Let's Connect: Baby Massage

Baby Massage has many benefits for babies and their parents, from helping babies to feel loved, soothed and secure to benefits for physiological health.

Parents feel more confident about handling their baby and have an increased understanding of the signs and signals their baby uses to communicate. By providing an opportunity to relax and have fun with their baby, baby massage increases the opportunity for bonding experiences, enhancing feelings of closeness with their baby, so that their relationship may strengthen and grow.

We know that the first two years of a baby’s life is a crucial period for brain development. Baby’s brains are receiving information all of the time, from how they are being cared for and what they hear, see, smell, feel and taste. Lots of connections are being made and during Baby Massage, we share with parents the important role they have in helping their baby’s brain grow.
 

Healthy Little Minds are offering baby massage as a group-based intervention and on a one-one basis in the home. 

Our qualified massage teachers work together with parents to help develop confidence and understanding of:

•    The best time to massage their baby, through awareness of the six sleep/ awake states
•    Contra-indications to massage
•    Recognising their baby’s non-verbal cues
•    How to perform massage strokes correctly and safely
•    Their baby’s emotional states, to provide a nurturing and sensitive response