Benefits
Performing baby massage can have many benefits for both you and your baby.
Benefits for your baby:
- Promotes relaxation
- Improves quality of sleep
- Assists a baby to settle and adapt to new environments
- Enhances the feeling of being secure and loved
- Develops your baby’s first sense of interaction through touch
- Helps general growth, co-ordination, flexibility and cognitive development
- Stimulates the lymphatic, respiratory, vestibular and nervous systems
- Decrease the symptoms associated with colic, constipation, wind and cramps.
Benefits for parents:
- Assists with increasing confidence in handling your baby
- Helps you to understand your baby through touch
- Allows you to feel more in control
- Improves lactation through the production of prolactin
- Gives you the knowledge of what you can do to make our baby happy
- Will give you a more relaxing night’s sleep
- Stimulates the production of oxytocin, increasing your nurturing instinct
- Decreases the risk of developing post-natal depression
