Swimming For Babies
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Swimming is a life saving skill, as well as a holistic and simple exercise with benefits that go beyond physical development and improved health. Swimming stimulates intelligence and extends lifespan. Swimming can prevent your child from drowning, which is a major cause of death in young children. Swimming is fun and imparts long-lasting happiness. This book explains highly effective methods and strategies to teach babies the art of swimming at an early age. It also explains all the associated preparations, precautions as well as benefits that your child will reap on learning to swim. You will learn all the aspects of baby swimming from this book like:
* Benefits of swimming
* Reasons to start early
* Influence of Parent on baby swimming
* Preparations, precautions, hygiene and safety during baby swimming
* Proven strategies to teach babies to swim from infant stage to six years
Albert Gundani
Albert Gundani, lives in Manchester, UK with his beautiful wife and two daughters. Born in Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa for four years in his late twenties and early thirties. Moved to England in 2002.The rest is at: www.albertgundani.com
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Swimming For Babies - Albert Gundani
Swimming for Babies
7 Reasons Why Swimming is Good for Your Baby
Mark Dube
Copyright 2014 Mark Dube
Smashwords Edition
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Swimming is a life saving skill, as well as a holistic and simple exercise with benefits that go beyond physical development and improved health. Swimming stimulates intelligence and extends lifespan. Swimming can prevent your child from drowning, which is a major cause of death in young children. Swimming is fun and imparts long-lasting happiness. This book explains highly effective methods and strategies to teach babies the art of swimming at an early age. It also explains all the associated preparations, precautions as well as benefits that your child will reap on learning to swim. You will learn all the aspects of baby swimming from this book like:
* Benefits of swimming
* Reasons to start early
* Influence of Parent on baby swimming
* Preparations, precautions, hygiene and safety during baby swimming
* Proven strategies to teach babies to swim from infant stage to six years
Table of Contents
1. Babies Can Swim
2. Benefits of Teaching Babies to Swim
3. Reasons to Start Early
4. Influence of Parent’s Swimming Abilities on Learning to Swim by Babies
5. Things to Buy Before Starting
6. Best Practices for Baby Swimming Classes
7. Teaching Babies to Swim
7a. Infants
7b. Six Months to One Year
7c. One Year to Three Years
7d. Three Years to Six Years
8. Water Hygiene and Safety
9. Author’s Note
1
Babies Can Swim
A look at any baby instantly tickles our cuteness senses. We feel that the baby is beautiful, immovable and weak, therefore, is in need of protection. In-fact, a thought, never crosses our mind that he could be an expert swimmer! A newborn infant would have already been swimming for almost seven months in his mother’s womb. Every newborn is an expert swimmer!
Let me explain.
During the first three weeks of pregnancy, your baby is just a rapidly growing ball of multiplying cells. At four weeks, the baby grows up to the size of a poppy seed. This marks the initiation of formation and development of all the organs. Six weeks from here, the baby will have all the organs formed. Off-course, very tiny to be distinguished even using medical devices. During 6 to seven weeks, heart starts beating and limbs