Baby Massage

For optimal growth, mental stimulation is needed. This stimulation can be done through baby massage. This gentle touch will make the baby calm and comfortable. It was nice to have a healthy and intelligent child.

Baby massage is a very important activity carried out for the baby, because it has positive benefits for growth that can be started in infants aged one week.

Massage will give comfort to the baby so they can improve the quality of sleep, especially if done while listening to soft music for growing kids to enjoy. Baby message is also beneficial blood circulation, the child became more cheerful, and the growth becomes faster.

Many other benefits can be obtained from the massage, among others, to help reduce the problem Colic or crying babies. Massage can also strengthen the relationship between babies and the parents, help babies develop a first language, increase appetite and can detect abnormalities in the process of growing up.

Massage also serves to help babies relax both local and general. A massage area will occur reflexively dilate blood vessels, where blood circulation will increase. It’s just to do massage in a place that is not much wind, for fear the baby will catch cold.

Baby massage movement can be started from the head, the face, and hands (from the fingers to the upper arm), legs, chest and abdomen, back and buttocks. Levels given the same emphasis as an adult with eyelids touched, so as it caressed.

The time required to perform a baby massage approximately half an hour and not more than an hour, because the massage done when the baby naked. And if the baby was not comfortable look, the massage can be stopped.