Some future mothers think of when it is possible to go with the kid to the pool. Actually it is possible to train in swimming since the birth of the house in the bathroom. Early development of this skill has bases and features.
Training in swimming of the baby
To teach the child it is possible to float right after the birth. In such early training there are pluses and features. With the baby it is possible to be engaged in the large bathroom of the house. It is not obligatory to go for this purpose the pool at all. It is very convenient, especially in case it observes blossoming (acne of newborns). With such rash the pediatrician just will not issue the reference for the pool.
To train the baby in swimming, parents need to take some courage. Especially it is important for diving. If the hand of mom shivers, then the kid will surely feel her nervousness and will begin to cry, and at worst - will begin to be afraid of water. For the first classes it is possible to invite to the house of the expert. It will show what exercises can be carried out with the kid. Further it is desirable that mom as with her at the newborn the closest emotional contact trained the baby. It will help it to understand easily a condition of the child and to react sensitively to it.
Besides that the baby can swim at home in the bathroom, there is one more plus of early training in this skill - lack of fears at the child. The organism of the kid still remembers how it was in mother's womb in the water environment. Therefore water for it is not alien and terrible. Cases when the newborn initially does not love are very rare or is afraid to bathe.
There are also the newborn's reflexes, leaning on which it is possible easily to teach him to float.
Breath delay reflex
It is that the kid holds the breath at hit on a nose and a face of water or a current of air. Initially duration of such pause is 5-6 seconds. At regular trainings by a year it is possible to teach the child to be under water up to 40 seconds. For this reason newborn it is easily possible to learn to dive. Only it is necessary to be extremely careful: duration of immersions in water needs to be increased very gradually.
Swimming reflex
The second reflex of newborns very useful to swimming and is called - swimming. At immersion the kid begins to move to water actively all extremities thanks to what several seconds on a surface without support can even keep. With valid swimming such activity has nothing in common. But it is easily possible to teach the child to work at its basis correctly as hands and legs, that is to strengthen the muscles necessary for swimming. Initially the baby carries out movements at the level of a reflex, there is no mindfulness in them. Exercises which are carried out with the kid for training in swimming, are remembered at the level of muscle memory. The child can master coordinate swimming movements aged 2.5-3 years. But if with him were engaged before, then the muscle memory will allow the child to study swimming many times quicker and more simply. Both listed above a reflex die away approximately by 6 months. Therefore it is the simplest to begin training in swimming before achievement of this age. Than is more senior and the child becomes more conscious, especially he makes intelligent actions. Therefore he will carry out any exercises in the pool, only if wants and will understand how to do them. With age it is already more, than at the newborn appears various fears which can also prevent. For example, fear of diving or fear to appear in water without support of mom, that is to float independently. Proceeding from everything listed above, mom has to solve when to begin to be engaged with the child as potentially it is possible to do it since the birth.