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!