How do babies swim so easily in water


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Babies carry any expertise of swimming yet occasionally face near-death from drowning in a bathroom sink... right... :laugh:

That is because they do not have the strength to roll over

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The documentary clips Ive seen where they drop babies in swimming pools and they "swim" to the surface is amazing. The look in their eyes is like, "yes this is my natural habitat". Of course if you leave them in the water they will drown because they do not know that you cannot breath in water.

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I saw this thing on TLC where parents were taking there babies swimming. They would take them under water and kind of push them to the other parent. The babies would come up and be laughing and smiling and all that happy stuff. But its because theyre so used to being in the womb. I guess they can easily adapt to the water because theyre not used to relying so much on their lungs..

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in the 50's, they way to teach your baby to swim would be literally to drop it into the swimming pool at about 3 months... :o

obviously there would be someone in the water ready to rescue it, but in 9/10 cases it would just swim to survive. Its prob. important to do it when they're young, cause otherwise they'd develop phobias of water etc. :(

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while in the woom tey are in water so they actually feel more confortable in water than whitout it, they can contain theyr breath for so long cause they remmeber that they didnt breth in the woom, the oxigen was provided by the umbilical cord.

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babies have natural instincts, like all animals. when a babie hits water (as its face is submerged) it will automatically hold its breat, just as a bird will always build a nest

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