• Benefits for baby

  Promotes bonding and attachment through eye-to-eye contact, touch, voice, smell, movement and shared experience.
  Helps baby regulate behavioral states.
  Helps baby sleep deeper/sounder.
  Improves blood circulation.
  Helps digestions
  Helps assimilate nutrition better
  Promotes baby's self-esteem and positive self image
  Stimulates a healthy immune system.
  Promotes body awareness.
  Helps relieve discomfort from gas, colic and constipation.
  Can help with congestion.
  Promotes myelination of the brain/nervous system.
  Helps normalize muscle tone.
  Improves respiration.
  Enhances neurological development
  Reduces levels of cortisol ‚stress hormone.

• Benefits for parents

  Helps parent feel more confident and competent in caring for their baby.
  Helps parents reconnect with their baby if they have been away during the day.
  Give parents the opportunity to observe the baby's cues, response and learn their personality.
  Helps parents unwind and relax
  Provides another activity to do with the baby.
  Empowers a parent to know their baby's cues and responses.
  

• Benefits for society

  As stated on the front page, in societies where infant are held, massaged, rocked, breastfed and carried, adults are less aggressive and violent, more cooperative and compassionate.

With this in mind, if infants are nurtured and cared for, as adults they are assets to the community and are contributing to society through a positive work ethic. This benefits their family, school, community and nation. What exciting results from parents investing 15 minutes a day.

Research has proven many benefits of infant massage. Researchers such Tiffany Field at the Touch Research Institute in Miami Florida, Vonda Jump at Utah State University, Doug Teti at Penn State University have demonstrated the many benefits for babies, physically, emotionally and through neurobiology.