Quite often, babies in the first months of life suffer from intestinal colic (here detailed article) As a rule, babies who are not yet three months old suffer from this trouble, often colic begins to bother them, starting from the second week of life. In order to cope with the problem, they recommend different methods and means, including medicines, placing the child in the acute period of colic in a warm bath. One of the most effective ways to help a newborn baby with colic is to massage.
Tummy massage for colic
If the baby suffers from colic, it is recommended to massage the tummy before each feeding. The duration of such a massage is 5-7 minutes. Before the massage, it is recommended to warm the stomach for several minutes. To do this, you need to warm the diaper (you can iron it with a hot iron or hold it on a warm battery), then you need to put the folded diaper on the baby’s stomach, cover it with your hands so that your hands encircle the abdomen and hold the diaper on your stomach for some time. After a while, you can remove the diaper, warming the stomach.
Massage for colic is recommended to be performed without lubricating the hands with oil or baby cream. The reason for this is that the use of cream or oil enhances the adhesion of the skin of the palms of the hands to the skin of the baby’s tummy, and can lead to too much effort during massage. If your mom’s hands are a little wet, you can lightly powder them with talcum powder or baby powder.
After that, you can start a tummy massage.
1. First, gently stroke the stomach, gradually increasing pressure, moving to a light pressure. To do this, you need to fold your palms with a "house" so that the convex part of the "house" is in the area of the baby's navel, and gently perform pressing movements with the ribs of the palms along the edge of the abdomen. In this case, special attention should be paid to bypassing the region of the right hypochondrium - there is a liver, which in babies protrudes slightly from under the lower rib. Then you need to make several pressing movements from right to left (so in the baby’s body there is a large intestine). After each movement, you need to perform slow, soothing stroking movements.
2. The next movement is often called a "water mill." With palms, you need to easily stroke the tummy from top to bottom along its central part, from the ribs to the inguinal region. After several such movements, one hand is placed on the tummy, and the oblique muscles of the abdomen are stroked with the other, then on the other side.
3. Next, counter stroking is performed.In order to perform it, you need to run your hands along the stomach in this way: the left hand goes up, the right hand down, in the direction of the large intestine. After that, a circular stroking of the abdomen is performed, with one hand, then with two hands.
4. U-shaped stroking the tummy is also effective. It can be carried out in three stages: first, with the right palm, you need to stroke the baby’s tummy from left to top, then the movement is carried out in a “corner”, from the right hypochondrium to the left, then from top to bottom. After that, the tummy is stroked in the form of the letter P: the hand goes on the right side of the tummy up, then from right to left, after that - on the left side of the tummy from top to bottom.
Such stroking movements when performing massage for newborns with colic help drive out the gases from the large intestine. After performing the massage, it is recommended to help the baby release gases, for this you need to press the baby's legs to his tummy and hold them for 20-40 seconds. You can also perform a "bicycle" movement, alternately holding the legs against the abdomen. The baby at the same time begins to push. Finish the massage with circular stroking movements.
During a massage with colic it is very important to perform movements in the right direction, clockwise. This corresponds to the position of the intestine in the body and the movement of the hands along the tummy in this direction makes the gases, the main cause of colic, move along the intestine, and the unpleasant sensations caused by colic decrease.
Knowing the basic techniques of massage and understanding how to massage with colic will help parents gain confidence that they can help the baby cope with this difficult problem more easily.
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Oh, I went through all this and really correctly made massages make life easier for children, but also for adults and protects from many health problems!
At one time, I came across a good nanny in the hospital, so she talked about tummy massage, and when she arrived home, my mother told me what to do and how. Massage really helped a lot when my son had a tummy twist. It’s good that there are articles (and most importantly with a video) about baby massage on the Internet, but it would be even better if young mothers would be told about him right in the hospital.
Thanks for the tips! At one time, we suffered from colic for a long time ((((Now we will know how to do it right!
Colic is just a nightmare! They haunt any family member. Massage helps to release accumulated gaziki. But, I want to say that this article and the first video, where the massage is done exactly as described in the article, will help to massage properly. You can put pressure on the intestines, as shown in the second video, in very rare cases, you should not even resort to this every other day. With the same success, it is possible to put a gas vent without disturbing the structure of the internal organs. And the last video is just a massage in a clockwise circle, performed also is not true. You don’t need to belly your navel, you shouldn’t use oils, and even if you use oils, you need to pour them in your palm, distribute them evenly on both palms and only then start massage. No need to pour oil on the child!
I made so many massages to my child that at least get a diploma. True, it became easier, the gaziks came out. But the sister didn’t take milk from her sister, she had to give additives for the assimilation of milk
Up to 3 weeks we also had enough massage, and then tears, screams and nothing helps. The doctor will pass over time. These are the prehistoric tips! ((I rummaged through all the forums in search of what is better and harmless for the baby
Wow - bear it! This is a child, he does not even hold his head, you can’t tell him, be patient. A nightmare, here are the doctors !!! Motion sickness and massages - this is the last century. We take lactazar a few drops before feeding, so that everything is absorbed in the navel))) And the article has excellent tips
we will soon have a month while the massage is saving, stroking ... after all, my mother’s hands are healing.
My son cries even more from massage and presses his legs. Lactazar helps, yes, you can still have dill water, but mine does not drink it, frowns and spits out!
we will soon have a month while the massage is saving, stroking ... .. still mother's hands are healing
I do massage and give lactosar capsules. All together helps from gazikov, blisters and other fuss
We have lactase deficiency, weeping from morning to night. This is worse than a hundred times colic, because it has not been going on for six months now. We are fighting as best we can, of course, not to massagers.
A friend advised the child to do tummy massage more often, he began to cry less. Another camomile is sometimes brewed.
We have a swing, deck chair, grandmother is our masseuse. But not only the movement helped. There were gas pipes, tea with fennel and dietary supplements.
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