News from "Sina Kids": In a well designed swimming hall, babies are enjoying themselves by freely swimming in the baby swimming pool, some are even sleeping soundly in the warm "spring" water. The sweet and joyful kids' song is heard in the hall. Entering this swimming hall specially designed for babies from 0-1 years old, you are surely affected by this joyful scene.

　　The babies in water are very lovely
Yesterday, our reporters saw the scene of baby swimming in the Beijing New Mother Post Partum Center. The umbilical cord of the newborn babies has not recovered yet. The nurse pastes a water-resistant paste on baby's umbilical cord and gives them a special swim ring. The newborn babies can adopt to the water surrounding in less than one minute! Touching the water, the baby will draw back its legs naturally but when it is put into water again, the baby can complete the warm water and enjoy it.

　　Just touching the water, a baby is dysphoric and seems she is going to cry. But when her whole body is put into water she suddenly gets back the familiar feeling in her mother's uterus, she opens her eyes and smiles to us. She rows her arms and legs happily and after a little while, she even sleeps soundly in water! After enjoying a short nap, the baby girl gets exciting again for her father came to watch her "performance". She swimming and swimming and finally lies on the water surface and look at her father quietly, she seems to say that " Dear dad, I am a good swimmer, am I?" 　　Another baby seems to be extremely for swimming. When the nurse takes off his cloth, he begins to laugh cheerly as if he knows that he is going to enjoy swimming. A new father brings his newborn baby to swim. The father asks the nurse anxiously: " I am born a poor swimmer, is it Ok for my son to swim? " . When he sees that his baby is freely enjoy himself in the swimming pool, his worry disappears.

As early as 1960s, baby swimming became a fashion.

　　According to Miss Pan-the director of Beijing New Mother Post Partum Center, at the beginning of 1960s, baby swimming became a fashion in some European Countries. At that time, lots of babies learned swimming before they could walk. At present, baby swimming becomes popular in some large cities like Guangzhou. Adult swimming is beneficial to the heart, brain and lung development and helps to improve body cooperating capacity. This holds true for baby swimming.

　　There are many requirements and restrictions for baby swimming

　　The 20 minutes long swimming requires preparation lasting for more than 10 minutes. The baby "Mini Swimming Pool" is an inversed T special device with the length of 1.5 meter and width of 0.8 meter. It is required to lay a plastic bag in the mini swimming pool before filling water. The room temperature and water temperature have strict restrictions. The required room temperature is 28℃ and the required water temperature is 38℃. The water in the mini swimming pool can be used one baby for once. We refill the water in the mini swimming before taking another baby to swim.

　　 The water filled in a mini-swimming pool for once costs RMB 50. Added some certain solute, the solution becomes as the same as amniotic solution in mother's body.

　　Baby benefits a lot from swimming.

　　According to the experts, it is the instinct for every newborn baby to swim. The static water pressure, float, water shock and water temperature creates the feeling of soft touching to the baby. This contributes to the development of baby's vision, hearing, movement and balance and further causes a series of reaction involved nerve system and incretion system so as to promote the baby's physically and brain growth.

　　The 38℃ water contains certain radiative mineral, it is very similar with the amniotic solution in mother's body. In this surrounding, the newborn baby can gradually adopt the exterior surroundings. According to the expert, baby is able to swim in this way till 3 years old. In fact, people has more than one hundred potential capacity, but if these potential capacities failed to be developed in baby time, the capacity will disappear for ever. For example, it is the instinct for newborn baby to swim within three months after birth. However, if this instinct has not be activated, it will disappear automatically after three months.

　　According to professional Wang-the director of Obstetrics and Gynecology Dept of People's Hospital, the baby swimming aims at combining the newborn baby's automatic motion with the passive massage. In this way, the brain potential capacity of newborn baby can be fully developed. Swimming helps to improve the vital capacity, improve the extremity cooperative capacity and skin metabolism. Besides, hundreds of water treatment ingredients and massage treatment can cure more than 30 baby diseases, for example: baby cerebral palsy, baby icterus, rachitis, etc.