Nature's Path to Health & Wellness
 
Benefits for Baby:

* Promotes bonding and communication
* Assists in overall growth and development
* Promotes sounder and longer sleep
* Improves function of respiratory, circulatory, digestive, eliminative, nervous, and immune systems
* Reduces the symptoms of colic, gas and GI tract distress
* Gives relief from the discomforts of teething and congestion
* Improves sensory awareness
* Helps baby learn to relax, decreases production of stress hormones
* Reduces fussiness
* Enhances awareness of being loved, accepted, and responded to
* Assists in increased vocalizations

Benefits for Parents/Caregivers:

* An opportunity to connect, interact and share quality time
* Builds a bond between parents and children that can last a lifetime
* Increases confidence in parenting
* Helps parents better understand and respond to baby's verbal and nonverbal cues
* Increases parents ability to help relax child at times of stress
* Positive effects on other relationships, including partner or children

Other Benefits:

* Cross cultural studies show that babies who are held, massaged, carried, and rocked, grow into adults that are less aggressive and violent, and are more compassionate and cooperative
* Recent research shows benefits for children with asthma, diabetes, and premature infants
* Mothers with postpartum depression have shown improvement after starting infant massage
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