Baby Massage Explained
What is a baby massage?
- Baby massage is based on the same principles as adult yoga; breathing, stretching and relaxation.
- Infant massage helps babies to stretch and move and to discover their abilities and bodies.
- Yoga helps create a balance between the body and mind.
What are the benefits of baby massage?
- Baby massages can help boost circulation and digestion,
- Infant Massage helps strengthen joints and muscles
- Infant Massage can encourage the body’s removal of waste and toxins
- It can help relieve colic, constipation, teething. If you have had a baby with colic you know what a benefit it is to find something that helps with relief the pain for the infant and the anxiety for the parents
- Baby Massage can be of help the baby to sleep longer – always a favourite with the parents!
- Helps with creating a bond between mother and baby. It gives them a place and a time to be together, free from the worries and pressures of everyday life.
- Infant massages are relaxing for both mother and baby
- Baby massage aids the growth and development of your baby
Lastly, baby massage can enjoyable for both the baby and parents (dads can do baby massages as well as mothers)
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Preparation for infant massage
Timing
- Try to establish a regular routine for your infant massage
- Choose a time when you are both relaxed to do the baby massage, do rush the massage
- Don’t give the infant before meals when the baby is hungry or just after meals when the baby has a full stomach
Setting
- Make sure that you are both comfortable on either a bed or on a blanket or towel on the floor
- The room should be warm. If it is cold, you can cover the parts of the baby that you are not massaging.
- Lighting – you don’t want the room too bright, and make sure that your baby doesn’t have the light shinning in their eyes
- Baby Massages should be done with massage oil – vegtable oil or plant oil are normally recommended. How do you choose the right massage oil? << Read More>>
Baby Massages are not exclusive to mothers. Dad’s can experience the benefits of infant massage |
