There are no set rules to baby massage. You can modify this technique to suit your baby's needs.
Always remember to be sensitive and responsive. For newborn baby, a massage up to 10 minutes is sufficient, while older baby can enjoy a massage for up to 20 minutes.
Respond to your baby's needs and stop when your baby has had enough.
1. Slowly and gently massage her head.
2. Using both hands, stroke from the center outwards to the sides of baby’s body. Remember that the ribs curve, strokes should follow the spaces between baby’s ribs.
3. Massage in a clockwise direction around navel, in ever widening circles. Do not massage in this areas until after the umbilical cord has fully separated.
4. Stroke down baby’s back from neck to bottom - including bottom. Then with the fingertips of both hands, lightly massage the muscles on either side of baby’s spine, from neck to bottom again, using a descending circular movement.
5. Stroke your baby's arms working down from baby’s shoulders to baby’s fingertips. Wrap your hand around one of your baby's arms and give him a series of gentle squeezes working from the top of baby’s arm down to baby’s wrist. Then massage baby’s wrist using thumb and forefinger. Do the same to his other arm.
6. Massage your baby's thighs, knees, shins and calves. Gently squeeze her thigh working down to her ankle (as with her arms). Massage her ankles, then her feet, one at a time, supporting her ankle securely with one hand and using your thumb to massage from heel to toe along the sole of her foot. This is the firmest massage of the whole body.
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Always remember to be sensitive and responsive. For newborn baby, a massage up to 10 minutes is sufficient, while older baby can enjoy a massage for up to 20 minutes.
Respond to your baby's needs and stop when your baby has had enough.
1. Slowly and gently massage her head.
2. Using both hands, stroke from the center outwards to the sides of baby’s body. Remember that the ribs curve, strokes should follow the spaces between baby’s ribs.
3. Massage in a clockwise direction around navel, in ever widening circles. Do not massage in this areas until after the umbilical cord has fully separated.
4. Stroke down baby’s back from neck to bottom - including bottom. Then with the fingertips of both hands, lightly massage the muscles on either side of baby’s spine, from neck to bottom again, using a descending circular movement.
5. Stroke your baby's arms working down from baby’s shoulders to baby’s fingertips. Wrap your hand around one of your baby's arms and give him a series of gentle squeezes working from the top of baby’s arm down to baby’s wrist. Then massage baby’s wrist using thumb and forefinger. Do the same to his other arm.
6. Massage your baby's thighs, knees, shins and calves. Gently squeeze her thigh working down to her ankle (as with her arms). Massage her ankles, then her feet, one at a time, supporting her ankle securely with one hand and using your thumb to massage from heel to toe along the sole of her foot. This is the firmest massage of the whole body.
If you want to learn more on baby massage, baby health care, baby skin care, click here
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