Please bring your baby and join us for this fun class. You will learn the benefits of infant massage and how to massage your baby as well. This class includes informational materials and oils. Parents only need to bring baby and a blanket to lay the baby on.

This class is for toddlers 13m-3yrs!

Benefits of Infant Massage for Baby

• Infant-Parent attachment or “bonding”
• Relaxation
• Helps 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.)

Benefits of Infant Massage for Parents

• Caregivers report feeling more comfortable and confident in their ability to care for baby.
• Parents learn to understand and respond to baby’s cues.
• Parents learn techniques to comfort, calm and soothe their babies.
• Provides an additional avenue for close and nurturing contact.
• Infant Massage is one of the most natural and pleasant methods of providing this important early nurturing and an amazing tool for helping parents become closer to their babies.

Infant massage stimulates all the systems of the body including the:

• Nervous system
• Circulatory system
• Respiratory System
• Elimination System
• Immune System