Seattle Health Blog

Nothing better than a massage to take care of your baby. To relax, and show all your love and affection. Infant massage has a name: Shantala. Known as therapeutic massage for children. Its origin lies in India, where a Frenchman obstetrician, Dr. F. Leboyer, was watching a mother massaging your baby.

The doctor was delighted with the strength of their movements, and the benefits they gave the baby, and decided to import the west and baptize the entire sequence of movements with the name of the woman: Shantala. Since then the massage is part of many corporate behavior.

According to Dr. F. Leboyer, be loaded, rocked, caressed, touched, massaged, each one of those things is food to young children, so indispensable, but more than just vitamins, minerals and proteins. If he is deprived of all that, and the smell and voice so well known to the child, even when fed milk, it will starve.

Infant massage done with children to be calm, gain strength in the body peacefully in sleep, and have a positive psychological development. One of the favorite moments of the babies. During the massage, babies feel a nice feeling because it’s not just the touch of fur, but also to feel sensations through hearing, smell and vision.

If massage is part of a daily routine, the baby will know, for example, that after bathing and before you put your clothes, someone (either the mother or father or someone else) will provide long-awaited moment. Hearing his mother rubbing his hands with oil or cream, the baby will now be prepared to live the pleasant experience of massage.

In these few minutes, the baby will find peace and enjoy the enormous pleasure. Most babies love physical contact. No wonder that massages have a very calming and relaxing effect to them.

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