About Infant Massage
Welcome! If you’re looking to create a strong bond with your baby, Infant Massage presents an excellent opportunity. In our Infant Massage classes, you will confidently learn how to massage your infant (from birth to 12 months) while enhancing your ability to understand and communicate with your child.
Do you want to help your baby sleep better and deeper? Is your baby dealing with gas, colic, or constipation? Massage might be a helpful tool! In our classes, we will explore key topics like recognizing baby cues, the benefits of Infant Massage, effective techniques for soothing a crying child, stress and relaxation techniques, massaging your growing child, and much more. Join us and empower yourself with this essential knowledge!
Massaging your baby is wonderful and gratifying for both your baby and yourself! As caregivers, we continuously seek to strengthen our bond with our infants. We want to understand them better and strive to soothe our baby when she is distressed. Infant massage is a perfect, loving way to learn how to listen to communicate with your infant through verbal and non-verbal communication. It promotes bonding, secure attachment, and develops trust and confidence!
This practice not only alleviate common discomforts such as gas, colic, growing pains, teething discomfort and excess of mucus but also promotes deeper and more soundly sleep for infants and children. They are calmer, and it stimulates their circulatory and digestive systems, learning and concentration, as well as mind and body awareness.
Parents, in turn, are usually less stressed, and it can help with postpartum depression for both mothers and fathers. It is a way for all parents to have a regular time of intimacy with their child.
For further information regarding the benefits of Infant Massage, we encourage you to visit the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) website and the Infant Massage USA website.
The IAIM recommends learning infant through five classes. This amount of time is typically needed to feel confident and to continue massaging your baby after the course is completed. You can find more explanations about it here.
A Certified Educator of Infant Massage will never massage babies during classes. We demonstrate the strokes with a baby-sized doll. Parents massage their own babies to better learn and adjust to their child. Parents are the experts on their babies.