Stacey Solomon reveals sweet milestone baby Rex has hit – and fans are shocked

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Stacey Solomon has revealed an amazing milestone that baby Rex has hit.

The Loose Women panellist took to her Instagram page to reveal that five-month-old son Rex has learnt to swim!

The proud mum shared a series of incredible underwater snaps with her nearly two and a half million followers showing baby Rex swimming around confidently in a swimming pool.

Alongside the impressive snaps, Stacey wrote, ‘💦 My under water pickle 💦

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Last week Rex completed stage one of his swimming lessons so today we got to celebrate and take some underwater pictures!

‘They’re incredible,’ she continued, ‘I’ve never seen anything like them 😍Rex we are so so proud of you.

‘Your brothers LOVED seeing you splash and swim today and they can’t wait till you’re in the pool playing bulldog and water polo with them! We love you to the moon and back Rexy bum! WELL DONE 🏆

‘P.S I will treasure these pictures forever. I wished id have known about them with the others 😭 🖤 We did our pictures with @waterbabiesuk as it comes included with the course we took *gifted* 🖤’.

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And fans were astounded at the five-month-old’s advanced abilities, with the post raking up thousands of comments from followers expressing how impressed they were.

Just incredible!!’ wrote one fan, followed by another who added, ‘He looks so grown up! X’.

Gosh, Rex looks soo grown up!!’ agreed another. ‘And looks completely comfortable under the water 😍 such a happy baby 💙 What gorgeous photos to treasure xxx’.

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‘Your so brave for allowing him to go underwater!!!’ added another impressed fan. ‘I hold my breath now when my boy goes under water even for a second hehe xx’.

Others wrote, Wow!!!😘😘😘’, Ahhhh 💙😍’, Amazing 😍, ‘Wow amazing pics and Rex is so brave Xxxx’ and ‘Omg babe these are the cutest 😭😍❤️’.

Well done to little Rex for hitting such an amazing milestone!

Aleesha Badkar
Lifestyle Writer

Aleesha Badkar is a lifestyle writer who specialises in health, beauty - and the royals. After completing her MA in Magazine Journalism at the City, the University of London in 2017, she interned at Women’s Health, Stylist, and Harper’s Bazaar, creating features and news pieces on health, beauty, and fitness, wellbeing, and food. She loves to practice what she preaches in her everyday life with copious amounts of herbal tea, Pilates, and hyaluronic acid.