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For Newborns and Tiny Infants


Content
  • Letter to parents on Born-to-swim Experience benefits
  • At what age can they begin swimming?
  • SUPPLEMENT: BABY MONET SWIMS at 5 days old
  • Why Start Babies so Young?
  • The 20 Benefits of Baby Swimming
  • SUPPLEMENT: The 20 Benefits of Baby Swimming
  • WHAT SHOULD THEY WEAR?
  • WHY WEAR A HAPPY NAPPY
  • Rules to Keep Your Water Safe and Clean - "Diaper Checks"
  • Why are wetsuits so important
  • Why use wetsuits?
  • How to put a wetsuit on a newborn and don't forget to SMILE!
  • RECOMMENDED TEACHING AIDS FOR NEWBORNS & SMALL BABIES
  • Small Ring Backpack Wrap for Newborns & Small Babies.pdf
  • Yoga Mat for Infant Back Floating
  • Start the lesson with the Small Ring Backpack, extra Open SRBP idea
  • How to put frame on small baby's shoulders
  • ASSISTED BACK FLOAT Folded Alphabet Frame inside a wetsuit
  • HOW TO START
  • GRADE 0 & 1 INFANT - How to hold a Newborn in the water
  • INTRO TO POLLIWOG- Newborn Chin Hold
  • INTRO TO POLLIWOG Tummy Time in the water
  • BACK FLOATS
  • 3 1/2 Mo in a tub w/ Backpack & Wetsuit
  • Stepping Reflex during Back Floats, Leg Presses off wall, using a alphabet frame
  • BEGINNER SUNFISH while baby does Leg Presses off the wall
  • Yoga mat backfloat with puddle jumper
  • INFANT Beginner Sunfish with Multiple Frames
  • SUBMERSIONS
  • Destination Submersion Manual
  • All infant submersions
  • Reverse Submersion, 2 month old
  • 5-day-old lesson - Back Float & Submersions
  • From Showers to Submersions
  • How to teach a parent to do BACKWARD SUBMERSIONS
  • GLOSSARY of INFANT LESSON TERMS
  • FRONT GLIDES
  • 5 1/2 week old's 1st time to be released during "Relay Swim-Submersion"
  • MISC BABY INFO
  • Baby Swimming Reaction - on the Infant Swimming Reflex
  • Secret Life of Babies: babies swimming underwater
  • Breathology - How early should we start breath holding with babies?
  • Wikipedia on Infant Swimming
  • Tummy time hold and Stepping Reflex practice
  • PARENT-TOT: Newborn Submersion details with the Small Ring Backpack Wrap (2.20)
  • BABY REFLEXES
  • Baby crying - it's rocking that does the trick
  • Segmental Roll Reflex
  • Postural and Locomotor Development
  • Developmental Milestones "Rolling From Back to Tummy Starts Around 5 to 7 Mo"
  • Postural reflexes
  • SUPPLEMENT: "THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF BABIES"
  • BABIES BORN WITH REFLEX where Larynx closes to block the entrance to throat
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed