Benefits of Infant Massage (for baby/child)

"Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for an infant, food as necessary as minerals, vitamins and proteins."

Dr. Frederick Lebuyers

 

Benefits are:

• Bonding
• Relaxation- longer and better sleep patterns, produces oxytocin and reduces cortisol
• Communication- provides special time for learning verbal and non verbal cues
• Physical Development - healthy weight gain, muscle tone, improves blood circulation, digestion, inner equilibrium (balance), cardiac and respiratory function, nerve and brain function, and helps the immune system
• Helpful for tummy aches, colic, constipation and nausea
• Fun

 

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