Best age to go to baby classes

There's no right or wrong answer to this! The classes when they are babies are always more for mum to get out the house before they go crazy!! I say go, but just be prepared for your baby to be asleep the whole class 🤣

I agree the classes at this stage are more about your sanity and getting some routine back. I think we went for our first classes when my son was around 6 weeks which was baby massage and the whole sessions he either breastfed or cried and I had to carry him around but it did help me get into practice packing everything up and leaving the house and obviously got to speak a bit with other mums. I started baby sensory classes around 2 months and did really enjoy going to them. I found going for walks really good with my first at this stage for getting fresh air and not having a time to have to rush to be ready for.

Great, thank you! The walks do help but I’m so much more likely to go for them if I have a proper reason to go out, even if it’s just a tiny reason (unfortunately, just “getting out of the house” doesn’t resonate with me just yet). Might start getting all of my packages delivered to the local pickup site so I have a reason to leave the house 😆

The baby sensory classes are great too, the best ones I’ve been too, the 0-13 months always booked up really fast when the new term dates were released. If your local library does anything like rhyme time, they’re a good option to have for an excuse to get out and about. Doesn’t matter how old little one is for those, even if most of the kids are much older. I’ve learnt loads of songs from those I didn’t know before. Xx

Anytime you feel ready to go. There's new born classes around but I found they're more for getting the parents back out again as babies tend to just sleep. I took my son at 2 months old x

I didn't want to pay for any classes that young, I went to one when he was 7 weeks as a free taster and he hated it and cried the whole way through 😂 we started paid for baby massage classes around 14 weeks and it was much better then. When he was your baby's age we did breast feeding support group, and rhyme time at the library. That was 2 days a week I had a really low pressure social event where I could talk to other adults and feed him freely when I was still getting to grips with getting my boobs out in public. There's no right or wrong answer, but when they're that young they're likely to either sleep through it or cry/need feeding etc as they don't really have wake windows, and if they do they're never timed with the class timings 😂

You could look at some mum meet ups? The mum club has different branches all over the country. We have another called MamaKind where I am and they do lots of meet ups and taster sessions, we're doing a one off water babies to try it and see if we like it, but it also includes tea and cake and 2 hours of chatting with other mums. https://themumclub.com/events/

It depends on the class. If it's just a stay and play, then go for it but some they have to be a certain age. I'm about to start baby massage with a friend and I think they have to be 4 weeks, another class we do is from 3 months

Baby massage is good for a newborn

Personally my baby didn't get anything out of classes until he was 6 months but every baby is different! At 3 weeks old he'll probably sleep through most of it but if it helps you to get out then go for it!

With my first I started going at about 10 months but not really starting with my second until he's around 19 months as the timings just don't work with nursery. We all go and watch my eldest at gymnastics weekly and we did start groups when my little one was a newborn, but very quickly realised they didn't work with his nap schedule!

i think if you’re doing it to get out of the house, you should try and do things that are more for yourself if that makes sense. i regret not taking advantage of the sleepy potato baby stage more to do more stuff that’s fun for me, like nails, hair, and sitting down for coffee without chasing a toddler around. 😅 you could even go to the cinema if you can get some baby headphones or something. but if you do want to go to a baby class, swimming might be a good one? or we also liked one called little glow, it was really nice for small babies it just had gentle music and lights and you could play with ribbons and scrunchy cloths etc xx