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Joyful Dolphin Swim - Younger Babies Swim

By Joyful Dolphin Swim Cambridge

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The benefits of early swimming are numerous, and helping babies along the way to swimming can be one of the parents’ most enjoyable experiences. Infants make an easy transition from their early swimming reflexes to conscious movements if you swim with them, showing the child how to find their buoyancy in the water with minimal support. The emphasis is on encouraging free movement in water that is conducive to swimming at such a time when your baby

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is both physically and emotionally ready. However, it is not a case of just playing in the water with your baby; it is a carefully designed progression of skills gleaned from many years of experience with a wide range of babies in on our courses. Parental closeness and involvement - it is the interaction of parents with their babies in the water underlies all the short-term and long-term benefits. Focus on mutual enjoyment - the more that babies take pleasure in early swimming, the more delighted are their parents and the babies thrive. It may help you overcome an intrinsic fear of water. Building on your confidence and sense of freedom - It may also help you recover a playfulness you have not experienced since childhood. Going swimming h

Age0 months – 6 months
Schedule summaryNext session: 29 Sept 2026, 12:00

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About Joyful Dolphin Swim Cambridge

Join our swim school at any stage from 6 weeks to 6 years of age. We teach the wonderful Birthlight 'Water Parenting' approach which is gentle, child-led, progressive, playful and fun...

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