infant massage benefits
- Provides the opportunity to enhance bonding and relationships
- Empowers parents by expanding knowledge and parenting skills
- Teaches practical skills – using hands for positive healthy touch
- Supports parents by providing positive feedback and increasing confidence
- Helps improve handling and caring skills of baby
- Enhances weight gain and healthy muscle and brain development
- Strengthens the body’s immune, digestion and circulation systems
- Relieves baby’s colic, constipation or elimination problems
- Relaxes parents and infants (decreases stress hormones)
- Increases body awareness – for both baby and parent
- Promotes deeper sleep, which improves the quality of sleep
- All babies and families are welcome!