Benefits of Infant Massage

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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.
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