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Taking your baby swimming is a truly rewarding experience. As well as helping to build baby’s confidence, there are many other benefits. These include:
* Helping to 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 developing an awareness of danger & respect for the water.
* Lots of skin to skin contact, helping with the bonding.
* Improving appetite, sleep and helping your baby to relax.
* Being recreational, fun and enjoyable. It helps teach a baby to share toys and take turns.
* 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 teaching them new skills. |