Infant massage provides so many benefits for baby and parent. Studies are frequently done to show that massaging your baby improves both mental and physical health for you and baby. Not only that, but it’s fun and soothing for the both of you. In this post, I’ve listed just some of the benefits you and your baby can receive from infant massage.

By massaging your baby on a regular basis, you will:

• Create a great way to include dad in the bonding experience
• Improve his immune system
• Increase circulation
• Help him learn to relax
• Promote better and longer sleep
• Provide a bonding experience and communication with you
• Aid in the growth and tone of muscles
• Help regulate his digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems
• Help ease pain from gas and teething
• Help relieve discomfort of colic, and chest and sinus congestion
• Reduce stress

You can also benefit from infant massage along with your baby. These important benefits include:

• Providing a special bonding moment with your baby
• Helping you learn to read your baby’s cues better
• Increasing your self-confidence as a parent
• Helping you to communicate better with your baby
• Helping you relieve your baby’s stress and discomfort which also reduces your own stress
• Helping to ease your own separation anxiety if you were away from your baby for a period of time
• Relaxing both you and your baby
• Improving post partum depression

Again, these are just some of the benefits provided by infant massage. Performing infant massage on your baby daily will give you short term and long term results, promoting good health and development, and a great relationship.
In future posts, I will be writing about how to give your baby a massage, so make sure to bookmark our site and keep coming back for more information.

The next step is preparing for infant massage.