This course will identify the benefits of infant massage and describe techniques used in infant massage.
What will you learn in this course?
Know the benefits of infant massage
Learn infant massage techniques
Perform a basic infant massage on your baby
Benefits of infant massage: For the infant
Gives mommies tools for quality time.
Gives mommies a way to have a close bond even if the child, whether you are a stay at home mom or a mom who works.
Gives mommies of divorce a way to keep the bond intact.
It creates more compassion for your child.
It creates children who know themselves.
It creates children who know their self-worth.
It creates a healthier child.
Benefits for infants
Help foster mom-infant bonding as a result of intimate interaction.
Relieves pain and discomfort from teething, congestion, gas, and colic.
It helps to improve digestion by activating the relaxation response.
Prompts the nervous system through the stimulation of the skin. It helps with speeding the myelination of the nerves and improving neurological development.
Boost blood flow, ensuring that oxygen and nutrients reach the infant's cells and tissues.
It slows down and deepens the respiration response rate.
It helps to enhance muscle tone through the activation of sensory and motor neurons.
Assist in speech and language development while talking to an infant during the massage.
It promotes deeper and longer sleep for the baby.
Benefits for Mommies
Assist moms in acquiring self-assurance and self-respect in their mothering roles.
Boost and reinforce mothering skills and validate your roll.
Help ease the stress of “working mom guilt” by renewing the connection with your baby.
Offer moms time to relax by providing focused time and attention with your baby.
Help increase the mommy's ability to relax the child in a time of stress.
Help release the pituitary hormone prolactin. In women, prolactin is involved in milk production and may help foster maternal feelings.
Enhance communication between the mommy and infant.
It helps moms learn to read infant behavior.
Importance of Bonding
A solid connection between mommy and child that nourished the infant on a core level, the process that attaches the infant to reality.
Skin to skin contact
Scent
Eye contact
Warmth
The biorhythmic activity that existed between mother & baby in utero.