Baby Massage Course // 8 week course // June & July 2024 2024Thursdays // 2.30pm to 3.40pm
Location: The Meeting House, The Green, Acomb, York, YO26 5LR
"Touch is the simplest and most effective way to communicate to babies they are loved, respected, secure and cared for"
Being massaged helps babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility, improves circulatory and respiratory rhythms, as well as helping to relieve symptoms such as colic, constipation and improve digestion. It also helps you as a parent to learn useful techniques to help calm and relax your baby, create a deep connection to your baby and helps with bonding. It helps facilitate the importance of loving touch, and aids in the creation of happy parent-baby relationships. Massage shows babies they are loved.
Mums also have the opportunity to meet other new mums, and connect and share their experiences, and find a support network who know just how you feel.
All about Baby Massage
Massage is a wonderful and special gift that you can share with your baby. Baby massage is an ancient art used in many diverse cultures to help with a variety of physical and emotional needs and to promote relaxation. Babies naturally crave skin contact. Touch is your baby’s most developed sense at birth and through it you can communicate love, security and trust to your baby immediately.
Baby massage is simply a method that helps to reinforce the natural power of touch.
Baby massage will allow you to understand your baby’s subtle non verbal language and develop your ability to listen to your baby through the creation of a special intimate time together. When you massage your baby you lay down the foundations of trust and security which will help you to build a happy and confident relationship with your baby for the future.
Specific benefits for you and your baby include:
~ Baby massage can help relieve wind, colic, constipation, teething and much more
~ Baby Massage may help create and develop the bond between you and your baby
~ Baby Massage provides relaxation for you both
~ Baby Massage stimulates and supports your baby’s physical, emotional and social development
~ Baby Massages helps you feel more confident in handling your baby
~ Baby Massage is great fun to learn and a brilliant way to meet other parents and spend special time with your baby.
Science and research have confirmed that the use of skin to skin practices, nurturing touch and massage enhances the physical and emotional wellbeing of parents and babies. Studies have repeatedly shown that responsive parenting and attachment is the key to the emotional wellbeing of children. When we massage out babies we are teaching love, compassion, empathy and understanding to create positive early experiences and secure loving relationships. This has an effect on the child, the parent and society as a whole.
About the classes:
Classes are friendly and relaxed and held in a warm and calming setting. Massage techniques and strokes are demonstrated to you using a doll, with emphasis on loving touch, and responding to baby’s cues and communication. You will also learn lovely simple calming relaxation techniques for mums / dads/ carers too.
This course is accredited by FEDANT, the Federation of Antenatal Educators.
In addition to the in person classes, you'll get to take home:
~ A 50ml bottle of organic massage oil
~ A Certificate of completion (a lovely keepsake)
~ A printed full colour booklet of the massage techniques for your reference to use at home
~ A lovely guided relaxation MP3 for mum/dad/caregiver to use at home
~ Unique free online video course of baby massage techniques for you to use at home
Suitable for babies anytime from 5/6 weeks old to crawling.
Do contact me with any questions via PM or email [email protected]
Booking here: https://www.formodernmothers.com/baby-massage
Event Venue
The Meeting House, Acomb Green, YO26 5LR, 27 The Green, York, YO26 5LL, United Kingdom,York
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