I’m now in the swim of being a new mum

have been anxious,” says Rebecca, “but when you’re a second-time mum you’re more used to things, and you know a bit more about what’s right and wrong – you’re a bit more confident.”

And of course this time around she’s got the help of her ‘big girl’ Summer to help with baby Albie. “They absolutely adore each other, it’s really sweet,” she says fondly. “Summer’s like, ‘Mummy I’ll feed him, I’ll change him, I’ll do that’. She absolutely loves helping – she just thinks he’s a real-life doll for her that she gets to dress up and everything.”

Rebecca is clearly loving being a mum-of-two, and juggling looking after them with helping run the SwimStars swimming programme, which she founded in 2013 to teach children aged from three to 11 to swim ‘with an emphasis on fun’.

She’s just started its sisterprogramme BabyStars, to give babies and toddlers aged from 0-3 water confidence, just like her own children have.

“I’ve taken both my kids from when they were a couple of weeks old – Summer was three weeks old and Albie was five weeks, and they both absolutely loved the water,” she says proudly. “They’re used to being in water when they’re in your tummy, after all.”

As you’d probably expect from one of Britain’s greatest ever female swimmers, Rebecca – who first got into swimming herself at the age of three because her parents wanted her to learn a life skill – passionately believes you’re never too young to start getting used to water.

“I don’t think there’s an age too young – or too old – to start swimparents