Welcome to Massaging Babies...

I invite you to join me on my 5 session Baby Massage Course, available within the Yorkshire area.

Touch, in the form of infant massage, offers a way of communication and bonding right at the very start of the parent / baby relationship.

Massaging your baby offers that special time when you and your baby can spend “one to one” time with each other. Massage is one of the oldest forms of healing.

Massaging Babies Video Introduction

Here are some of the many benefits of Baby Massage:

Baby

• Helps immune system
• Helps digestion and elimination
• Can improve muscle tone, joint mobility, skin texture
• Can aid healthy development
• Can relieve colic
• Can reduce crying
• Promotes good sleep
• Can ease nasal congestion and teething pains
• Helps the baby become aware of their body
• Aids relaxation
• Sensory stimulation, making baby more alert
• Improves the baby’s nervous system
• Aids parent/infant bonding
• A way of feeling secure and love

Mother

• Empowering
• Releases endorphins, the bodys natural painkillers and feel good chemicals
• Encourages observation skills of your baby
• Can help with postnatal depression
• Helps the bonding process

Above all it helps lower stress for both parents and baby. Baby massage is a time to express love.

Baby massage has only recently become known in the West
and studies on the benefits, particularly on
premature babies, continue.