Parents with their baby can attend sessions where they will
be guided through a series of massage strokes.
They can use these strokes on their
baby to calm them and help their muscles relax into a more stretched out and
lengthened posture after their early curled up position.
Baby massage tuition
is also a wonderful way to help parents bond more fully with their baby, helping
their baby gain a sense of self in the world it has entered.
The Importance of Baby Massage
Touch is the first sense to develop from seven weeks in
utero therefore baby massage is important as it uses this sense to
soothe and stimulate the new born.
The new born's nervous system is not fully developed and gradually
developed from the spine to the periphery. The brain doubles
in size in the first year and kidneys double in weight in the first
six months. Massage helps to improve the circulation throughout
the baby’s body at this time of rapid development.
It can also help to:
• Alleviate sleep problems and Colic
• Encourage the digestive system to adjust more fully
• Aid immune system function
• Encourage blood flow and lymphatic drainage.
• Aid all the developing body systems
• Make the baby feel stable and strong
• Reduce cortisol levels (stress hormone) and increase oxytocin & endorphine levels (natural pain killers).
These levels when set in early babyhood remain with them throughout their life and with massage on a regular basis it has been shown that babies develop into more confident children and adults.