway, I didn't realise that anyone even noticed!

In an indoor pool, because it stops them rubbing their skin on floats/ side of pool etc. My ds always gets a rash on his chest if we go to the floats session - but now he's too big to enforce a rash vest!

Our local pool is indoor and outdoor so yep, on hot days they wear rash vests simply because I don't want them going out without them.

Because you need sun protection even in water.

Depending on particulate matter, it can be tens of feet deep at 70+% strength at surface. Penetration is higher in pools than in the sea.

As creams wash off, it's sensible to use UV suits in the summer months.

Op is talking about indoor pools in this country

our local teaching pool is hot and the teachers request they not wear baggy shorts or tops but kids still do for some reason. I don't understand either op!

I can understand if you have one suit but where it is separates why wear the top?

Because the DCs prefer them.

DS has one as he has eczema, he loves swimming though the chlorine water on his skin irritates him . So we were advised to slap on loads of emollient on DS then apply his wetsuit, to keep the chlorine water away from his skin as possible.

Because you can't fit a picture of a whole crocodile on a pair of trunks, that's why DS wears his instead of his trunks anyway.

Easier to hold on to the child in one and they hold the nappy on.