Baby Massage Therapy Newborns Infants and Toddlers

Baby Massage Therapy Newborns Infants and Toddlers

Baby massage is a holistic approach to baby health and child rearing. Infant massage combines the tender touch of a nurturer with specific movements and techniques designed to improve the health of any child from infants to toddlers and beyond.

This baby massage video takes the viewer through step-by-step instructions by breaking down the massage process into easy to follow directions. This video makes baby massage an easy process to learn providing a simple way to make a great connection and provide significant health benefits to your baby.

Baby massage provides vital bonding and health benefits. Below are just some of the many benefits of infant massage:

• Improves circulation • Enhances senses • Fosters trust in parents • Reduces stress • Improves digestion • Assists drainage of lymphatic fluid • Enhances the immune system • Enhances physical and psychological development • Helps sleep pattern • Helps to increase oxygen flow • Removes toxins • Helps develop muscle tone • Aids pain relief from many baby maladies • Enhances release of hormones • Facilitates parental bonding through nurturing • Helps parent feel more confident and connected • Affords fathers a positive bonding experience

Early psychological development is directly tied to bonding and touch. This video teaches that touch is a vital need for healthy baby development. Touch is an elemental need and an essential component for proper growth and development.

Infant massage is preventive medicine from the earliest stages of life. Understanding the importance of touch and beginning significant healing touch early in life will improve the quality of life for both the child and the parent. Baby massage is an excellent way to promote the well-being of children.

Baby massage is the perfect alternative to medicine and drugs by aiding the baby’s own immune system. All that is needed is the caring touch of a parent and this baby massage instructional video as a guide.

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5 Stars i like this video
i think this is a good video. i bought this for my sister and she loves it. she things its very good too

5 Stars An amazing vid
An amazing video I happen to know for a fact that my sister, her husband and most importantly, my niece is really benefiting from…I highly recommend this very informative video for your own kids or even as a gift.

5 Stars Bonding
Remember the rocker? Well this Massage DVD is one step above. You can see and feel the love. Well done!!!!

5 Stars Very Pleased With Baby Massage Therapy
I want to say how happy I am I bought this DVD. It’s a healthy way to bond with my baby and she’s so much happier since I’ve started massaging her. She sleeps much better and is now sleeping through the night when I give her a massage before bedtime. You can tell she looks forward to our time together. I will continue these sessions as she grows and matures as I feel it’s a wonderful way to stay close to her. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I wish my mom had done this for me as a child.

5 Stars Excellent massage aid and present!
I just recently got this video and wanted to say how pleased I was with its quality and competence of instruction. I had been looking for an affordable, decent video on infant massage to learn some techniques to use on my newborn when I ran across this one. It showed me how to give my newborn massage therapy, and increased our bonding experience. It will also be good for showing me how to perform massage through the toddler years, as it teaches several different techniques.

She really enjoyed the massage techniques used in the video when I practiced them on her legs and feet. I also bought a copy for my friend (who has a child of similar age) and she loves it.

I would recommend this video to every parent…thanks again and good job!

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On Becoming Baby Wise Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep On Becoming

On Becoming Baby Wise Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep On Becoming

The infant management concepts presented in this book have found favor with over two million parents and twice as many contented babies. On Becoming Babywise brings hope to the tired and bewildered parents looking for an alternative to sleepless nights and fussy babies. The Babywise Parent Directed Feeding concept has enough structure to bring security and order to your baby’s world, yet enough flexibility to give mom freedom to respond to any need at any time. It teaches parents how to lovingly guide their baby’s day rather than be guided or enslaved to the infant’s unknown needs. The information contained within On Becoming Babywise is loaded with success. Comprehensive breast-feeding follow-up surveys spanning three countries, of mothers using the PDF method verify that as a result of the PDF concepts, 88% breast-feed, compared to the national average of only 54% (from the National Center for Health Statistics). Of these breast-feeding mothers, 80% of them breast-feed exclusively without a formula complement. And while 70% of our mothers are still breast-feeding after six months, the national average encourage to follow demand feeding without any guidelines is only 20%. The mean average time of breast-feeding for PDF moms is 33 1/2 weeks, well above the national average. Over 50% of PDF mothers extend their breast-feeding toward and well into the first year. Added to these statistics is another critical factor. The average breast-fed PDF baby sleeps continuously through night seven to eight hours between weeks seven and nine. Healthy sleep in infants is analogous to healthy growth and development. Find out for yourself why a world of parents and pediatricians utilize the concepts found in On Becoming Babywise.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Hands down the best parenting book ever
Of all of the recommendations, advice, and gifts that we received with the birth of our first child, nothing beats this book. THIS BOOK REALLY WORKS. Our baby slept through the night at 6 weeks old and has never looked back. I am not a believer in the “quick fix/magical” approach to anything. This book is a common sense approach to sleep. It’s not an extremist methodology. I would recommend it to absolutely anyone. It is hands down the best of all of the parenting books I’ve read.

