Infant Massage

Your Perinatal Partner
Helping you before, during, and after childbirth.
Tammy Roecker, CD, CBE, LMT, NCTMB, CIMI, CPT, CIIT, Reiki Master
(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

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. I was trained and teach the IAIM®-International Association of Infant Massage Programs...trained to help guide parents to learn the strokes and cue into their baby's body language.

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

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****If you are interested in learning to teach Infant Massage, you can become a CIMI®-Certified Infant Massage Instructor! This 3 Day class is also worth 25CEH for nurses, LMTs, PTs, OTs, EIS, Community Therapists, etc... **Approved Provider for NCTMB, AZPTA.