Abundant wellness aims to improve physical, emotional and psychological well-being of individuals through healing touch of massage therapy.
 

Infant Massage Benefits for Parents/Caregivers

• Provides a positive way for mothers/fathers/caregivers to interact with their infants/children

• Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment

• Encourages pre-verbal communication between mothers/fathers/caregivers and infant

• Assist parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children

• Release parents’ stress

• Provides a quality time for parents interacting with their children

• Enhance parents’ self-esteem by reinforcing and enhancing their skills as parents, and validates their role

• Educate parents how to read their infants’ cues and recognize their states of awareness

 

Infant Massage Benefits for Babies

• Provides a quality time of communication that fosters love, compassion, and respect

• Provides an intimate time for children to confide in parents

• Enhance overall functioning of the gastrointestinal tract

• Enhance babies self-regulate calm

• Strengthen babies’ muscle tone

• Enhances circulation

• Enhances immune system function

• Enhances midline orientation

• Enhances sensory and body awareness

• Enhances neurological development

• Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and more soundly

• Helps to relieve discomfort feeling

• Helps with congestion, gas, and colic

• Helps to weight gain.

• Reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone

• Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.

• Stimulates all of the physiological systems. Massage sparks the neurons in their brains to grow and branch out to encompass other neurons.