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KEY BENEFITS OF BABY
MASSAGE

INTERACTION

  • Communication through touch.

  • Promotion of bonding and secure attachment.

  • Verbal and non-verbal communication.

  • Demonstrating love.

 

STIMULATION

  • Stimulates baby’s major internal systems, aids neurological and physical development.

  • Circulatory.

  • Digestive.

  • Hormones.

  • Immune.

  • Lymphatic.

  • Nervous.

  • Respiratory.

  • Vestibular.

 

RELIEF

 

  • Gas and Colic.

  • Constipation and Elimination.

  • Gastrointestinal cramps.

  • Growing pains.

  • Muscular tension.

  • Teething discomfort.

  • Excess Mucus and nasal congestion.

  • Sensitivity to touch.

  • Physical and Psychological tension.

 

RELAXATION

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  • Help babies and parents relax.

  • Improves sleep patterns.

  • Regulation of behavioural states.

  • Being calm.

  • Reduction in stress (for parent and baby).

  • Increased levels of relaxing (for parents and baby).

  • Less hypersensitivity.

  • Less hyperactivity.

 

BENEFITS FOR PARENT

 

  • Improves ability to read infant cues.

  • Improves synchrony between parent/career and

  • infant.

  • Promotes bonding.

  • Increases confidence in parenting.

  • Increases communication- verbal and non-verbal.

  • Improves relaxation.

  • Provides time to share, quality time.

  • Promotes parenting skills. (Especially 1 st time parents)

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