The benefits of massage for a child from birth to one year: the basics of massage (6 video instructions)

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For a harmonious and healthy development, massage for the baby plays an important role. And teachers, physiologists, and pediatricians are fully confident in this. It is healing, and favorably affects not only the physical development of the child, but also on its neuropsychological status. If the mother herself does the massage for the baby, then between both, due to regular and tactile contact, a close, emotional rapprochement is established. Pediatricians and psychologists say that babies who are massaged by their mother grow up as extremely loving people, more responsive, kind and confident.

The skin of a baby up to a year has many receptors that respond in a split second to touch, to changes in ambient temperature, to pressure, to mechanical stress. During the massage, a child under one year old has a mild effect on the most diverse structures of the central nervous system (central nervous system), the central nervous system tones up, and the system’s ability to control the processes that occur in the child’s body improves.

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The benefits of massage

Massage for a child up to one year old helps to quickly correct the arising orthopedic and nervous disorders: hypo - and muscle hypertonicity, feet turned outward and inward, poor dilution in the hip joint of the legs, clubfoot.

Infants have “residual reflexes” from birth (see article on reflexes) - in which a highly overexcited child constantly scatters the handles to the side. They are also called "Moro reflexes." There is also a Babinsky reflex, in which, with irritation of the soles, the baby begins to reflexively flex its fingers. Normally, all these reflexes pass by 4-5 months of age. But there are cases of "delay." Timely massage just eliminates the "residual reflexes": in the baby completely disappear - chin tremor, hands, other parts of the body.

Massage has a positive effect on the lymphatic system of the baby and on the healthy development of the musculoskeletal system.

We read more on the topic of massage:

How to massage the tummy of a newborn baby with severe colic – https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/massazh-pri-kolikah.html;

The right massage for the child in the first three months of life (everything is very detailed about the rules and contraindications. In which cases a massage is prescribed) – https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/massazh-dlya-rebenka-1-mesyats.html;

Fitball lessons with a newborn baby (+ many videos) – https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/veshhi-dlya-malyisha/fitbol-dlya-grudnichkov.html.

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When to start

A healthy child is advised to do massage starting from the 1st month, half an hour before meals or forty minutes after eating. You can not massage the baby before bedtime, excessive overexcitation of the child is useless.

All these are general recommendations: mothers should show their child to three doctors - specialists - a pediatrician, orthopedist and neuropathologist, before starting a massage treatment. Let your baby grow healthy!