Baby massage ideas

Baby massage is rhythmic stroking of your babies body with your hand as gently as you can. Doctors often advise mothers to gently massage the fingers, ankles and the wrists of their babies during the routine massage process. Mother to baby massage stimulates the production of the Oxytocin hormone that increase your affection to you baby and your baby to you. The benefits of massaging your baby range from helping you have an easy motherhood and also helping your child develop and grow healthily.

The gentle strokes help to relax you child and therefore gives them a chance to sleep more and cry less, this definitely will reduce the burden of parenting your baby at its infancy. On more heath matters for your baby, massage helps in brain development and also it has been proven to have a significant positive effect in reducing postnatal depression for the mother. Massaging your baby should be a routine part of your early parenting and the best time you can do that is when your baby is neither too hungry nor too full.

In case you cannot be able to determine when this time is you can massage your child before bed time probably after a bath. Just like normal massage, you need to get a good massage oil that is recommended by your midwife just to remove the chance of allergic reactions. Baby massage should be gentle and not prolonged probably it should take 10-15 minutes maximum. The benefits of baby massage are very significant in the development of the baby and you need to make it a routine process.