What are the benefits of swimming for infants and young children?

Nowadays, more and more parents take their children to practice swimming, usually in infant care centers. The main reason is that they think doing so will help their physical and mental development, and they also see other people around them going there. However, most parents do not know much about the specific benefits of swimming for infants and young children, so the editor will make a detailed analysis below. Let’s take a look together.

1. Skeletal system: When infants and young children swim, it can greatly promote the development and growth of muscles and bones. It solves the difficult problem of how to make newborns move actively and is the best health care exercise for newborns.

2. Respiratory system: When infants and young children swim, the pressure of water on the chest cavity exercises the intercostal muscles, increases the ventilation of the alveoli, and exercises and strengthens the pectoralis major and minor muscles due to the exercise.

3. Cardiovascular system: Swimming for infants and young children can increase their heart rate, exercise the myocardium, make the heart contract more powerfully, increase the oxygen supply to the immune organs, speed up the establishment of their own immune function, and improve immunity to diseases, thereby accelerating the rate of growth and development.

4. Digestive system: Swimming for infants and young children can promote the secretion of hormones (gastrin, insulin, etc.) to help the gastrointestinal organs absorb and utilize food and increase gastrointestinal motility, so it can increase weight and promote high-quality growth and development of infants and young children. The result is: eat more, absorb faster, and have a strong body.

5. Sleep rhythm: Swimming for infants and young children helps to establish a good sleep rhythm and change the baby's sleep time. It allows them to exercise during the day and swim in the morning and afternoon, so that they can sleep soundly at night. After exercise, their sleep quality will become particularly good.

All the aspects introduced in the article are the benefits of swimming for infants and young children, so parents can take their children to practice frequently. However, the editor would like to make one point that you must pay attention to safety when infants and young children are swimming, and the frequency of swimming should not be too frequent, so as to avoid some adverse effects on the body.