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Benefits for Baby
Provides a special time of communication that fosters love, compassion, and respect • Improves general well-being • Provides an intimate time for children to confide in parents • Improves overall functioning of the gastrointestinal tract • Promotes relaxation and helps babies self-regulate calm, which reduces crying • Helps to normalize muscle tone • Improves circulation • Enhances immune system function • Improves midline orientation • Helps to improve sensory and body awareness • Enhances neurological development • Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and more soundly • Helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells. Improves respiration • Helps to improve pain managament; can relieve discomfort from teething, • Helps with congestion, gas, and colic • Enhances release of growth hormones which helps weight gain. • Reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Stimulates all of the physiological systems. Massage sparks the neurons in their brains to grow and branch out to encompass other neurons. |
Benefits for Parents
It is never too late to begin massage. Evidence-based practice supports the use of infant massage. Whether your baby is a newborn or several years old, massage can bring immediate and lasting results. Expectant parents often take infant massage instruction in advance so they are ready to begin right from the start. Benefits for parents and primary caregivers include: • Parent-infant bonding and attachment • Encourages pre-verbal communication between caregiver and infant • Helps parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children • Helps working parents ease their stress if they are separated from their children • Provides parents with one-on-one quiet time or interactive play with their children • Creates a regular time of intimacy between parent and child. • Increases parents' self-esteem by reinforcing and enhancing their skills • Gives parents the tools for understanding their child's unique rhythms and patterns • Teaches parents how to read their infants' cues and states of awareness • Gives parents a special way to interact with their children who may be • Helps parents feel a greater part of the healing process • Daily massage helps parents to unwind and relax • Provides a positive way for fathers to interact with their infants/children |