Massages for Babies: Baby Relaxation Tips

What is more natural than hugging and stroking your baby?

When it comes to discovering the world, the baby embarks on an adventure full of sensory discoveries, feeling, touching and grasping everything around him / her.

As the only fully developed sensory organ at birth, the skin provides your baby with the first landmarks in life. Contact with the baby is as important as the care and protection of your skin.

Studies and research reaffirm the need for the Nutritive Touch as a fundamental basis for development in the first years of life, showing that baby massage contributes to a healthy physical and emotional growth.

Did you know that skin-to-skin contact is essential for your baby's health and development?

Touch is the first way your baby comes into contact with the world. Through massage, you communicate with your baby and transmit affection and tenderness.

With gentle and calm gestures, the massage strengthens your emotional ties and creates a form of dialogue and complicity in a space of intimacy that only belongs to you. Massaging your baby will also stimulate his coordination, the flexibility of his muscles and activate his metabolism. In addition, creating a daily massage routine will help you relax and rest, even if you have not bathed before.

To massage your baby, the ideal is to use a few drops of Calendula Body Oil . This 100% natural oil based on BIO Calendula wraps your baby in a protective layer that prevents the loss of body heat, while deeply hydrating and softening the skin. You can do it from the first days, gradually increasing the duration of the massage: from a few minutes at the beginning to 20 minutes in the first month.

Far from the noises and stresses of everyday life, these loving moments will give you a special moment, will give your baby security and will discover very pleasant sensations that will strengthen your emotional ties.

Some tips for massage

In reality, there are no set standards for a good massage for your baby. It is simply that both of you enjoy this magical moment and feel the complicity that unites you. Let yourself be guided by your intuition and dare to invent new gestures with your baby that you both like.

Even so, we leave you some practical tips so that you feel more secure during the first massages.

• Choose a quiet place, sit comfortably, with relaxed shoulders and arms. Take your time to focus on your baby and make sure you have everything close at hand so you don't have to interrupt the massage.
• Cover the parts of the baby's body that you are not massaging, to prevent them from getting cold.
• The hand must be relaxed and rest completely on the baby's skin, remember to always maintain contact.
• Preheat a few drops of Oil between the palms of your hands. Start with gentle but firm caresses, so that your baby does not feel tickles that disturb him and gets used to the movement of your hands on his skin.
• Talk to him softly but not constantly, he also enjoys the peace and quiet during the massage.

1. Back massage

• Place your right hand on your baby's left shoulder. Relax your arm and allow it to slowly slide towards your baby's right buttock.
• Meanwhile, gently place your left hand on the baby's right shoulder. When the first hand reaches the right buttock, slowly slide your left hand towards the baby's left buttock.
• At the same time, slide your hand from the baby's bottom back to the shoulder.

2. The thigh massage

• Place your right hand on the baby's bottom to prevent it from sliding off the changing table.
• Gently grab your baby's thigh.
• Work your way down the thigh by turning your hand outward while pulling slightly, then continue to your leg by turning your hand inward.

3. Foot massage

Place your baby's foot between your index and middle fingers (in a V shape). In this way, you will accompany your flexion and extension movements while the massage continues. When the V-shaped grip is correct, you have your 2 thumbs to massage the sole, the toes. Kids love them and moms too!

4. Rest of the body

You can extend the massage backwards and massage the back, stomach, arms and hands…. With experience, your hands will invent other techniques, let yourself go and enjoy your baby.

5. Abdominal massage

Normally, the first months of life are a back and forth to the pediatrician because of colic. Although it is a temporary annoyance, one in four newborns suffers from "three month colic."

Their digestive system is still immature and colic can be due to a number of reasons, including swallowing a lot of air when drinking or crying. In any case, this ailment is always caused by gas and the best and most natural way to avoid them is by massaging the baby's abdomen.

As recommended by the Spanish Association of Pediatrics, to promote the expulsion of gases it is advisable to perform massages once or twice a day, so that it becomes a routine and we do not wait for the baby to cry.

The ideal product for this massage is the Oil for the Baby's Tripita . Its 100% natural formula contains BIO almond oil and essential oils of chamomile and cardamom, known for their digestive properties, facilitates massage and provides relaxation and well-being to your baby after the meal.