Find out about the benefits of baby massage and get some tips and advice on how to massage your baby.
Touch and massage can really help you to bond with your baby, it engages their senses and encourages their happy, healthy development.
Regularly massaging your baby is a way to give them much more:
- more bonding time
- more sensory stimulation
- more healthy development.
Research reveals that routine touch and massage by a parent or loving caregiver are critical to a baby’s growth, communication and learning.
Find some tips and advice on baby massage in this short 1-minute 'How to massage a baby' YouTube video.
The benefits of regular massage may include:
- Help you and your baby understand each other better
- Soothes babies and reduces crying
- Aids digestion and helps relieve colic, wind and constipation
- Helps babies to sleep more deeply and for longer
- Relieves nasal congestion and teething discomfort
- Helps develop good muscle tone, co-ordination and suppleness
- Enhances body awareness
- Boosts the immune system
- Improves skin texture
- Helps calm and relax both parent and baby
- Boosts parents’ confidence in handling their baby
Shaz and baby Layla show you how to give a soothing baby massage in this 3-minute YouTube video.
For further information, tips and techniques, go to Massaging your baby (Johnson's Baby)