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Engaging with your baby through massage incorporates all the elements of parent–child bonding as it stimulates your little one’s senses through skin contact, eye contact and your familiar smell as well as hearing your voice and experiencing a focused response. This loving interaction and sensory experience is hardwiring your baby’s immature brain for emotional and neurological development: as you touch and talk to your child and share eye contact, you stimulate the development of connections between nerve cells in your baby’s brain that will form foundations for thinking, feeling and learning.
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Stroking your baby’s silky skin, meeting her trusting gaze and taking turns at listening to her ‘coos’ and ‘goos’ then responding, telling her, ‘your tiny toes are like little pink peas’ or ‘your legs are growing so long and strong’ is more than just a delightful way to enjoy your little one’s company.
Touch is a powerful element of your baby’s development – it is the first sense to develop, just days after conception, and is important for a whole lifetime: it stimulates growth hormones as well as hormones that relieve stress and those that encourage bonding and attachment. By consciously spending just a few minutes each day massaging with gentle, firm pressure, you can help your baby become calmer and happier. As well as releasing endorphins – those ‘feel good’ hormones that help us all reduce stress – massaging your baby will reduce stress hormones such as cortisol and this can also have positive effects on brain development. There is increasing evidence that high levels of stress hormones are toxic to infant brains and may have lasting effects on your child’s response to stressful experiences. Other studies show that babies with lower levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) in their blood do better at mental and motor ability tests. There is good news for tired mums, too: a few simple strokes can lull your baby into a deeper, more restful sleep. According to Dr Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, ‘a massage just before bedtime is more effective than rocking at helping your baby fall asleep and stay asleep’. Dr Field’s studies are affirmed by researchers from Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom who looked at nine studies of massage covering 598 infants aged under six months. The studies showed that babies who were massaged cried less, slept better, and had lower levels of stress hormones compared to infants who did