Infant Massage

Would you like to learn to massage your baby? Come enjoy our parent baby classes. They are an excellent way to learn this loving way to communicate with your baby.

Our mission is to promote nurturing touch through training, education, and research so that babies, parents, and caregivers are loved, valued, and respected throughout the world community.

Benefits of Infant Massage for BabyInfant Massage Feet

    Infant-Parent attachment or “bonding”
    Relaxation
    Helps baby feel loved
    Promotes better sleep
    Facilitates body awareness
    Boosts immune system
    Sensory stimulation
    Improves skin condition
    Improves blood circulation
    Helps digestion
    Balances respiration
    Relief for teething pains
    Help waste elimination
    Helps build parents’ and baby’s self-esteem
    Helps you learn about your baby (their needs and desires)
    Relaxes parents
    Pleasurable experience
    Stimulates production of oxytocin (Oxytocin is a hormone which can be produced by both male and female persons during massage. It is useful as a pain reliever and has a calming effect on the person.)

Benefits of Infant Massage for Parents

  • Caregivers report feeling more comfortable and confident in their ability to care for baby.
  • Parents learn to understand and respond to baby’s cues.
  • Parents learn techniques to comfort, calm and soothe their babies.
  • Provides an additional avenue for close and nurturing contact.
  • Infant Massage is one of the most natural and pleasant methods of providing this important early nurturing and an amazing tool for helping parents become closer to their babies.

Infant Massage provides these benefits in 4 distinct ways:Infant Massage Arms

Stimulating

Stimulates all the systems of the body including the:

  • Nervous system
  • Circulatory system
  • Respiratory System
  • Elimination System
  • Immune System

Relaxing

  • Helps relieve tension built up from all the stimulation in the baby’s environment
  • Helps babies handle sensory stimulation and respond in a relaxed manner
  • Helps babies sleep better
  • Helps regulate sleep/wake cycle

Relief

  • Touch combined with vocalization helps reduce pain levels up to 80%
  • Helps tone digestive tract
  • Helps alleviate gas and promote elimination
  • Releases hormones for food absorption.
  • Releases endorphins, natural pain killers, to ease emotional distress

Bonding and Attachment

  • Infant massage draws on all the elements of bonding and attachment
  • Eye-to-eye contact, skin-to-skin, body scent, vocalization, taste, responsiveness
  • Hormones stimulated by infant massage promote bonding and attachment between parent and baby

Come enjoy the many benefits of massaging your baby and meet other new parents!

Why attend a class?

Our courses are taught over a number of weeks, normally 4 – 6 weeks, to give both the parent and baby time to learn and become comfortable with the massage. Each week parents learn strokes for a new part of the body while reviewing strokes from previous classes. So new strokes are learned and previous information is reinforced.  We teach a little at a time to ensure that you are confident with every aspect.

The strokes and styles of baby massage are easier to grasp when demonstrated by our experienced instructors. Pressure, rate, rhythm, the length of the massage, respect, bonding, why baby cries, baby’s body language, positioning of the baby, relaxation and parent empowerment are some of the skills and topics that will be discussed.  

What’s a class like?

  • Our classes are held in small groups to ensure personalized attention.
  • Classes are baby led.  In our classes, it’s okay for babies to cry!
  • Supportive group sessions where parents can share experiences and learn from each other while having fun.
  • Recommended age for group classes is from birth to pre-crawling. 

Class Cost:

$80.00 per month (4 classes)

or

$100.00 per month (4 classes and child care)