The benefits of newborn swimming make babies healthier

Babies can swim a few hours after birth, and there are many benefits of swimming for babies. Babies are soaked in amniotic fluid all day in their mothers' belly. Swimming at this time can make babies find a familiar feeling and can also make babies healthier and smarter.

Benefit 1: Make your baby smarter

The swimming movements of infants and young children are completed under the control of the brain. This kind of swimming with protective facilities is a kind of skin massage and touch under specific conditions formed by the impact and pressure of water on the skin of infants and young children. This whole-body exercise can improve the function of the brain, promote the brain's responsiveness to the external environment, stimulation ability and intellectual development. Research by medical experts from the former Soviet Union found that infants and young children who can swim or have practiced swimming (with protective facilities) are intelligent, studious, enterprising, have sharp thinking and quick brain reactions, and have higher IQs and EQs than babies of the same age who cannot swim.

Benefit 2: The baby grows taller

Newborn swimming can easily stretch the baby's muscles, joints, and ligaments that have been curled up for a long time in the womb. It can also effectively stimulate the development of the baby's bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles, promote the baby's height growth, and make the baby stronger. Swimming is a whole-body exercise. Babies can move their limbs freely in the water, which is beneficial to the development of flexibility and toughness of the skeletal system. In addition, when swimming, the baby's body is horizontal in the water, and the limb joints and spine will not be directly impacted by the reaction of the ground during movement. This is not only less likely to cause injury, but also beneficial to the flexibility and flexibility of the skeletal system, better promote bone development and growth, and correct bad habits and postures.

Benefit 3: Make your baby's heart stronger

When swimming, the buoyancy of water reduces the impact of gravity on cardiovascular circulation, providing favorable conditions for the heart's work; and the impact of water waves and water pressure on the skin can massage the peripheral blood vessels. Therefore, swimming can give the heart a better workout. It has been measured that the heart rate of infants and young children who swim regularly is 6-8 beats lower per minute than that of infants and young children who do not swim.

Benefit 4: Improve your baby’s lung capacity

When swimming, the pressure of water on the thorax increases lung capacity and has a good effect on the development of the thorax. Someone conducted a comparative experiment on two infants with the same health conditions, similar lung capacity and chest circumference. One of them participated in swimming training for one year, and the other did not. As a result, the lung capacity of the infant who participated in swimming increased by 262 ml, while that of the infant who did not participate in swimming only increased by 14 ml. The thermal conductivity of water is greater than that of air, and people consume more energy when moving in water than on land. To compensate, the digestive system is required to enhance digestion and absorption functions to absorb large amounts of nutrients to meet demand. This is undoubtedly beneficial to promoting the growth and development of infants and young children.

Benefit 5: Aids digestion

Swimming increases the baby's exercise, consumes a lot of physical energy, increases gastrointestinal motility, increases the baby's appetite, and enhances the absorption of nutrients, so the baby's weight will increase. At the same time, in order to compensate for the energy consumed in water, the baby's growth hormone level will increase, the digestive system will actively strengthen the digestion and absorption functions to absorb a large amount of nutrients, and the baby's growth rate will accelerate.