Can newborns swim?

After a mother successfully gives birth to a baby, many expectant mothers choose to let their children go swimming, which is also part of early education, but can newborns swim? In fact, newborns grow in water from the time they are fetuses. The mother's uterus is filled with amniotic fluid. It can be said that the fetus can swim naturally, so newborns also have this ability. Swimming is a great form of exercise that can increase your newborn's lung capacity.

1. Reasons why babies are born with the ability to swim

In fact, newborns have many amazing innate abilities, one of which is called the "swimming reflex." If you place a newborn baby in water on his stomach, he will use his limbs to make well-coordinated swimming-like movements. After 6 months, this reflex gradually disappears. After 6 months, if the baby is placed in water like this, he will struggle and move; it is not until 8 months that the baby has conscious swimming movements. The swimming reflex can help newborns who accidentally fall into the water avoid immediate drowning and increase the chances of being rescued.

2. Benefits of swimming for newborns

1. Make your baby smarter Swimming can effectively promote the development of your baby's brain and nervous system, stimulate your baby's potential, and lay a good foundation for improving your child's emotional intelligence and IQ.

2. Stabilize the baby's emotions when swimming, the massage effect of water will soothe the child's body and mind, the child will feel physically and mentally comfortable and mentally relaxed, and it can also eliminate the child's loneliness, anxiety, fear and other emotions.

3. Make the baby's heart stronger. The buoyancy of water, as well as the impact of water waves and water pressure on the baby's skin, massage the peripheral blood vessels, which will give the baby's heart a good exercise.

4. Improve baby's lung capacity. Swimming has a good effect on the development of the baby's chest. Swimming is a safe and natural way of exercise for young children. After persisting for a period of time, mothers will find that their children's chest development and lung capacity improvement are significantly better than those of babies of the same age.