What are the benefits of baby massage?

Infant massage is essential. It is a medical method. The benefits of infant massage are numerous for both children and adults. Massaging children during infancy can reduce aggressive behavior in children as they grow up and enhance the relationship between parents and children.

1. Helps improve sleep quality

Newborns often have irregular sleep cycles and are easily awakened at night. Various medical studies have found that these problems can be effectively improved through baby touch and massage. Because touching the baby can stimulate the increase of "melatonin" concentration in the blood, helping the baby to establish a sleep cycle and regulate the day and night rhythm.

2. Promote gastrointestinal motility

Abdominal bloating and hiccups are common in babies after feeding. The traditional way to relieve the problem is to pat the baby's back for twenty to thirty minutes. However, studies have found that massaging the baby's abdomen for about three to five minutes in a clockwise direction, in the direction of gastrointestinal digestion, helps the baby's gastrointestinal motility, which is more effective than the traditional way of patting the back.

3. Helps stabilize emotions

The development of the baby's brain has already begun in the fetal period, and touch is the earliest sensory organ to develop. The fetus can suck its fingers while in the mother's womb. If the mother has severe stress problems, the rate of the fetus sucking its fingers will increase. The fetus can obviously relieve and reduce its own stress through the skin touch of sucking its fingers. Touch massage can stimulate the receptors at the nerve endings, causing nerve impulses that are transmitted to the brain through the spinal cord, making people feel relaxed and comfortable. Therefore, through touch, not only can the child's sensory organs be stimulated, but also emotional responses can be regulated to achieve a state of balance.

4. Stimulate hearing and vision

When parents touch their children, in addition to the feeling of the skin, they can talk to their children or sing to them. While the baby is feeling the pleasure of touch, he or she can also concentrate on listening and observing the expressions and voices of the parents, and be exposed to auditory and visual stimulation at the same time.

5. Enhance parent-child relationships

Nowadays, dual-income families and nuclear families are very common, and the interaction between parents and children has decreased significantly. Based on the experience of the United Kingdom, for families with newborns, the local government actively trains parents to do infant massage. Many parents say that massaging the baby is a very pleasant experience and it seems that the children like it very much. Touching your baby's skin for ten to twenty minutes every day is the best way to enhance parent-child bonding.