Baby massage:love touch to your baby
You have a baby? Massage ever? or just your own routine to do the massage on your baby? Infant massage is a traditional cultural heritage of several countries, seems to have the benefits we need to consider. Various countries such as India, Indonesia and some have a habit of falling-down of baby massage. Baby massage performed by, mother, grandmother or midwife.
At the present time and even baby massage has become routine in some health centers.
Some sources claim that baby massage is also known as touch stimulus has many advantages, including reducing infant crying habits, increasing weight, easy to make babies sleep, practice eye contact with the mother, reducing stress on the baby, also helps the baby to pee major (abdominal massage).
Research experts at the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1986, led by Tiffany M Field PhD, showed that premature babies are massaged regularly every day to show the physical and emotional development are better than babies who are not massaged. Weight premature infants massaged reply to increase in body weight 20 to 40 percent compared to the massaged babies. Good news that babies are massaged for five days, the body resistance to increase by 40 percent compared to babies who are not massaged.
Massage the baby was not only affect the physical and emotional growth in babies. There is also a state if done by the father for example, then that baby massage can increase breast milk production is also often called the father of “empowerment“. But what explanation? Here’s the story:As a father of the baby massage initiative, it will lead to positive feelings on his wife. Initiative husband makes the wife feel loved, comfortable, and other positive feelings. And feeling like this will stimulate the production of the hormone oxytocin. To note, this hormone is very useful to facilitate milk production. Studies show that 80% of the hormone oxytocin is affected by maternal psychological condition.
In addition, baby massage will make quick hungry baby. The more breast milk sucked by the baby (breastfeeding), the production increased. This is because the production process applies breast milk supply and demand law. That is, the more breast milk was issued, many more are produced. And vice versa.
Massage technique is not so important, what matters is the touch on baby’s skin is made of soft and warm during the massage, the frequency of massage performed on a regular basis. This baby massage infant massage is not as done traditionally in some countries with fairly strong pressure d. Massage is meant here is more to just wipe the movement, which carried out a soft, slow and warm.
You can train this baby massage slowly and bit by bit if you want to do baby massage on your own child. Before doing baby massage, prepare yourself, your baby and supporting around. The following steps need to be considered:
* Washing hands with soap. Keep as clean as possible.
* Avoid the nails and jewelry that can scratch the baby skin. If your nails a little long, preferably cut and blunted tip.
* Room for a warm massage and try not stuffy. If possible with soft music and making small volumes to provide ‘background noise’ alone.
* The baby has finished eating or not being hungry.
* Try not to be disturbed within approximately fifteen minutes to do the massage.
* Lay the baby flat on the soft cloth and clean.
* Sit in a comfortable position.
* Before the massage, ask for permission to babies by stroking his face as he started talking.
Some baby massage’s way you can do to your baby as it is written below. But do not forget to do it as gently and as warm as possible by looking into the baby’s eyes with love.
1. Breast
Open palms into the baby’s chest, then slide it into the top right diagonal, then back to the middle, top left, back to the middle. Bottom left, back to the middle, bottom right, back to the middle.
2. Thighs and calves
Hold your baby’s thighs with both hands. Play from the inside out, moving down towards the calf. Back to the top with the same movement.
3. Feet
Massage your foot from the heel to the toes. Squeeze my fingers one by one. Massage your foot, from ankle to the toes.
4. Face
Massage starting from the middle toward the left side, then center to right side.
5. Stomach
massage by writing letters in the word “I Love U” on the baby’s stomach. Use 2 or 3 fingers, which form letter from the baby’s ILU. When the positions we form letter I - L - U inverted. The following stages massage:
* Sort of a baby left under the ribs to the bottom (letter I)
* Sort cross from right to left baby baby, then down to the bottom (L)
* Sort the bottom right baby, up to the right of the baby, the curved shape of U and down again to the left of the baby. All the movement ended in the left abdomen babies.
6. Hand
Massage from the base of the arm, then down to the hand,. Then come back massaged by hand to the base of the arm.
There is also a procedure done with a slightly different but overall was similar. Consider the following steps:
* Massage feet
Begin by holding the baby’s feet to the groin like how to hold a softball bat. Move your hand down in turn like milk and play.
Hold the groin with his hand wringing and simultaneously play the baby’s feet gently from the groin to the ankle. Then, your feet massaged with two thumbs alternately starting from the heel to the soles of the feet. Massage your toes one by one by turning off the palm, ending tug gently at each end of the finger. Then, squeeze and twist the ankle with your thumb and other fingers. Wipe baby’s feet with gentle pressure from the groin to the end.
