Infant Massage:

Relaxes Infant: Loving touch lessens tension, fussiness and irritability. It calms anxiety and emotional stress. Digestion is aided and this can provide relief of gas and colic. Massage is also a wonderful way to lessen stress in parent and baby.

Enhances Bonding: Promotes parent-infant bonding by contact with all of the senses. Touch conveys nurturing and love, the essential ingredients for emotional and physical growth and well being.

Aids Growth and Development: Studies have shown infant massage can reduce colic and other GI tract illness by helping to disperse gas, ease muscle spasm, tone the digestive system. Massage stimulates the immune, circulatory, nervous and digestive systems and help to allow them to work more efficiently.

Promotes Communication. Helps communication between parent and infant Parents become more aware of baby’s nonverbal cues. One-on-one communication instills a massage of love and security.

Improves Baby’s Sleep. As your infant learns to relax and release stress, sounder and longer sleep is often the end result.

Encourages Movement: Infant massage has been shown to enhance gross motor development, as it encourages movement and coordination.

Suitable for Infants 0-6 months

1 Session per week for a 3 week period.