How to promote baby development with massage
Touching therapeutically is physcially and emotionally helpful. Who doesn’t feel better after a relaxing massage? Well, infant massage fosters good parent-child interaction, helps with eye contact, improves sensory responses and can actually help with muscle tone and development.
When my son was a baby, he developed eczema very early. Eczema is always problematic, but was especially so with my son because he had it around his rectum. The skin would be irritated, cracked and often oozing. As a result, he started to hold back his bowel movements because they were painful when they touched his wounded skin. Elimination problems led to constipation and other gastro-intestinal problems. To help calm my son’s distress I would perform tummy massage and he would calm. Interestingly enough, my son constantly asks to have his tummy rubbed or his back massaged. He is now 6.
Although I am primarily my son’s mom, I am also his therapist. He is ADHD combined type. He is hyperactive and inattentive and spends his days constantly chewing items he shouldnt be chewing. When his kindergarten nap blanket was sent home at the end of the year, it was misshaped and ragged from chewing. He managed to chew the entire blanket! He seeks the input he senses his body needs. I understand his cravings. Massage is one of my favorite techniques for addressing these needs and helping him to get calm and organized. My son loves getting massaged and the interaction strengthens our relationship. Touch used therapeutically helps my son cope. I credit this to starting massage for him when he was a baby.
Massage can help improve infant weight gain and help preemies to thrive. To read this informative article, click here.
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