Linda Storm
IAIM International Trainer

Getting-in-touch with your baby is as important as food and clothing. Your love and touch helps your baby feel secure. Your interactions establish their first relationships. As we have witnessed in orphanages in romania, infants who are not touched and loved, fail to thrive and die.

Learn More about infant massage and the touch of life

www.touchforlife.org
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Benefits of Infant Massage

• Benefits for baby

  Promotes bonding and attachment through eye-to-eye contact, touch, voice, smell, movement and shared experience.
  Helps baby regulate behavioral states.
  Helps baby sleep deeper/sounder.
  Improves blood circulation.
  Helps digestions
  Helps assimilate nutrition better
  Promotes baby's self-esteem and positive self image
  Stimulates a healthy immune system.
  Promotes body awareness.
  Helps relieve discomfort from gas, colic and constipation.
  Can help with congestion.
  Promotes myelination of the brain/nervous system.
  Helps normalize muscle tone.
  Improves respiration.
  Enhances neurological development
  Reduces levels of cortisol ‚stress hormone.

• Benefits for parents

  Helps parent feel more confident and competent in caring for their baby.
  Helps parents reconnect with their baby if they have been away during the day.
  Give parents the opportunity to observe the baby's cues, response and learn their personality.
  Helps parents unwind and relax
  Provides another activity to do with the baby.
  Empowers a parent to know their baby's cues and responses.
   

• Benefits for society

  As stated on the front page, in societies where infant are held, massaged, rocked, breastfed and carried, adults are less aggressive and violent, more cooperative and compassionate.

www.touchforlife.org
www.iaim-us.com