This is the bizarre moment a newborn wore a rubber ring around its neck to float in a water basin at a hospital in China.

Footage shows the baby with its head poking out the middle of the inflatable while waiting for pediatric nurses to bathe it on December 16.

Mum Victoria Ticse was waiting beside the table while the child looked calm in the water at the clinic in Beijing.

Victoria said: 'I delivered the baby through caesarian section. Many of my friends asked me why they put my kid in the tub, but that is how they bathe babies in hospitals here.'

Many Chinese hospitals incorporate rubber rings for bathing as part of routine newborn care, especially for babies born via caesarean section, to ease their transition from the womb. The buoyancy and warmth of the water can relax the baby and promote a sense of security.