At one day old, Master Phoenix Charles Elwell, all pink and wrinkly, is taking happily to the water as the youngest child ever to be enrolled as a Water Baby. He was born by caesarean section at 10.44am, a healthy 8lb 5oz. At 10.50am he got his first cuddle from his 30-year-old father Simon Elwell, dressed in a hospital gown as he held him proudly for a milestone snapshot. Next day, aged precisely 31 hours and 46 minutes, Simon swapped the gown for some trunks, then dunked his new-born son in the hydrotherapy pool at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon. There, he introduced him to the joys of baby aquatics – the first step in building on what turned out to be Phoenix’s remarkable confidence in the water.
Wow! Truly amazing!