BABY MASSAGE
BABY MASSAGE
It is never too late to introduce massage. Whether your baby is a newborn or a few years old, massage can bring immediate and lasting results.
Expectant parents who take infant massage instruction in advance are ready to begin this wonderful loving bond through touch right from the start.
With each program you will receive relevant handouts and video clips to help you to continue growing the bond between parent and child.
Holding and Reassurance Programme – From early days/weeks
• Encourages baby to open from a foetal position to relax more and helps to deepen your baby’s breathing volume and relax your baby’s tummy to improve their digestion and disposition.
• Promotes good posture by helping to strengthen baby’s back and encourages your baby to lift their head.
• Encourages baby to bring his/her arms in front of their shoulders to make tummy time more comfortable.
• Encourages baby to relax their tummy (an emotional centre), to improve their digestion, relaxation and temperament.
Developmental Baby Massage Programme – From 8-10 weeks
Promoting your baby’s development through touch and massage
Benefits:
• Maintains and promotes emotional attachment and confidence in handling and being held
• Encourages and promotes circulation to warm and relax your baby’s legs and feet
• Stimulates ascending and descending colon to encourage an easier digestive system and a more relaxed baby
• Relaxes baby’s tummy to ease anxiety, colic and other tummy ailments which can upset your baby
• Opens front of chest and shoulders, which helps to deepen breathing volume
• Helps to keep baby’s heels down and spread the baby’s feet securely on the floor to stand and walk with confidence and security
• Helps to strengthen, and promote a strong straight back
• Develops a strong structural foundation and more self-confidence
• Encourages a wide variety of versatile movement and good balance
• Ensures full flexibility of joints including spine, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles
• Strengthens spine, hands, arms, shoulders and back.
• Maintains and promotes flexibility while your baby strengthens.
If your baby has any ongoing medical condition – Have you consulted your baby’s physician? Please do.
ELEMENTARY DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY
If your baby has; Head lag, Stiff arms or stiff legs, I would need you to inform me as I can tailor your massage session/programme to suit your babies needs.
IF YOU HAVE REASON TO SUSPECT YOUR BABY HAS A PROBLEM BEFORE YOU BEGIN CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR/CONSULTANT
Introduction to natural carrier oils, essential oils and aromatherapy for baby, included.
Fees:
1∙2∙1 Baby massage session £50 for 1 hour or £80 for 2 hours in the comfort of your home.
5 week bookings starting from £200.
To enquire on how you can book a group session, a private 1∙2∙1 session or a skype session with me, look no further, simply click CONTACT RUTH below to request more information.
Click to read the countless benefits of baby massage for baby and parents.
Benefits for baby:
• Provides a special time of communication that fosters love, compassion, and respect
• Improves general well-being
• Provides an intimate time for children to confide in parents
• Improves overall functioning of the gastrointestinal tract
• Promotes relaxation and helps babies self-regulate calm, which reduces crying
• Helps to normalize muscle tone
• Improves circulation
• Enhances immune system function
• Improves midline orientation
• Helps to improve sensory and body awareness
• Enhances neurological development
• Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and more soundly
• Helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells. Improves respiration
• Helps to improve pain management and can relieve discomfort from teething,
• Helps with congestion, gas, colic and reflux.
• Enhances release of hormones in the body. The growth hormone can be stimulated which helps weight gain.
• Reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone
• Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
• Stimulates all of the physiological systems. Massage sparks the neurons in their brains to grow and branch out to encompass other neurons.
Benefits for Parents:
• Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
• Encourages pre-verbal communication between caregiver and infant
• Helps parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children
• Helps parents to ease their stress if they are a working parent and must be separated from their children for extended periods during the day
• Provides parents with one-on-one quiet time or interactive play with their children
• Creates a regular time of intimacy between parent and child.
• Increases parents’ self-esteem by reinforcing and enhancing their skills as parents, and validates their role
• Gives parents the tools for understanding their child’s unique rhythms and patterns
• Teaches parents how to read their infants’ cues and recognize their states of awareness
• Gives parents a special way to interact with their children who may be hospitalized. Helps parents feel a greater part of the healing process
• Daily massage helps parents to unwind and relax
• Provides a positive way for fathers to interact with their infants/children
• Promotes social and emotional development furthering self-awareness and self-regulation
Providing tender loving care to your baby through touch is magical!
“Every Mother Matters!”
