Parent Infant Massage
A Time for both Baby and Caregiver
Open classes weekly, Wednesdays 10:30am - 12pm with Morgan Smith,
Lower Haight @ Thriving Wellness.
The health benefits of Infant massage are plenty, ranging from supporting the growth of baby's neurological, physical and relational development. Parent - Infant Massage also teaches parents new strategies to soothe their baby helping with sleep, digestive, or colicky issues. This unique approach to massage creates an opportunity to develop secure parent- infant attachment in an environment that allows the parent to unwind and be with their baby in a new way.
Benefits of Infant Massage for baby:
Helps with circulation, digestion, colic, fussiness and sleep.
Offers parents new soothing strategies, especially helpful to dad's as the option to breast feeding isn't there.
Improves muscle tone, relaxation and babies sense of his/her own body awareness
Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
Benefits of infant massage for parents:
Provides a means of unwinding and special bonding time for you and your baby.
Recognize child's states of alertness and relationship to contact.
Learn babies signals and language through touch.
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.
Offers community for parents in a supportive environment.
Benefits of Infant Massage for baby:
Helps with circulation, digestion, colic, fussiness and sleep.
Offers parents new soothing strategies, especially helpful to dad's as the option to breast feeding isn't there.
Improves muscle tone, relaxation and babies sense of his/her own body awareness
Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
Benefits of infant massage for parents:
Provides a means of unwinding and special bonding time for you and your baby.
Recognize child's states of alertness and relationship to contact.
Learn babies signals and language through touch.
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.
Offers community for parents in a supportive environment.
