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Colleen T. Fay, LMT, CIMI

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Benefits for Babies

It is never too late to begin massage. Whether your baby is a newborn or several years old, massage can bring immediate and lasting results. Expectant parents who take infant massage instruction in advance are ready to begin this wonderful loving touch right from the start.

Benefits for infants and babies 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 managament; 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.

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Colleen T. Fay, LMT, CIMI

 

As a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, Colleen offers classes where parents and caregivers can learn to promote good sleeping habits, stimulate the immune system and relieve the pain associated with colic and gas through “The Art of Infant Massage.”

Licensed Massage Therapist — l986
Certified Prenatal and Infant Massage — l990
Member American Massage Therapy Assoc.
Swedish Institute Graduate, College of Massage Therapy and Health Sciences — l985
Studies include: Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology, Spinal Analysis, and Medical Massage.

Call for consultation or appointment 732.299.1330 or email Colleen

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