I sometime tell those who come to the pool for the first time at a “certain” age that “It is never too late to come to the pool!”
The same is true for the opposite case: it is never too early to start bringing your baby to the pool!
Our little ones are familiar with water even from before coming into the world by being immersed in the amniotic fluid in their mother’s womb; because of this, they can be brought to the pool from the earliest months of life. This is generally after the third month, when the first vaccinations are completed.
From a psychomotor standpoint, aquatic activities offer many advantages for the little ones’ development. In fact, water helps them discover their bodies, develop motor intelligence and the ability to orient themselves in space; it also helps them gain a sense of rhythm.
The goals obviously change as the child grows and adapts to various stages of development.
In the early months water is an element that unites, strengthens and encourages parent-child relationship, through moments of deep interaction and contact. This is the case until the twelfth month when they can experience the first spontaneous reports with the environment and some games.
Around the eighteenth month they can have greater autonomy in the…
