How do you and your baby benefit from learning therapeutic touch and massage?

Touch can be described as an infant’s first language. Use of healing touching and massage with your baby is a powerful way you can communicate your love and caring. Massage creates feelings of security, comfort, and body awareness within your baby. This supports their emotional and physical development, enhances sleeping and feeding, and strengthens the bond between you and your baby.

Therapeutic touch is particularly beneficial to babies who are challenged with feeding, were born prematurely, as well as those with more complex medical/health backgrounds who benefit from additional developmental support. As an experienced pediatric occupational therapist Juelaine is able to provide special support and therapeutic handling for these babies and assistance for their families.

Therapeutic touch and massage is especially beneficial for:

• Difficulties with feeding

• Premature Infants

• Mothers experiencing postpartum depression

• Adoptive babies and parents

• Babies and mothers who have experienced birth trauma

• Teenage parents

• Babies and mothers recovering from substance addiction

• Babies with complex medical history or developmental differences

What you will learn:

You will learn how to use touch techniques and massage with your infant for all areas of your baby's body.

You will learn to soothe digestion, enhance feeding and sleep, and encourage muscle balance and strength. You will enhance your relationship and communication with your baby.