Infant Massage

Infant MassageInfant Massage benefits for baby, parents and society are numerous. A few of the benefits are listed here. For a better understanding of these benefits, I encourage taking a class and reading material related to infant massage research and attachment parenting issues.

Benefits for Infants

  • Improves immune system
  • Helps baby learn to relax
  • Promotes sounder and longer sleep
  • Promotes positive body image
  • Promotes bonding and communication
  • Helps to regulate digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems
  • Helps relieve discomfort from gas and colic, congestion, and teething
  • Decreases production of stress hormones

    Benefits for Parents

  • Provides a special focused time that helps deepen bonding
  • Helps parents to understand and respond appropriately to baby's nonverbal cues
  • Promotes feelings of competence and confidence in caring for baby
  • Improves parent-infant communication
  • Increases parents' ability to help child relax in times of stress
  • Eases stress of parent who must be separated from child during the day
  • It is fun and relaxing for parents to massage their children

    Other Benefits

  • Cross cultural studies show that babies who are held, massaged, carried, rocked and breast fed, grow into adults that are less aggressive and violent, and are more compassionate and cooperative
  • Recent research shows benefits for premature infants, children with asthma, diabetes, and certain skin disorders.
  • Mothers with post partum depression have shown improvement after starting infant massage
  • Teenage mothers have shown improved bonding behavior and interactions with their infants


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