Baby Massage Techniques

Baby Massage is a wonderful bonding experience for all parents and guardians.  It is also a parenting skill that enriches family interaction. Baby massage develops a child's confidence in touch and allows the child to explore and experience their surroundings which is essential for child development and confidence.

Regularly massaging your baby is a way to give them much more.  

One of the most important experiences for your baby's development is the  loving touch from a parent/guardian. 

In addition to being used as a relaxation tool, it is also the ideal opportunity to create a special fun time and helps parent/guardian and child bonding.

Studies have shown that routine touch and massage can lead to improved physiological, cognitive, emotional and social development. Specifically, routine baby massage has even been shown to improve mental development and increase alertness and attentiveness. Your baby’s first emotional bonds are built from physical contact, and these serve as the foundation for emotional and intellectual development later in life.   Language scientists are now beginning to understand that in many ways, touch is our first language.

Benefits of Baby Massage are:

Helps to improve sensory and body awareness

Helps to sleep deeper and more soundly

Helps with congestion, wind and colic

Provides all the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment, face to face, touch, voice, smell and movement

Helps parents feel more competent in caring for their children

Provides parents with one on one quiet time or interactive play with their children

Gives parents the tools for understanding their child's unique rhythms and patterns

It is recommended that you learn more from someone with a qualification in baby massage to gain the full benefit. Coming to my baby massage session is an ideal way to learn to massage your baby safely.

I also do one to one sessions in your own home.