A survey conducted on the Internet among mothers and fathers from 21 years old with young children under 3 years old showed that not many parents attach importance to bathing babies. Very vain, because this is not only a component of child care, but also an important part of his mental and physical development.
The survey results are very eloquent:
- only 42% of parents believe that swimming can be useful for the mental development of children;
- only 32% of moms and dads use time during water procedures for the development of the child.
What exactly is this talking about? Maybe about the irrational use of their own capabilities? Or about insufficient knowledge about bathing and its beneficial effects on sensory intelligence? Here is what Nadezhda Morozova, a child and family psychologist, thinks about this:
- In the first month, the baby is hard of hearing and sees, most of the information about the environment he perceives through the skin, mouth and nose, that is, from contact. The more the child’s brain receives impulses during this period, the better it develops. With this, not only bathing, but also simple touches, massagesair baths.
- Swimming should be associated with a pleasant event.. It will help to tune in to sleep, relax. Bathing a baby every day is not necessary: pediatricians believe that bathing a baby is enough 2-3 times a week, if there are no other appointments from specialized doctors. For example, in the case of muscle hypertonicity, neuropathologists recommend that bathing is a daily active procedure. There may be other reasons for bathing every day (sweatshirt, diaper rash etc.). As the baby grows, bathing can become a daily pleasant ritual.
- Sensory intelligence is different for every person. You may notice that from different births, different babies have individual preferences during bathing: someone loves the sound of water, another cannot imagine taking a bath without diving (how to teach a baby to dive) Some children prefer to taste everything. This character trait can manifest itself in the form of a bitten beautiful soap or a licked bottle of shampoo. Other children prefer to swim only with interesting things: they want to have their favorite toys and a beautiful bottle for foam (bath toys for babies up to one year old).
- To wash your hair does not become a tragedy for your baby, you need teach him to throw his head back at your request while swimming. The sooner you get it, the better. Develop a team for this and at first help the child with your own hand. So that the shampoo does not pinch your eyes, buy special gentle bathing products for children (shampoo, foam).
- Bathing – this is not only daily hygiene ritual, but also the opportunity to learn something useful and interesting. Build towers of foam with your child, immerse objects in water, use tasty-smelling shampoos and soap.There are plenty of options for playing in water and all of them help to develop hearing, smell and touch.
We also read on the topic of swimming:
- How to bathe newborn babies: preparation for water procedures, bathing, after bathing, bathing nursery rhymes -https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/kak-pravilno-kupat-novorozhdennyih-detey.html;
- What to do if a child is afraid to bathe in the bathroom: reasons why children are afraid to bathe, safety rules, tips and tricks -https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/rebenok-boitsya-kupatsya.html;
- The optimum temperature for bathing a newborn baby ishttps://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/optimalnaya-temperatura-vodyi-dlya-kupaniya-novorozhdennogo-rebenka.html.
Babies swim fearlessly, dive and feel like a fish in water:
I also think that swimming is very beneficial. When I bathe my baby, I always try to play with her. We launch boats and learn the sounds that the duck, for example, makes.) It is very important that the child associates swimming with pleasant moments. My girl, she can sit in the bathroom for an hour and does not want to get out of there. I even plan to give her a swim, because the muscles also need to be developed and kept in good shape.
Honestly, somehow I never paid much attention to this, but it turns out to be almost a kind of ritual. I bathe my child 3-4 times a week, he loves water, but he is afraid to dive, he starts even when watering from above, when my head.
In winter, I bathe my son 2 times a week. If necessary, respectively, more often. At first they tried to bathe before going to bed, but for some reason for him it was a charge of energy and vigor ... However, there is someone) Now only in the morning and lunch time.