Baby Massage, one of the easiest and most effective methods of early interaction with your baby, has tremendous benefits for both you and your baby. Through your healing touch you communicate love, security and comfort to your child. In addition to the physical benefits for your baby, massage helps you tune into your baby''s body language and learn to interpret his moods, feelings and needs. As you become intimately acquainted with the look and feel of your baby's body, you'll be better able to detect changes and problems. As you teach him how to relax, you're preparing him to face the world with an early stress prevention program that will be invaluable in the years to come.

Benefits for Baby

• Enhances communication and nurtures the parent-child bond


• Relaxes & soothes baby's nervous system


• Strengthens and regulates baby's respiratory, circulatory & gastrointestinal functions


• Relieves gas and constipation


• Reduces colic


• Reduces pain associated with teething


• Helps baby sleep better


• Improves baby's muscle tone and motor skills


• Promotes faster weight gain


• Enhances baby's sense of touch & provides a wealth of fascinating sensory experiences


• Stimulates the brain and contributes to mental growth & development


• Promotes a healthy body awareness & self-confidence

Recent News!

In a study conducted by Dr. Tiffany Field at the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, twenty premature babies who were massaged for 15-minutes, three times a day for two weeks, gained 47% more weight and were discharged six days earlier from the hospital, with a hospital cost savings of $10,000 per infant, than babies who were not massaged. The babies who were massaged appeared more alert and active, and showed more mature neurological development than babies who were not massaged.

Benefits for Parents

• Promotes Parent-Child Bonding


• Enhances intimacy, understanding & parents' ability to nurture.


• Improves communication with your baby


• Involves fathers


• Fathers today are taking an increasing interest child-rearing and baby massage
provides an opportunity for him to be more involved in the active care and nurturing of his baby. Just as nursing helps mothers bond with their baby, baby massage helps fathers literally keep in touch and bond with their newborns.

• Helps parents of premature and special needs babies who remained in the hospital after birth.


• At home, you can use the same massage techniques that many hospitals use to ease the physical discomforts your baby may experience. Massage is extremely beneficial for premature babies who have been separated from their mother, and also for special-needs infants whose mental, visual, hearing or developmental impairments make bonding more difficult.


• Helps parents with babies in daycare. Time spent reconnecting through massage can help parents focus back on home life and help baby feel secure and supported.