What are the Benefits of Massage?

• They know they are loved.
• They know good touch, so they won’t accept bad touch.
• Higher IQ’s.
• Better Individuation
• Promotes Attachment
• Encourages Muscular coordination
• Helps baby to open and straighten arms and legs
• Massage helps with digestion
• Massage teaches children the concept of hugs not drugs
• Fosters body acceptance and awareness
• Gives baby’s body a chance to release birth issues
• Alleviates anxiety and depression
• Reduces stress hormones
• Reduces pain
• Enhances immune system function
• Facilitates weight gain in preemies
• Relieve colic, constipation, reflux
• Improves sleep patterns
• Increases circulation
• Improves elimination of blood wastes.

To the Family:

• Dad bonds with baby as effectively through massage as Mom does with breastfeeding
• Older children can help, stand by with lotion (and wait for their own turn!)
• Serves as a calming ritual for everyone
• Gives mom and baby a chance to communicate
• Gives Mom a chance to release birth issues
• As children age, touch gives an opportunity to reconnect
• Massage introduces a unique level of confidence and trust between parent and child.

To Society as a whole:

• Well adjusted, well bonded babies grow up to be well adjusted adults

You know you love a massage….Why wouldn’t your baby? You know how much you like to be rubbed-its relaxing, calming and lets the stresses of the day just fade away. Why would your baby have stress?

 That’s easy enough to answer…Babies have to live with us!