The Loving Touch Parent-Infant Massage Program is a parent enrichment program that cultivates love, compassion, respect, & well-being for infants and children through touch.
Why Take Parent / Infant Massage Classes?
- Increase self esteem for child and parent
- Promotes bonding and attachment
- Increases sense of love, acceptance, respect and trust
- For baby, improves body awareness
- Improves relaxation and release of stress
- Stimulates circulation
- Strengthens digestive circulatory and gastrointestinal systems, which can lead to better weight gain
- Reduces discomfort due to teething, colic, gas, congestion
- Increases elimination, circulation, respiration
- Improves hormonal activity
- Improves synchrony between child and caregiver
- For parents, it improves their ability to react to infant cues
- Increases confidence in parenting skills
- Provides time to share and quality time together
- Improves sense of well-being for parent, reduces stress and blood pressure and improves overall health