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What are the benefits of swimming lessons with your baby/child?
Physical Benefits
Benefits for You: Classes are great for strengthening your core stability and they help the increase in muscle tone and the loss of calories and body fat.
Benefits for Your Baby/child: Swimming can help develop strength and coordination. It aids in baby’s early development, such as early walking. Associated motor skills are also improved through regular exercise.
Emotional Benefits
Benefits for You: The classes give you precious bonding time with your baby. Exercise releases endorphins, which leads to better moods and increased self-esteem. Swimming can also relieve stress through developing your heartbeat and fitness levels.
Benefits for Your Baby: Starting to swim at an early age familiarises children with water and gives them confidence. It is a natural environment for babies, in which they feel safe and secure.
Social Benefits
Benefits for You: Classes provide an opportunity to meet new parents in a friendly and relaxed environment.
Benefits for Your Baby/child: During the class, babies/children interact with others in a fun and happy social environment.
Intelligence Benefits
Weekly classes maintain your baby’s development and the water provides a great sensory environment for your baby/child. Swimming classes are structured to ensure babies are constantly and continuously stimulated. The songs and games are really effective ways to communicate with your baby, promoting learning through repetition, rhyme and movement.
Language Benefits
Language development can be improved through swimming. Babies are constantly interacting with you and other babies and children throughout the classes. The teacher also provides a verbal stimulus.