Infant Massage
Infant massage is a very natural technique to encourage health in your baby. There are many ways that infant massage will benefit both the baby and parents.
The benefits of infant massage are becoming more and more apparent, especially as more people are becoming aware of the holistic and natural approach to better health and wellbeing.
Some of the benefits of infant massage:
- Help relieve discomfort from teething
- Helps relieve congestion
- Helps with colic
- Relieves emotional stress
- Reduces stress
- Promotes general wellbeing
- Improves immune system
- Helps relaxation
- Promotes a longer and more sound sleep
- Promotes communication and bonding
- Helps regulate the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems
There are also pros for the parents as well. Firstly, seeing their baby happy and healthy is in itself a relief for the parent, but there are also many other ways to benefit.
Benefits for the parents include:
- Provides a special focused time to deepen the bond
- Helps to understand and respond to baby's cues
- Promotes feelings of confidence and competence
- Enables parents to relax baby
- Improves parent and infant communication
- It is fun for the parent
- Eases the stress of parent that may not be with child during the day
Jacqui McClure has been teaching Infant massage in the bay area since 2003, she teaches at Smart Healthy Babies in Alameda and also to new Mom's group or as a private session. The class is usually about an hour in length, Jacqui provides massage oil and comprehensive worksheets to take home so that you can begin massaging your little one everyday!!
If you have any questions or would like to organize instruction for your Mom's group, please contact Jacqui at BTLWC at 510-769-6980 or email Jacqui@backtolifewellnesscenter.