1 Star baby wise by a schedule
I am a new mom, and bought this book based on its endorsements on the cover. After reading through the book, I became more anxious about feeding and sleeping than before I read it. He talked about ‘hyperscheduling’ as being a bad thing, and proposed a better solution… which looked just like hyperscheduling. Basically, feed the baby every 2.5-3hrs using a clock and time sheet. I didn’t need to buy a book to tell me that.

4 Stars Great book because it worked. But I wasn’t sure I applied it right.
I read the book before my son was born and when I was trying to incorporate the ideas in the first few weeks of his life, it was very difficult (maybe due to my lack of sleep). I felt like I wasn’t getting it. Then after about 6 weeks, my son started loosing weight, due to different feeding complications (none of it due to the book and its teaching), so the lactation consultant told me I had to feed my son every 3 hours. It was wonderful. Before my son didn’t seem to get into a schedule and maybe it was me doing something wrong, so I was always unsure when he would eat next or sleep. I did keep the same idea of eat, play and sleep for my son and he fell into a great pattern and routine. It continues to this day and he started sleeping through the night consistently at 8 weeks. He had slept 6 hours at night from about 4 weeks, so I will definitely use the principles of Babywise for my next child, as he is an excellent sleeping and napper.

I highly recommend it

2 Stars Theory good-as a whole terrible!
I just finished Babywise as I starred at my non-napping 10 month old baby who refuses to nap anywhere but in a swing, carseat, or while being worn who was giggling in his swing. Do I have a problem with this? NO! He’s the happiest baby in the world. If he doesn’t follow a “flexible schedule” (really a rigid schedule that if you’re traveling or baby is sick you’re allowed to feed your baby more often than every 2 1/2-3 hours).

Why did I read the book? It was given to me by my mom on a referral from a neighbor. She didn’t know anything about it. I heard about it and decided to read it to see how it compares to my general following of Attachment Parenting.

I do not look down on any parenting style besides beating your child, neglect, etc. I do want to share a couple thoughts though…I was VERY angry when I read that if I wanted a fussy child that I would respond to my baby’s cries, wear it in a sling, etc, etc. AY YI YI!!! Like I said-my son is the HAPPIEST baby ever. He was worn in a sling, wrap, etc from the beginning and I always respond to his cries. He was colicky in the beginning but is SO not a fussy baby. This book is SO negative about Attachment Parenting and has it made up in his mind that AP parents wear their babies 24-7, feed baby only when it shows hunger signs even if 10 hours pass, etc, etc. I say everything in moderation. The theory of a “flexible schedule” is a good theory-make sure baby gets fed often enough, has a bedtime (not 6 PM one night 4 AM the next which is kinda the feeling I got that he thinks AP parents do), etc. BUT “flexible schedule” is contradicted a ton when he says stuff like DO NOT feed your baby more often than every 2.5-3 hrs unless ABC or D happens.

What I got from it? I knew most of the stuff because of experiencing it about making sure baby gets enough feedings, etc. I do feel he isn’t extremely supportive of breastfeeding when there’s a couple page section on how wonderful bottle feeding is and how you shouldn’t deprive a father of feeding his baby. I also feel he needs to TALK to some AP parents and maybe he’ll have a broader view (but he seems like a pretty close minded person).

Bottom Line? You don’t have to follow or believe everything you read and sometimes it’s cool to see other perspectives. Everything in moderation. I encourage anyone that reads the Baby Wise books to also read Dr. Sear’s books about Attachment Parenting and to keep an open mind about all parenting theories. Following your mothering instincts and draw from all of it :)!

1 Star Please do yourself and your mothers intuition a favor and don’t buy it
Please, please just burn it.

This is the worst book imaginable about listening to your baby and responding to him/her appropriately.

Babies are born to be held, they are born to be loved… love them. There is no reason to put your baby on a strict schedule like this. All babies eventually evolve into a normal biological sleeping pattern similar to waking at 7am napping at 9, waking again, napping at 1 and sleeping at 7pm. It’s natural and biological and happens to every human baby around the world. Don’t give up yet. Just give your baby time and your baby will adjust. This is precious time, they will grow up before you know it and you will be sleeping again. Love them!

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