I remember hearing this as a kid and wondering why, if I did start to cramp, I couldn’t just get out of the pool. According to MedicineNet’s Melissa Stoppler, MD, “While it’s true that the digestive process does divert the circulation of the blood toward the gut and to a certain extent, away from the muscles, the fact is that an episode of drowning caused by swimming on a full stomach has never been documented.” So what the good doctor is saying is: There is no reason for a mom to utter this one ever again.
