How to Teach Your Baby to Swim: From Birth to Age Six (The Gentle Revolution Series)

Mr. Dorman gives specific information and pictures of how to teach your kids to swim. It is excellent and aligns with what the swimming coach is saying at the swim school. I found this book with our second son and can use the knowledge now. I wish I had found this book when I first son was learning how to swim. I know I am more prepared as a parent to be helpful to my kids progress and enjoy swimming even better. MUST READ!

Good step-by-step techniques for bonding and early learning with an infant in the water, starting with the home bathtub. Continues instruction up to and including actual swimming techniques for older children who have become comfortable with float and breath techniques in the pool.

My sister told me about this book and was using it with her 9mos old. Her baby was doing great....I decided to get the book and give it a try. I used my bathtub primarily because in WA it's cold. But every technique I tried worked like a charm. My kids got used to the water and trusted it and me. I had to pick up the book and put it down a few times but we just picked up where we left off. We had a great time still do because of the trust and things we learned practicing. The confidence my kids and I both recieved from the experience I wouldn't trade!

This book is an interesting story about the author's endeavors in teaching baby to swim, but I do not find it helpful for teaching my own baby how to swim. He gives directions about what to do, but baby hates it and there is no further advice! (Except for "baby will not hate it.") I recommend using the internet and/or local swim classes instead of buying this book.

This is a great book - lots of good actionable info. We have all the Doman books and we are getting amazing results with our little guy. Highly recommended to all parents (this and the other books by Glenn Doman)

When the local pool's baby swim class filled up 30 minutes after registration started, I decided to purchase a book on teaching a baby to swim. As a person with a lot of movement instruction background, I expected a clear, step by step guide. This book disappointed me. The writer describes his experience with his son mostly. He also has a Japanese, deep bath tub and starts the training in that tub. He really requires to start the program when the babies are tiny. A few days, or weeks old. But, even if you do start that early, he just describes his experience with one child - his own son. All in all, buying this book was a waste of money. I would recomment searching for baby swim instruction on YouTube. There is some nicely structured instruction available.

We've been following this method for 1 month now and I can't believe how fast my son has learned. I was nervous starting at one (since the book recommends starting at birth) but I am amazed at how quickly my son has learned. He propels himself through the water with assistance, blows bubbles, jumps in, can be fully submerged under water for 3-4 seconds at a time, and when I drop him under water 12-18" from the pool wall he can swim underwater, reach for the wall, pull himself up and rest--hanging on to the wall until I come and get him. This makes swimming not only lots of fun for us, but makes me feel that much more confident that He would be better prepared for a life threatening emergency

first heard about it actually on YOUTUBE. Different parents posted their videos of their baby infants swimming, or turning themselves over floating.It was so touching and amazing to see. So many of the parents said they learned from Douglas Domans book. Having a pool and canals all over the area where I live, it is sooo important for kids to learn swimming as early as possible. Book is nice with tips on fun bonding exercises to do with baby starting after birth.

Wasn't able to use religiously but followed as much as we could and both kids were fully submerging themselves and holding their breath on their own way before a year. They continue to love the water and we hope to carry the lessons on to move into fully swimming asap.

In good condition

great read and useful book. perfect bonding method too.

This book is meant for parents who want to start with their newborn baby. There are different chapters for different ages but it assumes that the child already masters the previous chapters. The activities however are aimed at each particular age so of course you can start your toddler with the activities meant for newborns but that will be complicated because it's a different developmental stage. I actually had this problem also with other doman books. My experience is unless you can start with a newborn, it's complicated to follow the method. I also didn't like that the pictures were black and white. I wasn't expecting that. Also the method is based on forced (although gentle) submersions (counting 1,2,3 and pulling the baby underwater) which are introduced almost at the beginning (5th exercise with newborns in the bathtub and 3rd exercise in the pool at 6 months)

I do not recommend this book. I was expecting techniques for teaching a 3 or 4 year old to swim - it wad not helpful for this.