Phone: 6362 7899
INFANT MASSAGE
Benefits of touch with newborns and infants include:
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"The first time I met my son I was told I was not allowed to touch him, to hold him or comfort him as he laid in a neo-natal intensive care bed recovering from a traumatic birth. This memory haunted me until I was able to learn infant massage with my daughter and teach it to others as part of my Diploma of Remedial Massage qualification.
Becoming a parent is a wonderful occasion with infant massage a fantastic tool for any parent and caregiver as it allows you to bond with your child, learn things about each other along the way and it can also help with physical and neurological development.
Not knowing that I could have safely held and massaged my new born became a very large barrier to overcome and my infant massage classes are aimed at brand new and expectant parents in the hope that everyone can feel comfortable with their child and learn to trust their instincts, getting to know their child's personality from their first days, developing your own language and bonds that will last a lifetime.
My daughter was six months old when I first learnt infant massage, she became our class mascot for the subject and consequently ended up receiving three massages a day for a week and wanted the process to be kept up for many weeks following! She was also born with only one working kidney. An ultrasound at six months old showed no growth in one kidney between birth and six months. During six months of daily infant massage she only allowed me to massage her legs and complete reflexology massage on her feet, subsequently at her twelve month ultrasound both of her kidneys were the same size and functioning normally, a result I attribute to the reflexology component of infant massage."
Angela Slattery