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Father with baby getting used to a swimming pool Baby submerged, instinctively holding his breath underwater. Infant swimming is the phenomenon of human babies and toddlers reflexively moving themselves through water and changing their rate of respiration and heart rate in response to being submerged.
The diagnosis of a breath-holding spell is made clinically. A good history including the sequence of events, lack of incontinence and no postictal phase, help to make an accurate diagnosis. Some families are advised to make a video recording of the events to aid diagnosis. An electrocardiogram (ECG) may rule out cardiac arrhythmia as a cause. [1]
Freediving blackout, breath-hold blackout, [1] or apnea blackout is a class of hypoxic blackout, a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold (freedive or dynamic apnea) dive, when the swimmer does not necessarily experience an urgent need to breathe and has no other obvious medical condition that might have caused it.
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Diving reflex in a human baby. The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date.
Kate Winslet, who held her breath underwater for 7 minutes and 14 seconds while filming "Avatar: The Way of Water," said the feat involved both physical and mental conditioning.
Just imagine, we were claiming that cats “stole babies’ breath” as far back as we were during witches at the stake. Maybe it’s time to update our stories about felines and infants.
Just a Breath Away (French: Dans la brume) is a Canadian-French co-produced thriller film, directed by Daniel Roby and released in 2018. [4] The film stars Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko as Mathieu and Anna, parents trying to protect their daughter ( Fantine Harduin ) from a toxic gas cloud that is enveloping Paris .