How to Familiarise Your Baby with Water before Swimming Lessons.

Infants are born with the ability to hold their breath for a short period of time and are very comfortable in a watery environment.

However, they can start to develop a sense of uncertainty or fear of the water from as early as 6 months old. This is why it is crucial to maintain your baby’s water familiarisation.

Early water familiarisation will lead to the baby becoming at home in the water and therefore more accepting of the conditioning process which we use to teach breath control on command. Teaching baby breath control on command is the most important learning to swim objective as this allows us to submerge the baby underwater without trauma.

Children who are scared of water can start with being comfortable in a bath top. Frequent exposure to that will make them more comfortable in a body of water.

Note: All actions should be supervised by an adult at all times.