Baby Swimming: Swim before walking

• The first lesson 36-37 degrees;
• During the first month, gradually lower it to 34 degrees;
• The end of 3 months turn down to 32 degrees;
• The end of the year up to 30 degrees.

* Teaching children to swim, gently talk to him, encouraging his successes, encouraging, and conducts classes under the quiet melodic music. * Be careful not to cause fear of water - it can for a long time to develop a child's persistent refusal to float. * Do not hurry to immerse the child into the water in the supine position. Child may choke and get scared. Fear can be a consequence of your excess and persistence, when you continue to exercise, despite the fact that the child is naughty. * Pay close attention to how the child moves stay in the water, to prevent overload and hypothermia. If the baby shows signs of fatigue (lethargy, unwillingness to do the exercise) or hypothermia (shivering, "goose" the skin on the body, cyanotic hue of the lips) or the baby suddenly begins to play up, then the occupation must stop. * Be sure to start a blog - it makes it easier to monitor the status of the child. Wrote in his diary, what exercises to perform your kid what his mood.

Must keep firmly in mind: if a child is reluctant to learn new exercises, if he fails and he starts to play up, cry, we must immediately abandon the exercise.

When the child reaches 2 months, before doing the exercises in the bathroom, do not spend a long full body massage and do exercises 4.6, simulating the movement swimmer in the water.

Equipment necessary for swimming training

By the beginning of classes should prepare all necessary. You will need:

• Hours
• Thermometer to measure water temperature,
• Watering can or jug with warm water, from which you will pour the child
• Bright floating toys, rattles and toys drowned.

Part of the necessary accessories you will need to make yourself. These include:

"Mermaid's cap" - simple device made of pieces of foam sewn in the bonnet to support the head while swimming on their backs;

"Necklace mermaid" - the same device to support the head, but put on the chin of the child;

"Epaulets Neptune" inflated rubber pads secured to the back of the child. "Shoulder straps" used when navigating on the chest in children older than 4-5 months;

"Time of Neptune" - An inflatable rubber cushion attachable to the back child support when navigating on the chest;

P - shaped rack for hanging toys - is set on the sides of tubs so that the upper threshold was at a height of 8-10 cm from the surface of water;

"Suspension" half-meter strip to the creek at the ends and middle of the pad to support the child's chin.

Types of Supports

The first 3 months of the child trained to be in the water for a long time and travel with an adult in different directions. The main exercise in this period will be posting, sliding, diving. Shake a child to the water to move from one end of bath to another, always keep it to one or two hands.

In the first week recommend a simple and reliable support for "double lock" in position on the back and chest. With such support in the position on the back of his hand should be brought under the back of the child and your thumbs, as the lock, clasp the top of his shoulders. Head of the child will lie on your wrists. Also perform "double lock" in position on the chest, just summed up his hands under his chest child, and the fingers grasp his shoulders.

After each exercise, the child is transferred to a vertical position and give him a rest. To do this, use the vertical support. His left hand chest of the child and move it upright. Thumb and forefinger of his left hand keep the baby's chin and right hand head.

Swinging

Put your baby in the water on the chest or back, supporting the "double lock". Pull down the baby's legs down a bit, lift them to the surface. Make sure the child's legs were straight. Then shake the child's legs to the left - right. This rocking is called "fan". Making side swaying, gently turn the baby first on one side, then on the other. First, shake the child slowly, from occupation to occupation, increase the tempo to fast.

Postings

Posting - is sliding on the water, but not independent, but with the help of parents.

When posting a baby can lie across the bath, remove it from end to end bath sideways or along it. When a baby lies along the tub wiring can be done in two ways. In the first method you spend the child to the opposite end of the bath headfirst, and return back to his feet forward. In the second, bringing the child to the edge of bathtub, turn it 180 degrees and return back to his head forward.

Slipping on the back

Perform two - three entries with the support of the child "bonnet mermaids" or using their hands, immediately after turning sharply Accelerate wiring and pushed the child's hand, take away her. Few seconds a child sliding one. Repeat 15-20 times in one session.

Slipping on the chest

Self-navigating on the chest is usually mastered much later, but at 6 months old baby is well kept his head and rest on the chest with a "belt of Neptune" or "Chase Neptune.

Slipping alternates with exercises to enhance the movements down. Need to help your child meet a few initial movements, and he will continue to move independently. Give the child in the hands of an inflatable pillow. Holding onto her outstretched arms, the child will seek to maintain a horizontal position, and for that we must actively move his legs, if feet are sinking, little support them.

To encourage active movements of the feet or hands Use your favorite baby toys, especially voiced (bell, a cow lowing, a roaring bear).

Moving water games

The most important part of each lesson are games and amusements. Try to give each exercise game, fascinating character. From this depends largely on the success of learning, especially in the second half, when a child is literally every day growing interest in games.

"Catch up!"

Put the child on the bottom of the bath, on his shoulders, put on inflated rubber circle. Take the ribbon, on which hung four colored floating toys. Note the child to the toys and start to slowly pull them to him. Toys "run on water. Child must catch up with them.

"Water Polo"

A child stands in the bath. In the water, place a large inflatable ball. A light push send the ball to the child, invite your child to do the same. Thus, between you zavyazhetsya game.

For the year-old child a bath is usually already low and it needs to be translated into the pool. If you can continue our studies, we must prepare for the voyage to the new conditions, and above all to the new water temperature, which is usually in the pools will be lower than that in which floated a child.