How old can a baby swim after birth? What are the benefits of swimming? How to avoid risks? Which babies are not suitable for swimming?
When can babies swim? What are the benefits of swimming? Is leading swimming the best choice?
How many babies can swim?
Theoretically, if the baby's navel heals the next day after delivery, the baby can swim. Babies are tightly wrapped in amniotic fluid before birth and naturally adapt to the water environment. But it is not suitable to go to the swimming pool in the newborn. You can let your baby swim in the hospital bathtub or baby swimming area. When swimming for your baby at home, please pay attention to hold your baby's hips with one hand and his back with the other hand, and paddle back and forth on the water. Because the American Academy of Pediatrics advises infants under 1 not to recommend any form of swimming course, it will not help them. So we need to wait until the baby 1 year-old before we can learn some basic swimming styles, arm and foot swinging movements.
What are the benefits of swimming?
0 1. Improve your immunity
Babies usually have little activity. In order to stretch your limbs before swimming, you should warm up before swimming. This will promote the development and maturity of the central nervous system of the brain, improve physical fitness and enhance physical fitness. In addition, swimming in winter can protect the baby from outdoor air pollution and improve immunity. It is a "good helper" for babies to prevent influenza.
02, the body grows faster.
Swimming can also improve the baby's cardiopulmonary function. This is because the baby is in a horizontal state when swimming, which creates favorable conditions for blood circulation and helps to improve the function of the cardiovascular system. Not only that, but also shape a healthy body for the baby. The flow of water and the movement of muscles will play the role of massaging arteries, shaping the baby's body shape, making the limbs even and slender, promoting the baby's growth and development, and achieving excellent sports effects. The development of the baby's chest and the increase of vital capacity are also significantly better than those of the same age.
03, the baby is smarter
Every healthy baby can improve his intelligence in infancy, so that his brain potential can rapidly develop into genius intelligence. After the baby is born, you can complete many courses to improve your intelligence. Among them, the most effective way to improve infants' intelligence is swimming in winter. When everyone else is wrapped up, you can let your baby swim properly in winter, and he will recover his intelligence faster than others. Baby swimming can effectively promote the development of baby's brain and nervous system, stimulate baby's potential, and lay a good foundation for improving children's IQ and EQ.
04. Improve your baby's appetite and eat more.
Because the baby lacks exercise, the baby's digestive system will be weakened accordingly. Therefore, baby swimming just makes up for this shortcoming. The contraction of abdominal muscles will enhance intestinal peristalsis and accelerate meconium excretion. Due to the increase of exercise consumption, more food can be supplemented after swimming, thus enhancing the food absorption capacity. It can promote the excretion of feces in neonatal digestive system, the early regression of physiological jaundice, the early absorption of nutrients and the early recovery of physiological weight loss. It is especially suitable for the digestive system of infants and young children, especially in winter, infants and young children have a large amount of exercise, great physical consumption, increased nutrient intake and gastrointestinal peristalsis, and their weight gain is better than that in winter. Same age. When can babies swim? What are the benefits of swimming? Is leading swimming the best choice?
But baby swimming is not better than adult swimming after all, and they have many preventive measures. For example, is it safe for a baby to swim in the neck?
In the face of all kinds of rumors about the advantages and disadvantages of baby swimming, will it be entangled if you want to take your child swimming? Don't worry, in this issue, parents invited Dr. Chen, who has worked in the emergency room for many years and is both a father and a doctor, to decipher the rumors of baby collars for everyone. After a detailed investigation and study on the most professional medical resource website recognized by the medical community, he came to the conclusion that the scarf has no guilt, but the most suitable way for babies to swim is not to spit water.
Parent expert Chen Qinsheng, director of first aid and flight medical service of Beijing International SOS Rescue Center. He has worked in the emergency room and ICU for 15 years.
When I talked to the editor of Parents magazine about "Is it safe to swim in the neck", my first impression was very surprised. Because when my own daughter was 3 months old, I bought her a collar and took her to the swimming pool many times. At that time, leading swimming was a very popular and fashionable baby sport. Although I don't think it has any special function, at least, I have never considered this risk. Speaking of shame, as an emergency doctor who has worked for 15 years, I suddenly feel that I am not a qualified father, so I have done some research on baby swimming seriously.
Actually, what we are discussing today are two topics. First of all, is leading swimming safe for babies? Secondly, which swimming style is more suitable for babies?
The disadvantages of necking swimming are circulating on the Internet.
The baby's neck is very soft, and the neck may hurt the baby's soft carotid artery.
● The neck is made of plastic, which may cause baby allergy and allergic dermatitis.
● The neck is easy to compress the trachea and the cervical sinus, which will lead to suffocation, blood pressure drop and even shock.
● If the baby's neck is stuck in the neck, it will cause the body to move, but the head can't move, so the cervical spine and spine will be damaged, and even the neuronasal sequelae will be permanent.
● The neck size is not suitable, and children are easy to slide on the water.
● There are no related products in the United States. American pediatricians also believe that neck swimming is very dangerous for babies.
All these make most parents in China begin to understand and accept that neck swimming should be avoided as much as possible.
Is this a fact? What about the sin in the neck?
