Baby Massage offers you a wonderful opportunity to bond with your child and offers many benefits for both your baby and the parents.
What is “bonding”?
- Love
- Security
- Connection
- Acceptance
- Communication
- Joy
- Unity
- Warmth
- Caring
- Happiness
- Peace
- Familiarity
Learning the techniques of infant massage allow you to sustain a regular connection with your infant/baby/child, where you spend quality time together, a special time fostering love, compassion and care for each other.
Evidence shows that loving, touching, nurturing contact between parents and baby has a positive impact on the infant’s development, health and wellbeing. Some examples are:
- Promotes relaxation and helps babies self-regulate calm, which reduces crying
- Enhances immune system function
- Improves overall functioning of the gastrointestinal trac
- Helps with congestion, gas, and colic
- Helps to improve pain management; Can relieve discomfort in teething
Your baby is ready to be massaged when it is
- 3-4 pounds minimum
- at least 32 week gestation age
- Medically stable
- If premature or ill, only healing touch is recommended
Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to learn more about our baby massage courses.