How To Teach A Toddler To Hold Breath Underwater

Imagine if you will finding your head under the water for the first time in your life. Diving reflexbreathing under water comes almost naturally.

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Work on turning the head to breathe while floating prone in the water.

How to teach a toddler to hold breath underwater. Learn how to teach a child to go underwater while swimming from a professional swim teacher in this free swimming lesson video. While you hold your child have him hold his breath and put the side of his face in the water. Make sure your child understand the commands first blow all your air out and then take in a big breath and hold it in at this point you need your child to repeat the exercise without you pinching his or her nose shut.

Help a child float on the water with his face submerged blowing bubbles. Every one to two seconds tap the youngster on the head to indicate that he should turn his head to the side and take a breath. After you demonstrate teach your kids in the following steps.

One cheek at a time. Have him gently lower his cheek into the water so that its fully submerged but his nose isnt in the water. In this video i show how to hold your breath by.

Make sure you pinch your childs nose shut and count out loud to 10 by counting 1 and 2 and 3 and. Its helpful to know that children have a diving reflex. While there are plenty of videos out there showing babies holding their breath underwater a lot of the kids that i teach have forgotten how.

By week 4 you should be able to get full body under the water week 5 you can do a short release from one person to another under water. This reflex tends to encourage them to hold their breath automatically. Average mike s1 e3 how i learned to hold my breath for 4.

If the child isnt getting taking a breath before going under blowing into the mouth with cause them to take a breath before you dip them.

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