Baby Swimming Lessons
Making Magic, Memories, and Milestones!
✔ Four FREE Baby Swim lessons!
✔ Incredible results, fast!
✔ Giving you and baby confidence.
✔ Small classes — no more than six babies.
✔ Available from 3 to 10 months.
✔ Solid foundation for infant classes.
Baby Swimming Lessons, Kotara, Newcastle
Creating memories and milestones, FinS’ FREE baby swimming lessons are fun, safe, and filled with giggles!
Running every month, our four-week introductory water familiarisation program introduces your little one to:
✔ Being comfortable in the water.
✔ Movement in water.
✔ Back floating.
✔ Aquatic coordination.
✔ Submersion.
✔ Additional cognitive development.
✔ Familiarity with water on their face and in their ears.
✔ Becoming confident water babies!
Our safety-first Baby Swim classes are designed for young children aged 3 to 10 months. Under the direction of our experienced, patient, and reassuring instructors, you and your tiny tot will enjoy awesome aquatic adventures together!
And, with no more than six babies in a group, twenty-minute lesson times to keep bubba’s attention, and building a solid foundation for future infant swimming lessons — FinS FREE swimming lessons for babies are a priceless experience, for bub and parent alike!
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The Lifelong Importance of Baby Swimming
Humans aren’t designed to swim, that’s why we have legs and arms instead of fins and a tail. It’s an activity that needs to be learned, developed, and nurtured.
However, babies are born with two inherent gifts that allow them to be comfortable in the water almost immediately — an amphibian reflex and a mammalian (bradycardic) dive reflex.
The amphibian reflex instinctively encourages the child to flex their arms and knees in coordination with their hips while in the water — giving the impression of swimming. The mammalian dive reflex allows a young baby to be submerged without swallowing water — their breathing stops, while oxygen is preferentially diverted to the brain and heart.
Humans aren’t designed to swim, that’s why we have legs and arms instead of fins and a tail. It’s an activity that needs to be learned, developed, and nurtured.
However, babies are born with two inherent gifts that allow them to be comfortable in the water almost immediately — an amphibian reflex and a mammalian (bradycardic) dive reflex.
The amphibian reflex instinctively encourages the child to flex their arms and knees in coordination with their hips while in the water — giving the impression of swimming. The mammalian dive reflex allows a young baby to be submerged without swallowing water — their breathing stops, while oxygen is preferentially diverted to the brain and heart.
Both of these intrinsic abilities are naturally massive advantages in learning to swim. The issue is, that at around 10 months old, humans lose these valuable responses.
Our baby swimming classes — available for babies from 3 to 10 months — turn these soon-lost automatic actions into learned skills. For life.
Toddlers, teens, and adults who learn how to swim as babies show greater water confidence, have a much more coordinated aquatic movement, and are comfortable blowing bubbles into the water.
The Incredible Benefits of Swimming Classes for Babies
At FinS Swim School, our free swimming lessons for babies are much more than water skill and confidence development for your little one. Our fun and informative classes also provide the additional advantages of:
✔Heightening the bond between you and your baby.
✔Giving you the confidence to be in the water with your little one.
✔Discovering how to enter and leave the water with your bub.
✔Boosting baby’s muscle growth.
✔Improving baby’s balance.
✔Increasing your child’s mental development.
✔Improving baby’s motor skills and coordination.
FinS Swim School for Your Baby Swimming Classes — Our Difference
Introducing your baby to swimming develops skills, confidence, and muscle memory that last a lifetime! And, it’s incredible fun for you and the little one!
Creating a solid foundation for infant swimming lessons, our free baby courses — under the instruction of our patient and encouraging instructors — boost health, coordination, and mental development.
✔ Our four-week Baby Swim program is FREE!
✔ Proven track record — over 40 years of experience.
✔ Heated and chlorine-free pool — safe on baby’s delicate skin, hair, and eyes.
✔ Certified, experienced, and child protection-checked instructors.
✔ Pleasingly small six-baby maximum groups.
✔ Focus on fun for both baby and parent!
Swimming Lesson for Babies at a Glance
When Can We Start?
Our baby swimming lessons are run every four weeks — except in January, June, and July.
How Old?
Your little one can start baby swimming classes at any time between the ages of 3 and 10 months.
What Do We Need?
- One parent/guardian per child in the pool at all times.
- Baby needs a swimmer’s nappy covered by snug-fitting elasticised swimwear.
- Parents wear normal swimmers and a T-shirt is preferred.
- Towels for you and baby.
Swimming School for Babies FAQs
What Age Can Babies Start Swimming Lessons?
As long as your baby is aged between 3 to 10 months, you and your little one can join our free swimming classes.
What Qualifications Do Your Teachers Have?
For our teachers to be given their own classes, they must have an AUSTSWIM or Royal Life certificate. Our swim class baby instructors are experienced in dealing with young ones — and their parents!
All our staff undergo pre-employment and child protection checks along with a full induction into our teaching processes, and customer service expectations.
Does FinS Swim School Provide Newborn Swimming Lessons?
Your baby can start our amazing and free swimming lessons once they reach 3 months.
Are Swimming Lessons for 3 Month Old Baby Dangerous?
No. Babies love the water!
At FinS Swim School, you and your little one will be expertly monitored throughout the lesson by one of our knowledgeable and certified instructors. Small groups — no more than six babies — mean targeted and close attention at all times.
When Can Babies Start Infant Swimming Lessons?
Our infant classes start at 3 months old and continue until the age of 3 years. The free Baby Swim classes provide a solid foundation for entry into the infant programs.
When Can a Baby Get in a Pool On Their Own?
All of our baby and infant swimming classes require a parent or guardian to be in the water with their little one at all times. They are never allowed in the pool on their own.
Are Swimming Lessons for 6 Month Old Free?
Yes! At FinS Swim School we offer a free four-week Baby Swim program — for little cuties aged between 3 to 10 months.
When Can Babies Swim Unassisted?
Babies can often swim, of sorts, unaided at around one year old. However, basic stroke abilities aren’t usually developed until about 4 years of age.
When Can I Take My Baby Swimming in the Ocean?
Most medical specialists suggest waiting until six months until you take your baby into the sea — allowing time for their immune system to develop. However, you can take your baby into our sanitised and chlorine-free pool from three months old.
Why Choose FinS Swim School?
Free Infant Classes – Baby Swim
Offered every month, our FREE baby swimming classes provide a fun, giggle-packed four-week course that builds early years water confidence.
Swimmer’s Assessment
Our free, 10-minute assessment ensures your child joins the most suitable program for effective and rapid results.
Safety Week
Offered once a term, our Safety Week is an invaluable program that could one day save your child’s or another’s life.
Pool and Water Quality
Our medical-grade pool water is sterilised using modern UV light and ozone — with no unpleasant chlorine.
Holiday Programs
An intensive, five-day/one-week course that rapidly builds new swimmer skills, or improves more advanced swimmers’ techniques.
Unique Approach
Focusing on constant staff improvement, instructor training, and an emphasis on pool time — we deliver unsurpassed teaching, standards, and results.