Baby massage

Massage is the oldest known healing art, predating all orthodox medicine and other complementary therapies. It has been around for centuries and should not be under estimated.

Massage is unique in being both a healing technique and an instinctive means of communication, i.e., comfort, reassurance, relaxation, pain relief and communication. Without positive touch we can become withdrawn, bad tempered, depressed and stressed.

Babies need the familiar sensation of constant reassuring touch after they enter the world. Massage will help to create a close bond between mother, father and baby. It assists in both the physiological and emotional development of the child.

Evidence suggests that babies receiving massage from the parent have less health problems than other children. Massage will help your baby develop focus and concentration - a skill they can tap into later on in life to help eliminate stress and even help them during exam times.

THE HEALTH BENEFITS

• Massage will aid the stimulation of your baby's own innate immunity, increasing the white blood cell count so helping them fight infection.
• Digestion and elimination is improved.
• Specific massage techniques will help significantly eliminate colic, wind and constipation, soothing and aiding pain relief to your baby.
• Massage will also enhance the assimilation of nutrients.
• Massage will calm the nervous system, resulting in less irritability.
• Massage will aid regular and longer sleeping patterns.
• Massage will stimulate speech development and all developmental skills.
• Massage gives great comfort and reassurance to your baby.
• Massage releases the body's own natural pain endorphins which is soothing to teething babies.
• Positive touch will deepen the special bond between parent and child.
• Positive touch is a natural powerful healing tool. With the right guidance you can learn how to massage your child correctly. Enjoy this bonding experience with your baby.

Jenna Robins, Holistic Massage Therapist and Teacher of Baby Massage of 17 years, cannot stress to parents enough, the positive health benefits of regular baby massage.

Please see the contact for baby massage venue and course details. For long distance UK and international home visit baby massage lessons please also see the contact page.

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Special needs and sensory stimulation

Baby massage is a fantastic way to stimulate all your child's senses and development, i.e, touch, sight, smell (with pleasant herbal oils) taste, speech, sound, mood, focus and concentration are all stimulated.

Massage techniques can be calming and will relax and slow your baby down and aid sleep - or massages can stimulate your baby to invigorate them and make all systems go!

Massage will help stimulate your baby's own natural pain endorphins increasing there immunity.

Jenna teaches private baby massage sessions in the The Sensory Room at Kids Allowed

Massage stimulating muscles and ligaments like a passive work out on the body. Massage will stimulate your baby's developmental skills such as hand to eye coordination, balance, movement and speech.

Relaxing natural sounds are played to your child while you learn massage. If you maintain close eye contact while you massage your baby and talk to your child by mimicking their sounds, you will aid their speech development.

The room will also stimulate your child's sight with soft moving coloured light on the walls, safe playful fibre optic lights and textures with bubbling water tubes filled with all the colours of the rainbow.

Cushions are used with different textures for your child to feel.

The Sensory Room at Kids Allowed Allowed Nursey, Cheadle and Didsbury, is a warm relaxing and safe environment.

Special babies and children

Massage can be used to help with specific conditions such as Downs Syndrome, ADD, Autism, Hyperactivity, Hyper Sensitivity. Blind, deaf and dumb babies and children can all benefit from regular massage.

With continual massage treatments and some perseverance, traumatised toddlers, children and teenagers with behavioural problems can all benefit from professional massage therapy.

Jenna's aim is to teach you, the parent the required massage skills to massage your child safely and correctly, to help them feel calm, relaxed and nurtured. The parent will learn these skills in the Sensory Room at Kids Allowed, a safe, warm, relaxing environment, with soothing music and visual stimulation.

Jenna will treat all teenagers in her clinical therapy rooms at Water Lane Clinic or The Lavender Tree. Both are professional and relaxed therapy room environments, with soothing music and calming essential oils to scent the rooms.