The Baby Massage course run in 5 week blocks, 1.5hour classes once per week. The cost is $180 for the 5 week block. Each week in a small intimate group parent/s or caregiver will experience the benefits of massage by learning valuable massage techniques which can be used daily

Benefits to Parents:

• Helps the parent to feel more competent and confident in their parenting role.
• Helpful to ease stress of working parents who must be separated from the child during the day.
• Increase self-esteem of parents by enhancing and reinforcing their parenting skills and validating their parent role.
• Baby’s daily massage time offers parents a time to relax and unwind from the busy pace of life.
• Enhances communication and builds respect.
• Provides intimacy and special time for fathers and Child.
• It’s fun and relaxing for parents to massage their children.

Benefits to Parents:

• Relief: massage can relieve discomfort from teething, congestion, gas and colic and emotional stress.
• Bonding: more intimate interaction with parent and baby/child helping to foster the parent/infant bond.
• Skin stimulation: all the physiological systems are stimulated by massage. It speeds myelination of the brain/nervous system
• Helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells. It helps to deepen respiration.
• Helps to improve muscle tone and circulation.
• Helps to encourage midline orientation & improve sensory awareness enhancing neurological development.
• Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and longer and Improves digestion.
• Provides a special communication time that serves as a safe time for children to confide in the parent.