{"id":51267,"date":"2022-03-16T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acvaticbebeclub.ro\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:13","slug":"how-fast-a-baby-learns-to-swim-an-informative-guide-for-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acvaticbebeclub.ro\/en\/cat-de-repede-invata-sa-inoate-un-bebelus-ghid-informativ-pentru-parinti\/","title":{"rendered":"How quickly does a baby learn to swim - Informative guide for parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every baby is unique. Your baby is unique. So unique, different, exceptional will be his path in life. The same idea is followed in aquatic education, because every baby begins his experience with water differently, as a space, as a time and as a sensory stimulus. And from this point of view, there will never be a comparison. Because the most important mission that you have, as a parent, is to give him an important chance: that of accommodating, of feeling and becoming one with the water, of receiving all the benefits of this wonderful sport in a safe environment and without comparing him to other babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, okay, you might say, but how do I know this sport is safe? How do I know my baby will actually learn something? And especially how much patience should I arm myself with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The swimming reflex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, you need to know exactly what your little one's developmental stages are, to better understand how aquatic education helps them, even from just a few months. If in the first month the baby is more concerned with sleeping and eating and has a predominantly reflexive behavior, you should know that he was already born with a reflex that he will lose around 4-6 months: the swimming reflex. It is an archaic instinct that helps him survive in case he falls into the water. Of course, this will not happen, because you are a responsible parent, but it is precisely this reflex that must be speculated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So from 2 months onwards we must take advantage of it, of the primary instinct of survival in the water. Because the baby has already become active, his motor cortex matures, unnecessary reflexes disappear, he responds to all stimuli and, most importantly, he has the necessary motility to start aquatic education. This, plus the swimming reflex that he has not lost, makes him the perfect candidate to step into the aquatic world, now, before he starts to develop fears, anxieties and tantrums. Now the baby starts to develop, above all, fundamental confidence, the feeling of the capacity for action and the coherence of his own being and exercises learning capacities. Now is the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it is not mandatory for babies to start aquatic education at 2-3 months<\/a>, we only tell you what specialists recommend as a result of the way in which it develops cognitively. The recommendation also comes as an addition to the fact that our little ones have no idea what fear is until 8-9 months, even 1 year. Some are even braver and discover this emotion only at around 2 years old. The lack of the instinct of conservation that we adults strongly perceive is a strong point in aquatic education, precisely because water is not perceived as a threat by little swimmers, but rather as a friendly, comfortable, intimate environment, associated with intrauterine life. Attention, we are talking about aquatic education here, not about a child left on the edge of a pool unattended. Only in the first case is the lack of fear an advantage. In the second case, aquatic education is the biggest advantage and you will immediately see why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABCs of Aquatic Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where your baby's adventure at Acvatic Bebe Club begins. And you need to know it, in order to fully understand the answer to the question in the title of this article. We call it ABC because it is exactly like an ABC book of swimming, where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n