Taking your baby swimming is a really rewarding experience.
As well as helping build their confidence there are many other benefits.
These include:
* Helping develop your baby's fitness; strengthen muscles, ligaments, heart and lungs.
* Developing motor control, agility, coordination and balance.
* Equipping your baby with vital lifesaving skills and helps develop an awareness of danger &
respect for the water.
* Lots of skin to skin contact, helping with the bonding especially for dads.
* Improving appetite, sleep and will help your baby to relax.
* Being recreational, fun and enjoyable. It helps teach a baby to share toys and take turns.
* Meeting new people being in a social environment and expanding your social network.
* Developing a baby’s social stimulation with other children and adults.
* Helping a parent gain in confidence with their baby in a water environment and
teaches them new skills.
We hope you will find this site really useful and it will give you the information you require to be able to take your baby to the pool by yourself or to join swimming lessons. If you cannot find the information you are looking for then please let us know via our forum or email and we will do our best to find the answer.
