Your Perinatal Partner
Helping you before, during, and after childbirth.
Tammy Roecker, CD, CBE, LMT, NCTMB, CPT, CIMEB™
(602) 697-6463

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Infant Massage

The Touch Research Institue is dedicated to scientifically demonstrating the benefits Of touch therapy and establishing its credibility with the medical community.  They have studied the effects of massage therapy at all stages of life, from newborns to senior citizens. From these studies the Touch Research Institute has shown that Touch and massage has many beneficial effects. For example, massage therapy has been shown to:

•Facilitate weight gain in pre-term infants
•Reduce stress hormones
•Alleviate depressive symptoms
•Reduce pain
•Positively alter the immune system
•Alter EEG in the direction of heightened awareness.
 
For more detailed information, including published studies, visit The Touch Research Institute’s website at:

www.miami.edu/touch-research

 

INFANT MASSAGE CLASSES
 

Moms, Dads, Siblings, Grandparents, Anyone can learn!
Parents enjoy learning to massage their babies.  It promotes bonding and attachment.  A number of important elements help form the bond between parent and child. These include sharing eye-to-eye contact, skin-to-skin contact, facial expressions, soothing sounds, cuddling, and smell.   Infant massage incorporates these critical elements of bonding and provides a special time that fosters mutual love, compassion, and respect.   Additionally, parents have an opportunity to chat with other parents and share their experiences. Learning infant massage helps parents have a focused one-on-one time with their baby. During infant massage classes, there are no "performance standards."  Massage is done at the pace the babies are willing to accept.

 Just some of the many benefits:

    • Relaxes child and helps to decrease stress for you and your baby.
    • Relieves discomfort from constipation, gas, and colic.
    • Helps normalize muscle tone and improve blood circulation.
    • Helps baby sleep better (and, therefore, parents sleep better!).
    • Stimulates brain development and improves sensory awareness.
    • Babies cry less, as the parent is more responsive to babies’ cues.
    • Promotes bonding and attachment 

 

BOOKS:

How Will I Be Born –Jean Sutton
Essential Exercises for  the Childbearing Year –Elizabeth Nobel
When Baby Brings the Blues
Touch – Tiffany Field
Touching –Ashley Montegue
Biology of Belief –Bruce Lipton
Pre-parenting –Thomas R Verney
The Mind of Your Newborn –Chamberlain
Your Amazing Newborn –Klaus
Infant Massage –Vimala McClure
in the USA –Marsden Wagner
Baby Massage –Amelia Auckett
Baby Massage –Heath/Bainbridge
Baby Massage –Peter Walker
Kangaroo Care-Ludington
Have a Smarter Baby-Ludington 
The Scientification of Love –Michele Odent
Parenting Begins Before Conception –Carista Luminare-Rosen
A Child is Born –Nilsson/Hamberger
The Aware Baby –Solter
Earthbabies –Wendy McCord
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer –Tracey Hogg
“No-Cry” Sleep Solution, and more –by Elizabeth Pantley
Birth Without VioleceLeboyer
Touchpoints Brazelton
Advances in Touch-Brazelton
Bonding-Brazelton
Calming Your Fussy Baby-Brazelton
The Baby Book –Sears
Complete Baby and Child Care –Miriam Stoppard

Videos/DVDs:

Nature, Nurture and the Power of Love –Lipton
Pregnant in America
Business of Being Born
Origins of Love and Violence-Prescott
The Intelligence of Play-Brown/Pearce/and more
Between Humans and Horses –McCord
What Babies Want –Takikawa
I am Your Child –Rob Reiner Foundation
Laboring Under an Illusion –Elson
The Happiest Baby on the Block
Dunstan Baby Language
It’s Baby Time
Discovering the Mind of the Prenate-Chamberlain
MUSIC:
  • A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, By Tanya Goodman
  • The Rock-a-Bye Collection, By Tanya Goodman
  • One Light, One Sun, By Raffi
  • Rise and Shine, By Raffi
  • Night Time, Catch That Train, Family Dance, House Party, By Dan Zanes
  • True Nature, By Leslie Lembo & Bruce Begeno

 

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