After reading these articles and discussions, I was scared. Think about it, my daughter is lucky to have escaped so many dangers, and her condemnation of herself is even more fierce. Then I can think, is my daughter really that lucky? The habit of working in a foreign hospital for many years has enabled me to cultivate good evidence in various ways. So I gave up the method of searching for answers in Chinese and changed to search for relevant information in English, but this was unexpected. In fact, there is no article about the above-mentioned cases of collar injury on U PTO DAT E (the most professional medical resource website recognized by the medical community). This really makes me feel strange. Theoretically, will such a high risk be reported? I went to Amazon and Yi Bei, the largest online shopping platforms in the United States, and the results surprised me again. Under the neckline products, there are more than 200 kinds of related products, and the prices range from 6 dollars to 50 dollars. The origin is also China. America and Europe. Now, the rumor that American law prohibits sales is self-contempt.
Ok, let's get back to the point. Is it so dangerous to swim with a collar? I carefully opened the customer's comments on Amazon's last collar, and 50 of them were complaints, 90% of which were complaints about monochrome and bad patterns, and the remaining 65,438+00% were complaints about the wrong collar size. None of the customers complained. It will hurt the baby's neck. In addition, there are hundreds of satisfactory comments.
In fact, if you are patient enough, please open one of the explanations, and you will find that the enterprise has done enough relevant research. Each product description will indicate the following items:
● The depth of the baby swimming pool must be absolutely appropriate. For babies wearing collars, their feet must be able to touch the bottom and provide adequate support.
● All collar products are only applicable to infants aged 3- 18 months. /kloc-After 0/8 months, it is recommended to use other swimming rings.
When swimming with a baby collar, please pay attention to the water temperature and the feeling of body surface.
● Before the baby enters the water, please carefully measure the size of the swimming ring and let an adult accompany you all the way.
In a word, we actually evaluate and analyze the leading swimming according to our own experience or unilateral words. Generally speaking, as long as the operation is correct and the use is cautious, the leading swimming is basically safe.
Is leading swimming the best choice for your baby?
I didn't give up on this topic and did a lot of homework. I found that the biggest advantage of swimming is that it can make him feel in his mother's stomach. Because of instinct, babies under 4 months will hold their breath when swimming and will not be caught by water. In addition, the soothing of water contributes to the development of baby skin. Parents who think that their children can learn to swim in infancy and learn different swimming styles will give up their unrealistic wishes as soon as possible, because swimming is only a good way for babies to grow up.
As early as 2004, the World Health Organization had the answer to the suggestion about the baby's swimming method, that is, the parents of the child hugged and played in the water without any swimming ring. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, it can also enhance the parent-child relationship. In the water, babies can feel their parents' body temperature and even their heartbeat. Parents can also feel the child's subtle movements and share his joy. Because parents want their children to become healthier by swimming, don't give them to neck rings or other swimming rings, and try to experience their growth.
Which babies are not suitable for swimming?
If the baby meets any of the following conditions, it is best not to swim.
The score of 1. apgar is the score of newborns, and the score of infants is less than 8 (excluding 8, it is usually 10 out of 10).
2. Babies with birth complications or needing special care and treatment.
3 premature (gestational age less than 32 weeks), not yet full-term baby.
4. Full-term (gestational age 37-40 weeks), but the baby is underweight (less than 2000g) at birth, or the previous weight is less than 5000g.
5. Infants with damaged or infected skin and severe eczema.
6. Infants who are unwell, sick or recovering.
7. Babies who have not been vaccinated for more than 24 hours.
Precautions for infants when swimming
1. Swimming time should be appropriate.
Reasonable amount of exercise can achieve the best exercise effect. Parents can ensure proper exercise by limiting swimming time. It is recommended not to exceed 20 minutes each time, and the time should not be too long. It takes 2 minutes for a baby to swim in the water for the first time. Then it can be gradually increased to 15-20 minutes according to the actual situation. It is best not to exceed 30 minutes. In addition, pay attention to the baby's posture in the water to avoid floating or sliding limbs. The former can't achieve the exercise effect, and the latter is easy to make the baby tired or even collapse.
2. Let the baby have some autonomy.
Some parents get very nervous when their babies swim. They have been holding the swimming ring in their hands and are very afraid of accidents. In fact, the mother can gently hold the baby's little hand and guide the child to slide in the water. As long as the distance between babies does not exceed one arm, the safety of children can be guaranteed. In addition, remind parents that the baby's personality will be more lively after three months. When swimming, please be careful not to lean your baby's legs against the wall of the swimming pool to prevent your body from leaning backwards.
3. Have a rest after swimming
After swimming, parents should immediately wash a towel, dry the baby, and apply appropriate baby skin care products after full body massage. In addition, don't forget to dry your hair in time to avoid catching a cold. After returning home, let the baby rest more and carefully observe the baby's sleep, milk volume, defecation and mental state. If there is anything unusual, you should consult the doctor or teacher in the swimming center immediately.
Although swimming is very beneficial to your baby's health, a little carelessness may put your baby in danger. Therefore, mothers must be extra careful when taking their babies swimming, and don't let good things turn into bad things.
Baby should pay attention to safety when swimming.
Baby must pay attention to safety when swimming. No matter how shallow the water is, don't leave the baby alone in the water. Many drowning incidents show that the danger of drowning only occurs in an instant.