Vital Sense promotes the use of positive nurturing
touch in families with infants and young
children, through Infant Massage Classes
Massage is a touch you do with your baby, not to your baby. It's an interaction, not a task. You learn which strokes your baby enjoys and, as if dancing, go with the flow of your baby's body language. While it is nearly impossible to rub your baby the wrong way, come and learn the right touch for your baby.
Benefits of Massage
(for babies, mums and dads)
- Infant-Parent attachment or "bonding"*
- Relaxation
- Makes 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.)
* Bonding is: love, security, connection, acceptance, peace, caring, happiness, interaction, empathy, unity, warmth, joy, communication and familiarity. Bonding may be experienced through eye contact, touch, smell, taste and listening
"Bonding is a unique relationship between two people. It is specific and endures through time."
Carol is a professional Certified Infant Massage Instructor who trained with The International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) in 2000 and is currently on the National Committee of the Association.
If you live in the Croydon area please contact us for details of the next course
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