Description

Benefits for Babies

• Interactions: Nurturing touch, one-to-one quality time, bonding, verbal/non verbal communications.
• Relaxation: Improve sleep patterns, increased flexibility, reduction of stress levels.
• Relief: can help with gas, colic, constipation & elimination, excess mucus, muscular tension, growing pains. teething discomfort.
• Stimulation of: circulation, hormonal, digestive, inmune, lymphatic systems, muscular development and tone, mind/body awareness, sensory, integration, the connection between neurons.

Benefits for Parents

• A better understanding of their baby.
• Promotion of bonding.
• Reading and respecting cues.
• Procure secure attachement.
• Improvement self-esteem and confidence.
• Enhancement of parenting skills, positive activity.
• Early involvement for fathers.
• A chance to discover the baby’s uniqueness.
• Quality time.
• Decrease in stress hormones.
• Higher levels of relaxing hormones(such a oxytocin and prolactin)
• Stimulates lactation.
• Decrease postnatal depression.