Learn Infant Massage

Bond | Strengthen | Nuture

Benefits

Benefits of
Infant Massage

Touch is our most primal sense and is associated with the largest organ in the human body—our skin. Of all the senses to develop, touch is the first and begins before the baby is born. In the first few months of life, touch is used more often than hearing, sight, or smell as a way to learn about the physical world and to develop close, meaningful relationships. Touch is a powerful communicator because it often mirrors our own feelings toward another individual. Ultimately, infants are able to sense how their parents feel about them by the manner in which they are touched.

Infant’s Benefits

Improves circulation, digestion, and organization
Reduces muscular tension
Decreased fisting and shoulder reaction
Enhances awareness of being loved, accepted and safe
Reduces fussiness
Helps baby learn to relax
Improves sleep
Increased sense of well-being
Strengthens the development of GI and respiratory tract
Reduces the symptoms of constipation, colic and gas
Helps relax tight muscles
Helps stimulate muscle tone for hypotonic babies
Increases baby’s ability to maintain a functional alert state
Helps babies learn to accept and tolerate positive touch (especially for babies who have been hospitalized)
Increases ability to gain weight
Helps baby sleep longer and deeper
Helps regulate tactile hyper or hypo sensitivity
Improved eye contact and socialization

Bond, Strengthen, Nurture

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Parents

Infant massage is a wonderful way to bond with your infant and boost your confidence in parenting. Learning these massages will also help to strengthen and nurture your infant. There are a total of 5 massage lessons – each targeting a specific area. These lessons are taught once per week for 5 consecutive weeks, with each lesson running 60 to 90 minutes.

Parent’s Benefits

An opportunity to connect and share quality time
Education in how to touch and respond to baby in nurturing ways
Promotes parent infant bonding/attachment
Increases confidence in parenting
Increases prolactin production-the nurturing hormone
Decreases postpartum depression
Positive effects on other relationships, including partner and children

About Ellie

Ellie Perez is a certified infant massage instructor. She received her certification through Infant Massage USA. and International Association of Infant Massage. Her 20+ experience working in the special education field has allowed her to gain tools and strategies to help parents navigate through their infants growing stages. A mother herself, she understands the concerns, worries, and stresses of parenthood. Infant massage will help you bond with your little one, as well as give you the confidence and tools you need to nurture and strengthen your child’s emotional, physical and mental development.