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Why Massage Your Baby?
Benefits for Baby |
Benefits for Parents |
Other Benefits
Benefits for Baby
- Promotes bonding and communication
- Assists in overall growth and development
- Promotes sounder and longer sleep
- Improves function of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive,
eliminative, nervous, and immune systems
- Reduces the symptoms of colic, gas and GI tract distress
- Gives relief from the discomfort of teething and congestion
- Improves sensory awareness
- Helps baby learn to relax, decreases production of stress hormones
- Reduces fussiness
- Enhances awareness of being loved, accepted, and responded to
- Assists in increased vocalizations
Benefits for Parents/Caregivers
- An opportunity to connect, interact and share quality time
- Builds a bond between parents and children that can last a
lifetime
- Increases confidence in parenting
- Helps parents better understand and respond to baby's verbal
and nonverbal cues
- Increases prolactin production - the nurturing hormone
- Increases parents ability to help relax their child
in times of stress
- Positive effects on other relationships, including partner or
children
Other Benefits
- Cross cultural studies show that babies who are held, massaged,
carried, rocked and breastfed, grow into adults that are less aggressive and
violent, and are more compassionate and cooperative
- Recent research shows benefits for children with asthma,
diabetes, and premature infants
- Mothers with postpartum depression have shown improvement after
starting infant massage
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