Baby Massage

Baby Massage

*We are not currently offering this treatment, we hope to restart it again in the near future.*

 

 

As a new parent you will want to do best for your baby and bond with them.

The benefits of infant or baby massage have been highly researched and documented and in our clinic we are fortunate to have Majella Delaney an IAIM trained infant masseur who is also a chartered physiotherapist, giving the new mother expert advice and instruction through her classes.

Baby Massage for infants, babies and children include the following:

  • Provides a special time of communication that fosters love, compassion, and respect
  • Improves general well-being
  • Provides an intimate time for children to confide in     parents
  • Improves overall functioning of the gastrointestinal  tract
  • Promotes relaxation and helps babies self-regulate calm, which reduces crying
  • Helps to normalize muscle tone
  • Improves circulation
  • Enhances immune system function
  • Improves midline orientation
  • Helps to improve sensory and body awareness
  • Enhances neurological development
  • Helps baby/child to sleep deeper and more soundly
  • Helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells. Improves respiration
  • Helps to improve pain management; can relieve discomfort from teething,
  • Helps with congestion, gas, and colic
  • Enhances release of hormones in the body. The growth hormone can be stimulated which helps weight gain.
  • Reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone
  • Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.
  • Stimulates all of the physiological systems. Massage sparks the neurons in their  brains to grow and branch out to encompass other neurons.

To access the Irish Association of Infant Massage click http://www.babymassageireland.com/

Our classes are held in Kilkenny Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic in Maudlin St., Kilkenny, and in Core Clinic, Clontubrid, Freshford, Co. Kilkenny