Swim as a Brain Stimulation
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Claire swimming
During my pregnancy, I used to go to a book store to find a perfect book for my reading time. At that time, my husband found a great VCD about human body and he said I should buy it.
Thinking about the price, I thought it was not that expensive anyway so I decided to buy the VCD and watched it as soon as I got back home and I was so surprise to find out that baby can swim inside the water! She can automatically move her arm and legs and there is something inside her nose that can prevent water from coming into the nose.
It was so amazing….. I was thinking about to try it with my own baby as soon as she is born.
So, after I gave birth to my baby, I decided to wait until she is 3 months old and we went to the swimming pool around our apartment. At the first time, I just put her little foot inside the water, to make sure that she’s OK with the water temperature. But unfortunately, she cried. Probably because it was the first experience for her.
But later on, I decided to swim together instead of holding her on the side of the pool. I think that way could give her a secure feeling, and see…. she’s really fine with me in the water now…
The question is, why we should take our baby to swim? Is that really important?
Here, I will give some explanations about this:
- It is healthy. If she’s healthy, you can teach her anything and she will absorb it right away.
- When baby is swimming, she will move her entire body and the oxigent will flow into the blood circulation and the oxigent in the blood will flow into the brain. In this case, the brain will get more oxigent which is very good for the brain development
- Baby will move her left leg with right right arm, right leg with left and it will balance her brain. Baby who has a balance brain will be cleverer than a baby who is stronger in her left brain or right brain only.
- Swimming will increace the bondage between you and your baby
- Baby will learn to trust you wholeheartedly and become a full confident baby.
Looking at those advantage, don’t wait anylonger…. let’s go swimming…
