Infant Massage

Touch is the first form of communication your baby receives at birth.  It is an important part of bonding with your child.  Thus, infant massage is a great way to welcome your baby into this world, and to nurture the relationship between you and your child.  There are many benefits of infant massage to you and your child.  Some  of these benefits are listed below.

Benefits to your baby:  

• Improves immune system

• Teaches baby how to relax

• Promotes longer and more restful sleeping patterns for baby

• Enhances digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems

• Relieves discomfort from gas and colic, congestions, and teething

• Promotes connection between baby and parent or caregiver

• Increases baby’s sense of love, security, and trust

Benefits to you:  

• Empowers parents to feel confident in caring for baby

• Allows parents to learn, and better understand and respond to baby’s non-verbal communications

• Creates an opportunity to spend quality time with baby

• Relaxes both parent and baby

• Longer, more restful sleep for you

• For mothers, helps to reduce postpartum depression

IN INFANT MASSAGE YOU WILL LEARN:

• Why touch/massage is critical during the first years of your child’s life

• How to create a stronger connection between you and your baby and raise your awareness of your child’s body

• Massage techniques to increase circulation, reduce colic, and promote better sleep patterns at night

This is a private one-on-one course and 

dates and times may be arranged to suit your needs.