How To Massage Your New Baby

Baby body massage is an important part of caring a child. Little body massage is very necessary for promoting better sleep, improving motor skill and soothing colicky babies.it is a great way of enhancing bondage between parents and child.

So before messaging baby’s body, one should know some techniques how to massage. The methods mentioned below is reliable of the babies who are not able to crawl yet. Message your baby’s body with carefulness and knowing and following the instructions.​

Never massage before or after meal

It is not good to massage baby’s body before or after the meal. If anyone strokes her baby’s body just after or before the meal, it will affect the child physically .so every mother has to be sincere about massaging her baby.

Touch the cheek of child and test the reaction

When you are ready to massage your baby, use thick towel and oil for massage. Before starting the massage, let you know the response of your baby touching the cheek of the child. If your child feels uncomfortable, or starts crying. You should not begin the massage. You can use cuddle to soothe your baby instead of massage.​

Let your child lie on open space

It is the best practice to keep your child in the open area. But never forget to spread the warm cloth or towel in the common area. Keep your baby undressed except diaper. Be sure that your child enjoys the massage.​

Knead your baby’s shoulder tightly but not painful way

Try to rub your baby’s shoulder tightly as much as possible. But you have to keep in mind that it is not out of tolerance. You have to practice smoothly and slowly. Try to have your baby always jolly during the massage.

Select the perfect time, perfect duration to have perfection in massage​

It is imperative that you should know which the best time of massage and how much time is perfect of massage. You can massage your baby before going to sleep. The massage will help your baby to have sounder sleep. Half an hour is the best period of massaging your baby. You can do a little more or less. But it is not good to press your baby one hour or more.

Make sure the weather of the room suitable​

When you are going to push your baby’s body, you should be sure that the weather of the place is no too cold. As the child will be kept undressed, there will be the possibility of having cold.so should be sincere about the weather of room so that your baby faces no problem. Rather you should try to mention the best option by which your child feels comfortable.​

Select the most suited edible oil for massage

Before massage your baby, you use the oil on your palm, then start pressing. But you have to be sure that the oil is edible.it is the reason that after massaging your baby’s fingers will enter in your baby’s mouth .if the oil is not easily digestible; it may harm your baby’s stomach. So the most suited edible is must such as avocado oil, olive oil, and others. Just you warm up oil by rubbing it if the oil is cold before applying.​

Gentle rubbing motion is worthy of your baby

As the baby body is soft, you never use the hard pushing during the massage. You should not use the same force as an adult. Rather gently rubbing motion is needed to stimulate the baby’s skin. Obviously, the each and every touch will be soft and smooth as it does not work out knots and deep tissue message.

Massage her head and face​

​After laying your baby on the lovely space, you should let your fingers walk across baby’s head in a circle. Try to draw baby’s jolly mood, you will see that the cheek of your child is somewhat rosy, and face is smiling. Massage your baby in such a way that it is enjoyable to your child.

Massage the chest of baby

Chest massage is an important part of baby’s lungs. First of all, place your open palm, and then gently touch the chest. Try to sweep hand from chest to belly and bring your right hand across the baby chest to the opposite shoulder .at the time of massaging chest, you have to massage smoothly so that your baby never feel any pressure.​

Massage her back

​After massaging most of the parts of the body, you turn gently your baby and let the baby lie on her stomach .massage smoothly from the upward of his back to low part of a body. You should not grip your baby shoulder as adults. Just try to rub the motion from shoulder to lower back.

CONCLUSION

Just going through the instruction of baby’s massage, you can realize how you should press and when you should massage. By following and applying the rules of the message, you can claim, strength your baby. You can help your child to grow in the perfect way both physically and mentally. While massaging you have to use respect touch, and you have to follow whether your baby is able or not .if your child is comfortable, you can continue otherwise stop. Perfect body massage is the perfect medicine for your growing child.​