taking 2 children - is this feasible?

[harpsichordcarrier]

dd1 wants to go swimming today (she is 2.5 and fairly sensible). I had a notion to take her and dd2 (6 weeks) and have dd2 by the side of the pool in her car seat watching us. DD1 does need quite a bit of supervision in the pool although we generally just splash around in a shallow beachy area. we don't usually stay long.
is this going to work or am I being a loon?

Some pools don't let you leave a child on the edge in a car seat so check before you go. Used to do this with DS2 for DS1s swimming lessons though (private pool) so there's no reason it shouldn't work. Also used to do it with DS1 for aqua aerobics! There were 6 babies lined up on the poolside in car seats Again, a private pool though.

If you do this make sure that you strip DD2 down to her vest because you don't realise how hot it is on the side of a pool. We were allowed to do this at the parent and child session at our local baths and I did it occasionally with DD but she was not impressed so ended up coming in with us from the point where she could hold her head up fairly well. However some of the Mums had their children in car seats right up until 6 months or so. A lot of them were lulled by the echoy noise I think.

Dingdong - I thought it was one to one under 4 and then 2 to 1 under 8. Still a bit of an issue if you have 1, 3 and 5 yos, mind you. At ours they rope off the shallow end and call it a learner area and you are allowed to take two into the parent and child sessions which I did for about a year until DS started school.

Yes check with the pool before you go - they are usually pretty shirty about more than one child per adult - bummer if you have twins.

I think it could be fine, tho it could be bloody hard work....and have never seen a car seat in the pool area of our pool (not to say it's not permitted tho).

no they do let you take two children under four because I have taken two toddlers before which was hairy I can tell you.
i was really thinking about whether the baby would get the hump and whether they were likely to let me take the car seat in

the pool doesn't have a website! very annoying
will have to phone then [sigh]
ta

[MT I like your name but surely it should be dingdingmalorytowerscalling?]

Yes I said it should be dingdongmtcalling as well. Why isn't it, MT?

yes that would have been droll
it always makes me smile when people reply to you as DingDong
no punctuation!
hmm it's like Stalinist Russia isn't it
let's have a revolution
give us punctuation marks or ..... we'll be really cross!

did you franny? yes, we're right. it's much funnier isn't it?
well done us

franny look! we are a Girl Gang!
don;t mess with us
we're 'ard
who shall we bully next

Yay! You know we're right, we always are

you won't regret it MT it's FUNNIER OK
me and franny know these things

Well we could think of a new non-Christmas name for me next...

Oh, yes, sorry, silly me

franny you only just had a new name
and by the way we were talking about whether dd2 would be happy in her car seat in a sweltering pool.

Pish - I cannot concern myself with such trivia as your daughter's well-being. This is FrannyNet is it not?

ok, new name new name....
LentilWeaver?

Ok, but no-one will know it's me. (Does anyone know who I am, anyway?)

did someone say something?
i'm sure I heard someone say something...
frannythelentilweaver then