“Rae was our first teacher when we started baby swimming, and Liam was so little I wouldn’t have believed you if you had told me that a few short weeks later I’d be happy to dunk him under the water and let go! But thanks to Rae’s fantastic approach, explaining how babies are capable of much more than you would imagine and also teaching us the benefits of what we were doing and how they build together to form potentially life-saving skills, there I was, a few weeks in and happily doing so.
Rae’s classes are structured, so I always feel like we were learning something and progressing, yet so much fun for the babies. It wasn’t always plain sailing, a month or two in Liam had a bit of a wobble and cried straight through three lessons. Thinking he just wasn’t enjoying it, I was going to give up, but Rae persuaded me to keep going and suggested that rather than give up, I should bring Liam more often for a few weeks. Sure enough, after two extra visits between classes, Liam got over his cold feet and baby swimming is now one of our favourite things to do each week. One year on we are still swimming, Rae is still our teacher, and Liam still dances round excitedly each week when he has worked out that we are at the pool!
I couldn’t recommend Rae’s classes more highly. Liam’s swimming class with Rae is the one non-negotiable date in our diary every week”
