the Baby Spa Journey

Welcome to our new ‘Baby Spa Journey’ that has been developed from nearly 60 years of experience and designed to ensure through regular weekly attendance, your baby has a comfortable and seamless passage to swimming independently, and safely for life.

The journey begins from birth with Stage 1 continuing to Stage 2  and Stage 3 during regular weekly sessions which correspond with your baby’s different stages of development.  Developmental benefits derived from each stage result in baby’s joyful enjoyment of water, enhanced development from increased opportunity to move, and tactile stimulation from both water and baby massage.

Graduating from Stage 3 your baby will be happy, confident and capable of motoric control in water and well prepared with a solid foundation ready for the progression to swimming lessons, and their ‘Swim to Learn’  journey.

 

Stage 1

Newborn to 8 weeks

Safe to start before the first set of immunisations, your baby is carefully monitored as they enjoy a float session in a specially-designed individual floatation pod.  This weekly session is then followed by neonatal massage with organic grape seed oil.

Please allow one hour for each session.

 

Stage 2

8 weeks to 5 months

Following on from Stage one, Stage 2 weekly float sessions takes place in a hydrotherapy pool and can be with one or two other babies.  More space allows for more active movement, play and socialising.  The session is then followed by neonatal massage with organic grape seed oil.

Please allow one hour for each session

Stage 3

5 months onwards

Following on from Stage 2, our Stage 3 sessions now invite parents to enjoy active participation weekly with their baby in the pool to learn fundamental swimming skills and begin the journey to your baby’s complete independence in water through confident and fun swimming.

Please allow one hour for each weekly session which ends with baby massage. Like Stages 1 & 2, Stage 3 sessions are ongoing to encourage continuity allowing your baby to swim with ease and self-assurance.

“Thank you so much for giving us this wonderful opportunity of having Arna experience something so new and yet so innate and instinctive to all babies! The hydrotherapy at your Baby Spa is one of our favourite activities. Cannot wait to bring her next week.”

— Shipra A., Pyschologist