* Baby’s stomach
Massage the baby’s stomach from top to bottom like a bicycle pedaling motion. Abdominal massage began the top left to bottom with your fingers to form the letters I and L reversed.
* Massage the chest
Start the upward movement until the bottom of the neck and then to the left and right side above the clavicle to form the heart of the image and then back to solar plexus. Diagonal movement in the chest (the letter X) from left to right.
* Massage your baby’s arm
Squeeze and play with both hands gently from shoulder to wrist. Massage the palm of the hand with the thumb from the palm to the fingers. Wipe the back of his hand from the wrist to the fingers gently. Squeeze around the wrist with his thumb and forefinger.
* Massage the face
Put your thumb between the baby’s eyebrows. Massage with your thumb gently on the brow and above the eyelids. Massage from the mid-eyebrow downward through the side of the fold nose.
* Massage your back
Lay your baby crosswise. Back massage with movement back and forth along the back starting from the bottom up to the neck. Make a circular motion with your fingers begin to limit back up to the bottom
the solution is to massage (massage) baby. Lately baby massage began favored by mothers for the perceived benefits to the baby. Rarely sick, eat lots, sleep regularly and agile are some benefits derived from baby massage. Infant massage has actually done the mothers for centuries and hereditary but the frequency of regular baby massage is not there a couple of times a month to once a month and some are even two months of doing massage, but most of the mothers is doing the massage when the baby is sick. massage also simple to capitalize oil (wasps, telon). Start massage baby and 30-45 minute time range and in the process the baby cries inconsolably. Recent research reveals that many of the benefits gained by baby massage. Infant massage helps stimulate the immune (innate) in infants is able to help fight infection. Special baby massage techniques can help eliminate colic (stomach), in the wind and constipation, in addition to soothe and reduce pain in babies, massage also stimulates the endorphin hormone which discharge can decrease pain that the baby becomes calm and reduce the frequency of crying, so improving the quality and sleep quantity
Baby massage also increases absorption of nutrients into the body and more calming the nervous system, the result can reduce allergies. Massage helps babies sleep pattern became regular, massage make her comfortable and reassuring. Infant massage can also improve family relationships with parents baby, the baby will feel safe, comfortable with both parents. And the massage can be done by the father (not absolute mother), so there is a relationship of affection on her baby’s father. Another effect that if the parents baby massage will be done quickly or reduce the frequency adaptation crying. Massage can be done anywhere but try in the room which your baby comfortable (away from the crowds), 1-2 a day may be times you pick a time is usually done before a bath (adjusted with the baby’s condition), the selected oil to use baby oil, oil wasp or telon. Perform massage gently and correctly (the right selection techniques). Long 20-30 minute massage adjust to the situation and conditions of both (mother and baby).
Before you do consult a doctor massages your child or your therapist to know the techniques of the right (for purpose of massage is reached).
Infant massage is often called the stimulus is very useful touch. Since birth, the baby has three requirements that must be met by parents, ie: physical-biological needs are useful for brain development, sensory and motor systems. Emotional needs of affection for emotional intelligence, inter and intrapersonal. Stimulation and the need to stimulate all the sensory system works and motor.
Main benefits
1. Develop communication
Touch is the first form of communication with your baby. Touch of a baby means to speak. Baby massage attachment aspects of eye contact, smile at each other and other facial expressions.
2.Reduce stress and pressure
Massage can soothe and reduce the production of adrenal hormones which in turn will increase the baby’s immune system. Resistance generally increases the baby’s body after a massage 30% 2 times for 15 minutes.
3. Reduce pain disorders
Massage can also help the baby expel the symptoms of bloating, colic and help him sleep better. Not only that, the massage also facilitate the circulation of air in the stomach so as to help remove trapped gas there.
4. Reduce pain
Gentle massage helps the body release oxytocin and endorphins. Both these hormones can help overcome the discomfort due to the small teething pain, nasal congestion or emotional stress.
When is the right time to do baby massage?
The best age to introduce massage is when babies aged 0 to 12 months. While the best time for massaging is early morning in the evening so your baby can fall asleep with a deep sleep.
Things to note
Do not rub the baby after she eats or sleepy. Try to create an atmosphere as comfortable as possible, to do in an atmosphere of fun with the sound of music or singing. Not recommended massage directly after eating, waking the baby for a massage, baby massage when not so healthy, and to impose certain position when massaged.
Tags: baby massage, oxytocin, positive feelings
