Benefits of Mother & Baby Massage
Pregnancy Massage and Post Partum Massage
- alleviates back, neck and shoulder pain due to skeletal shape changes
- reduces discomfort of expanding uterus
- reduces stress and anxiety by improving overall sense of wellbeing
- helps maintain mother’s body sense, helping to prepare mother for childbirth
- increases the time it takes the body return to its non-pregnant form
- it is an hour of time for the mother and nobody else
Infant Massage
- helps infant make transition from being inside the mother to being outside on its own
- can have a calming affect in cases of colic
- gives infant an overall sense of well being
- when taught to parents, gives them another tool to use with their child, one that the child is likely to respond to really well
- can increase development of infant’s with the nerve stimulation of touch, especially with premature infants
- it’s just really fun to do