Gentle place your baby on a flat, soft surface inside a warm room.  Apply baby oil or lotion on your hands for a warm touch.

Smile Massage- Simply stretch your baby’s lips upward to form a smile.  To release facial tension from all the sucking, teething and crying.

Moon Massage- On your baby’s stomach, place your right hand on the stomach and the left hand below.  Move  both hands in circular motion.  To ease digestion and relieves your baby from constipation problems.

Butterfly Massage- While holding the shoulder with one hand, move your other hand diagonally across the chest starting from below the ribs.  It can improve circulation, heart beat and breathing.

Back and Forth Massage- Move your hands in opposite direction while going up and down the spine.  It develops his muscles for spine support.

Squeeze and Twist Massage- Release tension and tone his arm muscles.

A massage is best especially if your baby is unwell.  Bathe him every massage to freshen him up.  Giving your everyday “gentle touch” will surely pass each night away in peaceful slumber.

Infants, too, need a daily dose of gentle massage.  Loving touch from mothers hand solidifies the natural bonding between the mother and the child.  Massage helps babies to relax, tone his muscles and improve his body systems.

Massage,  applying pressure on the body through careful strokes to improve health is not only for adults.  It is also beneficial to babies.  Studies shows that massage help babies fell asleep within 9 minutes; relieved colic and boosted their immune system.  It also helps in gaining weight especially for the babies who are born premature, babies became more active, had no metabolic problems and were able to maintain normal body temperature.

It is advisable to massage infants 3 times daily to help them gain weight and became more responsive.  Infant massage is a wonderful bonding tool for parents and babies.  Massage is something that a parent does with their baby in a way like no other means of interaction can.