Baby Massage and Benefits

Tips for Health It's not just adults who need a massage, your baby will need to be massaged. Massage your baby (baby massage) can be useful to overcome problems and make your baby feel relaxed. Massage your baby massage is not the same as in adults, given the pressure may be just as touching for adults. But this baby massage has many benefits.

Benefits can be obtained from infant massage is to help the circulation and neurological development, helps to overcome sleep problems in babies, to help increase appetite, stimulate the sensory system, stimulating growth hormone, making infants became more relaxed and of course it could strengthen the relationship between the infant with his parents.

"Massage your baby can also delay development problems, to detect physical disorders, hyperactivity, sleep disturbances and difficulty eating and to cope with children with disorders of the syndrome," said Theresia Berliana, AMF, physiotherapist from Eastwest Physiotherapy Clinic & Rehabilitation, when found detikHealth, Wednesday (9/9/2009).

This baby massage can be done since the 1-month-old infant to 2 years, if it is more than that is more focused on the direction of movement.

Generally parents came to the physiotherapist with a complaint against her baby and then physiotherapist to find out what the problem is and what should be done to overcome them. For the less problems then the baby's appetite will be stimulated to affect the hormones in the body.

"For that a therapist should know the stages of what must pass the baby from birth until he could walk and talk," says physiotherapist graduates of this Christian University of Indonesia.

In babies who have problems with breathing or the lungs are usually equipped with evaporation treatment (Nebulizer), but this treatment should be based on physician referrals to determine the dose of the drug to be used.

Parents can also do a baby massage at home once a day for relaxation. Here are some tips on infant massage:

1. Not allowed to do baby massage when baby is eating or after feeding, try to at least one hour before or after doing so.
2. Should be done before the baby shower, and then continued with the bath so that the baby will feel more refreshed.
3. Keep children in comfortable circumstances and should not be in a state of crying.
4. Levels given the same emphasis as an adult with eyelids touched, so as it caressed.
5. Massaging your baby from the top or head downward.


Berliana added each baby to go through all stages of development to the front when I was 5 or 6 years will not be hurt in terms of reading, writing or socialization.

There is no harm in trying to overcome problems in infants through baby massage techniques. In addition to massage treatments can also make your baby relax and stimulate the development of his body.