Starting life with trust
„See… you can do it!„… this is the message insulfed by the soft voice of Daria in the ear of so many newborn babies.
Elixar has interviewed its Tribe Member, Daria, in order to better understand the „newborn aquaticity“: a way to accompany new generations toward awaking senses and enjoying the surrounding elements.
Daria promotes such instinctive and unbiaised human abilities through a carefully prepared immersion of the newborn into the water element. In such manner, Daria is helping parents and their newborn child to engage in a path of selfconfidence.
What happens to us after birth?
Birth is abandoning water, the element that welcomed and nourished us in the womb for 9 months. The encounter with the elements of earth and air is a necessary shock and it could not be otherwise; any great change involves discomfort, disorientation and fear.
From that moment on, water becomes an almost sporadic or in any case limited appointment to the bathing ritual. The newborn is rarely put in the position of finding himself immersed in water before the age of three months; the cord at the beginning, the vaccinations then, then the fear of the parents or simply the lack of knowledge, prevent an encounter which instead should be encouraged to become a fundamental part in the very first phase of our existence.
All is connected!
An equally important element, fundamental for me, is the adoption of an open and curious approach towards the before, the pregnancy, and the after, the post-partum phase, both delicate phases and bearers of enormous emotional upheavals. With the help of water, once again the woman can in turn become a mother capable of welcoming, caring for, and able to listen to herself, with a new understanding of her own being.
For this reason, my contribution today is still through the element of water and I offer my services in a place dedicated to birth and early childhood where the treatments proposed require the newborn to enter the water with one or both parents in a tub with a temperature appropriate to the child’s body temperature.
Positive results based on know-how
Daria explains:
โFor years, with my team at Tata-o, we have worked in the field, first experimenting, then consolidating a method that has brought excellent results and by excellent I mean children who have literally built their play space in the water with spontaneity and joy, acquiring aquatic and swimming skills from the first months and years of life.โ
Everything has its value and contributes to achieving this result: the temperature and treatment of the water first and foremost, as well as the immediate external temperature around and in the changing rooms, which are also adequately equipped. The training of educators on neonatal and infant issues, where training means a continuous process of evolution in the field.
In listening and welcomingโฆ why are we unique?
Other treatments, however, are offered only to the newborn and the choice is dictated by the need:
A difficult and incompletely processed birth, difficulty with breastfeeding, difficulty sleeping, colic, or discomfort in the adaptation phases of life due to problems that are not immediately recognizable and attributable to a precise reason.
Water, precious ally of a lifetime
Another element that deserves attention is the parent’s need to understand how to manage showering, water on the face and immersions of their child in the first weeks of life. Helping parents becomes a precious opportunity for us to make this moment pleasant, easy and safe.
Subsequently, another fear is that the child may accidentally fall into the water, risking his life! By acquiring certain skills from the first months, the little one will react instinctively to danger, thus managing to avoid the worst. Last but not least, the precious contribution that continuous and correct aquatic practice guarantees a strengthening of the immune defenses, respiratory capacity and competence in the adaptation phases.
In the life of a human being the encounter with water will be continuous and in different forms: at the sea one day, with diving in a pool the other, apnea, immersions, a multitude of sports and activities, and of course a chance to relax. Nurturing our relationship with water from the very beginning of our life will condition the rest of our existence, an invaluable added valueโฆ Why give it up!