Benefits of Baby Massage
Massage is a good way in which encourages loving communication between parents and their children.
Massage is a truly wonderful way to make your baby feel safe and secure by showing them that they are loved and cared for.
Massage is a truly wonderful way to make your baby feel safe and secure by showing them that they are loved and cared for.
Benefits to baby:
* Stimulates a baby's circulation (increased blood flow ensures oxygen and nutrients reach baby's cells and tissues)
* Stimulates and strengthens a baby/child's immune system
* Soothes and comforts, helping to relieve anxiety
* Promotes relaxation and helps induce sleep (longer and deeper)
* Helps teach to experience relaxation
* Gives baby/child reassurance through skin contact
* Aids digestion and can help relieve colic and constipation
* Encourages muscular co-ordination and joint mobility
* Encourages faster weight gain (under weight babies & children can benefit by an increase in appetite
* Promotes fuller and deeper respiration, increasing cell regeneration for growth and development
* Improves the appearance and texture of the skin
* Stimulation of the skin through massage increases the production of endorphins which helps to reduce pain and tension, and improves emotional well being
* Improves sensory awareness due to tactile stimulation
* Stimulates the nervous system through stimulation of skin (to enhance neurological and motor development)
* Promotes emotional security and a healthy body image through development of body awareness
* Helps foster parents bond with babies/children due to intimate interaction time
* Teaches communication and helps build social skills
* Increases vocalisation, assisting in speech and language development
* Improves physical and mental energy levels, encouraging alertness and concentration
* Helps relieve localised tension, stiffness or aches, such as headaches, eye strain and backache
* Help take your child's mind away from worries and doubts and cope with daily pressures in a positive frame of mind
* Provides a valuable opportunity to share
* Powerful demonstration of unconditional love
* Stimulates and strengthens a baby/child's immune system
* Soothes and comforts, helping to relieve anxiety
* Promotes relaxation and helps induce sleep (longer and deeper)
* Helps teach to experience relaxation
* Gives baby/child reassurance through skin contact
* Aids digestion and can help relieve colic and constipation
* Encourages muscular co-ordination and joint mobility
* Encourages faster weight gain (under weight babies & children can benefit by an increase in appetite
* Promotes fuller and deeper respiration, increasing cell regeneration for growth and development
* Improves the appearance and texture of the skin
* Stimulation of the skin through massage increases the production of endorphins which helps to reduce pain and tension, and improves emotional well being
* Improves sensory awareness due to tactile stimulation
* Stimulates the nervous system through stimulation of skin (to enhance neurological and motor development)
* Promotes emotional security and a healthy body image through development of body awareness
* Helps foster parents bond with babies/children due to intimate interaction time
* Teaches communication and helps build social skills
* Increases vocalisation, assisting in speech and language development
* Improves physical and mental energy levels, encouraging alertness and concentration
* Helps relieve localised tension, stiffness or aches, such as headaches, eye strain and backache
* Help take your child's mind away from worries and doubts and cope with daily pressures in a positive frame of mind
* Provides a valuable opportunity to share
* Powerful demonstration of unconditional love
Benefits to parents:
* Deepens and strengthens the relationship between a baby/child and its parents by encouraging bonding
* Helps parents read baby cues/ non-verbal signs
* Enhances communication and builds mutual respect
* Helps increase confidence and self-esteem in parenting role
* Develops confidence of parents handling their baby
* Fosters feelings of comfort, trust, enjoyment and security
* Can help reduce stress in a baby/child and its parents, helping them both cope more easily
* Increases parents ability to help relax baby/child in times of stress or distress
* Provides a period of mutual pleasure and focused time and attention for both parents and their babies/children to enjoy
* Helps parents to become more aware and understanding of their baby's needs, as the massage becomes a form of loving communication
* Provides a special time for intimacy with baby/child
* Helps parents read baby cues/ non-verbal signs
* Enhances communication and builds mutual respect
* Helps increase confidence and self-esteem in parenting role
* Develops confidence of parents handling their baby
* Fosters feelings of comfort, trust, enjoyment and security
* Can help reduce stress in a baby/child and its parents, helping them both cope more easily
* Increases parents ability to help relax baby/child in times of stress or distress
* Provides a period of mutual pleasure and focused time and attention for both parents and their babies/children to enjoy
* Helps parents to become more aware and understanding of their baby's needs, as the massage becomes a form of loving communication
* Provides a special time for intimacy with baby/child
