Congratulations on the birth of your child! I'm sure you'll be a wonderful mother.

I think with so much stimulus for kids nowadays (tv, video games, gadgets etc.) they need a little extra encouragement to pursue sports/ physical activity.

I remember when I first took my kids swimming, they hated it for weeks.

However swimming was a core skill that I insisted they learned (I regretted that my parents did not push me to do it). After a while, they loved it. So much so that my middle daughter wants to go swimming for her birthday (lucky me!).