Baby Massage
Baby Massage | Benefits For Baby | Benefits For The Parent/Caregiver
Baby Massage
Bonding with your baby means forming a unique and close relationship between you and your baby. Eye and skin contact, smell, smiles and soothing vocal sounds, each play a part in the bonding process and are the essential elements of Infant Massage.
Through observing and responding to your baby's smiles, frowns, coos and kicks with nurturing touch, you reinforce feelings of trust and respect. These feelings provide the foundation of your relationship for years to come.
If you are a working parent, massage can compensate for separation by providing a special relaxing time for you and your baby.
For fathers, the nurturing environment and close interaction of massage offers you a special opportunity to develop a deeper bond, parental confidence and handing skills.
In situations where delayed bonding may occur (premature birth, caesarean delivery, medical complications, adoption, post-natal depression) Infant Massage provides the healing environment where you and your baby can re-establish your close relationship.
Benefits For Baby
For baby:
- Improves sleep patterns and your baby is more easily settled.
- Proven relief from the distress of wind, colic and constipation with unique soothing strokes.
- Strengthens immune system functions, increasing resistance to illness.
- Heightens alertness and sociability when your baby is awake.
Benefits For The Parent/Caregiver
- Increases your confidence and skills.
- Creates a relaxing, special time, for you to share with your baby.
- Helps reduce feelings of anxiety and depression.
- Enhances communication and provides a nurturing environment for conversation as your baby grows.
At Fertile Ground Health Group, our experienced Baby Massage Instructors will help you develop massage skills to soothe and nurture your baby and help you gain deeper understanding of your baby's unique signals and needs. Instruction is available within the clinic or in the convenience of your own home. Group sessions also available.
- Each session is individually structured to meet the needs of both you and your baby.
- Instructors demonstrate on life-size dolls. You are then able to follow the strokes with your baby.
- You may require between three and five session of sixty to ninety minutes duration to learn a full sequence at a pace both you and your baby are comfortable with.
- Strokes are taught gradually, allowing development of your confidence, your baby's tolerance levels and enabling the individual needs of each parent and baby to be met.
Contact us more information or to make an appointment with an Baby Massage Instructor.
Fees
1 hour Clinic baby massage instruction $100.00
1 hour Home Visit baby massage instruction $130.00
Group rates available. Please contact the clinic for more information.
Please note our cancellation policy
Meet our Baby Massage Therapists
Recommended Reading
You and Your Bump by Emma Cannon.
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