I remember swimming lessons with my kids. Unlike my fellow NCT mummies who dunked their new-borns into deep water as they returned quickly to pre-birth shape with some nifty aqua-aerobics, I avoided both baby dunking and mummy shrinking.
This complete failure on my part left me terrified whenever we approached any body of water upwards of a deep puddle. The new-borns bobbed up alright and quite remarkably seemed to know instinctively what to do in water, but by the age of seven, fear had ebbed away at that instinctive trust mine had and it required building up.
