Did you know that infants have the natural ability to swim and even to dive?

Babies ability to swim is due to two intelligent baby swimming reflexes: the swimming reflex and the dive reflex. The former means baby will move their arms and legs in a swimming motion when supported in the water while tummy-side down. The latter means your child can hold their breath and open their eyes when underwater. These reflexes are strongest in the first three months of life . In the first year of their life, the brain develops more rapidly than at any other time. Swimming can have an extremely positive effect on this development – even more reason to take to the water your little one as early as possible.

The main benefits of baby swimming are:

Development of motor skills . Babies love the repetitive movement of bouncing and splishing and splashing in the pool. As a result, this movement provides fantastic stimulation for the vestibular system, which allows us to sense motion and to balance.

 Physical development. It‘s not only motor skills which are benefited by baby swimming. Physically it is wonderful for your baby, and the only form of exercise they can do literally from birth. Just fifteen minutes of swimming can provide a complete work-out for them. Parents often comment that their little ones eat and sleep better on the days they go swimming.

Emotional development. As babies learn how to manoeuvre in the water on their own. Their independence and self-confidence blossoms, and they enjoy being in the pool more and more. Where they might be very dependent on you in the early days, a few months on, a baby will happily swim a short distance between you and the instructor. Or splash off the poolside and into the water all by themselves.

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