Monday, June 27, 2011

Massage helps babies to grow up quickly

The love of massage for babies is very important, just gently massage just talk or can open the music soothing to the baby.

Conditions for conducting massage

When you massage your baby should be in the environment is warm, comfortable baby is placed. Do not massage when baby is hungry or has just finished eating it. Hands of the massage to warm, smooth, nails cut short, no ring to avoid damaging the baby's skin. Can apply a bit of skin oil palms of children.



Calligraphy began to gently, then sharply up, not necessarily for her to feel uncomfortable, pay attention not to use excessive force should not be too light. The order removed from the head to face, neck, chest, abdomen, extremities and the back. In the beginning, each massage your baby as long as 5 minutes, then increase gradually from 15 to 20 minutes, 2 times per day.

Massage is not a mechanical operation which is the exchange of emotional mother, along with baby massage, skin, hands the mother will feel the stimulation from your baby's delicate skin.

The meaning of massage

Massage can promote the development of the child:

Check that 42 days after birth weight, body length, head circumference of children who are massage increased significantly compared to those without the massage.

During the massage, the mother and child will have exchanges with their eyes, the mother often through soft voice or melodic music to chatting with you, this may promote nervous system child's development. Through long observation, we found that motor skills (such as first pick, flip the) children's massage from birth to develop earlier than children who are not massage, capacity to adapt to their surroundings (such as familiar, crying, babbling self-talk) is developing faster than the kids do not massage.

Massage increases the resistance of children:

Many studies have shown that massage can enhance immunity, increase the immune material in the body for the baby. Today, massage has been used as a measure of care with patients. For children whose wheezing, after 20 minutes of massage, the illness was in remission, mental state was stable.

Observed after the massage she will sleep very well, woke up crying, but not very good. The sleeping baby after the massage will sleep and rest.

The massage movements

Arm massage: put baby on back, the thumb of her left hand placed between the palm of her left hand, the other fingers lightly holding her hand. Use your hands to gently massage, slowly from her wrist to shoulder. Likewise with the baby's right arm, each side to 6 to 8 times.

Foot massage: put babies on their backs, holding her left hand slightly to the baby's heel. Three thumb, pointer, middle of her right hand into a circle to rotate slowly from the heels up to her knees, doing 5 to 6 times so, then switch to the other leg.

Clear back: put her stomach, her left hand grabbed her leg, using his palms to his mother gently removed from her buttocks to neck. Or you can use your forefinger and thumb of both hands lightly pinch the skin from the buttocks to her spine, making 6 to 8 times.

Remove the foot: put baby on back, left hand holding her right heel of her, her right hand gently massage from the heel to the abdomen legs 5-6 times, then removed from the ankle up to scratch baby pillow 5-6 times. Change hands and remove the other leg the same way.

2 comments:

  1. There are so many opinions about message...but generally I have observed the baby sleep well after message.It does help them relax and feel comfortable. Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

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  2. Thanks for sharing those info about the benefits of massage to babies. Your post really gives insight to the readers especially to all parents there.
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    Krisha
    pediatric emr

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