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About Julie-ann James | Swimming with Babies
tribute to Rachel, photo of her son EthanOverview Swimming with Babies and Julie-ann James
Julie-ann James is one of the UK 's leading baby and toddler swimming consultants. She has been teaching this age group to swim for over 20 years and is responsible for introducing the Aquababies "swimming with babies" and "swimming lessons for toddlers" programs to the UK. Aquakiddies/Babies is expanding rapidly and new regions include Whiltshire and Dublin. The Aquababies (Swimming with Babies) brand has been steadily growing globally and is now in China, Australia, Poland, Barcelona, Indonesia where baby swimming lessons are considered beneficial to baby health and development.
Julie-ann James and Parent and Baby Aqua (PABA)
Always innovating, Julie-ann has just developed a revolutionary new aqua based fitness and baby development product for parents with their babies called Parent and Baby Aqua (PABA).
Julie-ann is personally involved in the training of all new Aquababies teachers and is a course tutor for the STA (Swimming Teachers association). She still teaches swimming with babies classes. Additionally she helps private clients for one-to-one swimming with babies instruction. Satisfied customers of Julie-ann's baby swimming lessons include Thierry Henri, Tony Blair, Jack Dee, Ruby Wax , Pat Cash and Robin Van Persie
Huggies Baby Swimming Lessons & Ante Natal Swimming Lessons
Julie-ann James was chosen to be the Ambassador of Huggies, where she traveled around the UK teaching Baby Swimming and Ante Natal swimming lessons.
Julie-ann's whole life has been devoted to teaching babies and young children to swim and her knowledge is constantly evolving through swimming with babies and teaching babies to swim.
"The best part of my job and swimming with babies is experiencing first-hand the joy both parents and children get from the baby swimming lessons, especially watching the children taking their first relaxed breath in the water. I have found my true vocation and I feel a real sense of satisfaction in teaching parents the right way to teach their children baby swimming lessons", she comments.
Julie-ann James Swimming Affiliations & Qualifications
Julie-ann is an Australian who has been living in the UK for the last 20 years. Her life has always revolved around the water and she realised very early on that she had a natural affinity with children. She feels fortunate to be able to combine the two when swimming with babies.
She was a competitive swimmer at national level when she was younger and is qualified with the ASA and STA (Swimming Teachers Association) in the UK and Aus Swim, Royal Life Saving Society and Royal Surf Life Saving Society in Australia.