{"id":128489,"date":"2023-02-28T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elamusspa.rktv.ee\/why-go-swimming-with-your-baby\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:12:24","slug":"why-go-swimming-with-your-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elamusspa.rktv.ee\/en\/why-go-swimming-with-your-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Why go swimming with your baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Babies may still be tiny and only just discovering the world, but in water they feel like fish! Even diving underwater they feel no panic at all, only sincere curiosity.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Karen H\u00e4rms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Children like water<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After all, babies spend 9 months growing in their mother’s womb in amniotic fluid, as if in a pool. So they are born with the ability to swim and with a diving reflex.<\/p>\n

Piret Nuut, swimming coach at the Ujume Koos swimming club based at Mustam\u00e4e Elamus SPA, explains that between the 3rd and 6th month of life the diving reflex disappears and has to be learned again. Some children start diving as babies and keep it up in the future, while another child may refuse it at some point. The most important thing in a swimming lesson, however, is becoming friends with water, playing in the water environment and contact with the parents. It is important that the parents are not afraid, because for children this is a natural skill.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Karen H\u00e4rms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The aim of children’s swimming lessons at the beginner stage is to learn to adapt to water through play and to support the child’s readiness to acquire swimming skills.
Through playful activity children acquire versatile skills for coping in water and near bodies of water, the ability to overcome water-related fears and to enjoy the water.<\/p>\n

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To prepare for diving, all parents can do a lot at home. How to do it?<\/strong><\/h3>\n