Benefits of Infant Massage

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Benefits of Infant Massage

Learning infant massage is simple, it is fun, you need little equipment and materials, it cost very little except your time and the loving energy you put into it. The time you spend with your baby is priceless and the connection you develop and the bond you will form is unbreakable. You are allowing time for you and your baby with teaching them the importance of positive touch, and what true love and affection is. You are also teaching your baby that you can help them grow and develop on a loving, caring and organic level of receiving.

Bonding and Attachment

Massage is a beautiful way that allows time for you to bond and connect with your baby through eye contact and positive touch. Learning infant massage helps teach you to learn your baby’s body language and cues. It allows you time to slow down and enjoy the pleasure in creating healthy and strong bonds.

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Colic

Colic is referred to long periods of time when your baby becomes inconsolable, and this pattern can last from two weeks to fourteen weeks of age. The cause of this is unknown, but overtime research has suggested that colic may be an extreme form of normal crying. Studies have found that babies who suffer from colic, their cry is worse in the evenings.
Research has found parents can often feel overwhelmed when they have an inconsolable baby who they have been nursing for hours. This can cause parents to feel stressed, anxious, and exhausted. Certain massage strokes have been created on the abdomen to help create relief and for parents to cope with their baby and the ongoing issue. Massage helps not calm your baby but help parents not to feel inadequate. Massage can help create a stronger bond and boost parent’s confidence in knowing they are doing something to help soothe their baby when in need.

Colic

Digestion

When a baby is born their tiny bodies are still developing as they grow. A baby’s tummy is immature and takes time to grow and build immunity. This can be seen when a baby consumes milk and when a baby learns to digest solids. When using specific massage techniques for digestion this will help with a baby’s bowl movements and if your baby suffers from reflux.

Teething

All babies grow and develop at different stages. Some babies start teething earlier than others. Some babies experience extreme discomfort. Gentle massage technique around your baby’s gum and help ease the pain and teach parents to learn their baby’s body language and cues when teething and what massage techniques are required to help ease their discomfort.

Teething

Meeting New Parents

Becoming a parent especially the first time around there is many emotions from highs to lows. For parents massaging their baby, it helps them with relaxation, developing sensitivity, confidence building and helps build parent child relationships. Through attending regular workshops parents can connect with like-minded parents and experience and opportunity to connect and build a network where new friends can blossom within and outside of the massage classes. These workshops can be also a wonderful way that your baby can connect with other babies and build on their social skills.

Infant Mental Health

When a baby enters this world, for them to survive touch is a necessity for them to thrive physical and emotionally. It has been documented throughout history and more proving research is finding that humans need physical and emotional contact displayed towards them through love and affection displaying the warm embrace of positive touch.

Studies are finding that babies and children who are deprived this love and nurturing state plays a huge effect in their emotional and psychological development. When a baby is not receiving love and affection, it can have major implications in the development for them to grow physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Infant massage is a wonderful way that a parent and baby can build a healthy and trusting bonding between them known as the circle of trust. This is a wonderful opportunity for the baby to learn about positive touch and for the parent to learn about their baby through a bonding processing. Massage also allows time for the parent to learn their baby’s cues.

Infant massage also has so many profound benefits for the overall wellness physically and mentally for all involved. Massage is an extension of our loving touch:

Touch is the first sense developed in the womb.
Babies thrive on a lot of physical contact, this makes them feel relaxed and loved.
Bonding and attachment. Touch ensures bonding between a parent and their baby.
Allows time for you and your baby to connect on a natural, loving, and organic level.

Infant Mental Health

Post-Natal Depression

Infant massage can be a wonderful way where mothers can spend one on one moments getting to know their baby and creating bonding moments. Mothers through massage learn their baby’s body language and cues for which helps aid in better sleep, improves alertness, coordination, builds the immune system and helps relax the mother and their baby.

When a mother experiences motherhood for the first time this is known as Matrescence. This starts from the moment of conception. Matrescence is the journey that a woman grows through when becoming a mother and the transition their body grows through physically, mentally and emotionally along with hormonal transition into motherhood.

See our Sacred Mama Circles to learn more about Matrescence and how we can help nature and guide you through motherhood and help give back love and affection to fill up your cup and self-worth.

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