{"id":8569,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_swimming\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","slug":"newborn_swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As demonstrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apadivisions.org\/division-35\/about\/heritage\/myrtle-mcgraw-biography.aspx\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.apadivisions.org\/division-35\/about\/heritage\/myrtle-mcgraw-biography.aspx&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Myrtle B. McGraw<\/a> (1899-1988), human newborns show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QW5p2G4EtP0\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QW5p2G4EtP0?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swimming-like patterns of movement<\/a>&nbsp;(see figure below)&nbsp;reminiscent of the front and back crawl when placed faced down or supine in water, suggesting a strong and well-developed <a href=\"http:\/\/dujs.dartmouth.edu\/winter-2012\/the-mammalian-diving-reflex#.UxEzJCinAyU\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/dujs.dartmouth.edu\/winter-2012\/the-mammalian-diving-reflex#.UxEzJCinAyU&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diving reflex<\/a>&nbsp;in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbSCSHzXkrI\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbSCSHzXkrI?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newborns<\/a>. &nbsp;It also suggests that it is an ontogenetic adaptation to prenatal life in the amniotic fluid as, like newborn imitation and pre-reaching movements, it disappears in subsequent weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/newborn-swimming.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Swimming movement patterns taken from films made by Myrtle McGraw: the upper (A) and bottom (B) figures depict front-like crawling motion (with the younger infant in the upper one and an older infant in the bottom one; note difference in pattern). &nbsp;A back-crawl like pattern can be seen in the middle (B) sequence. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"newborn_imitation\">Newborn imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_adaptation\">Ontogenetic adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"pre-reaching\">Pre-reaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As demonstrated by Myrtle B. McGraw (1899-1988), human newborns show swimming-like patterns of movement&nbsp;(see figure below)&nbsp;reminiscent of the front and back crawl when placed faced down or supine in water, suggesting a strong and well-developed diving reflex&nbsp;in newborns. &nbsp;It also suggests that it is an ontogenetic adaptation to prenatal life in the amniotic fluid as, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_swimming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newborn swimming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}