To many kids massage is appointed on medical indications – to remove stress in muscles, to level asymmetry, to correct consequences of patrimonial injuries. Massage is useful to all children, but not all of them like foreign people. But caring mother's hands are always free for the favourite sweetie. How independently to do massage to the baby?
Advantage
Massage is long since known for the broad medicinal and preventive properties. Types of massage a huge set, all of them are directed to blood circulation improvement, strengthening of muscles, removal of pain and tension and also to stimulation of physical and intellectual development. Medical massage is done after the resolution of the concrete diagnosis, and it is better to provide it to the expert.
Terms
Pediatricians recommend to begin massage at the age of 4-5 weeks. It is considered that before this time the set of new impressions are already necessary to the newborn. Besides in the first month of life the child is still too susceptible to ambient temperature and mom is afraid to disturb him once again. In a word, it is better to postpone until the second month.
- In the room it has to be warm, not less than 20 degrees.
- The child has to be fed in 1-2 hours prior to massage, but is not too hungry, otherwise he will be capricious and demand quite fairly a milk.
- Massage can be done on a changing table or on a usual table, having put on it thin matrasik and a disposable diaper (a usual diaper and an oilcloth under it).
- It is important that also to you, and to the child it was convenient.
- Process has to be pleasant to both of you. If someone cries, is nervous or was tired, it is time to finish.
- Do not forget to cut nails, to take off jewelry and hours not to scratch the child.
- Hands before massage can be oiled or children's cream and it is necessary to rub the friend about the friend that they became warm. Do not overdo!
- It is better not to smear the child with oil. In this respect there are various opinions, but most of experienced massage therapists does not recommend its use as it clogs up pores and forms a fat film on skin.
Technology of performance
There is also nothing supernatural in baby massage: everything that from you is required - to be pressed and stroked slightly in the right direction in the right places. Card of efforts approximately is as follows: a foot - a leg (from the periphery to the center) - a tummy – a thorax - palms – hands (from the periphery to the center) – turn on a stomach – shoulders - a back. It is possible to stroke softly a face, reading the rhyme about eyes, a mouth, a nose. It very much is pleasant to kids.
- We begin with an easy razminaniye of the top part of a foot and fingers - wells of the points of health connected with all internals of the person.
- We pass to a leg. Small pillows of an index and middle finger, without straining a brush, with circular motions it is passable from foot to buttocks. We make the same with other leg.
- The tummy should be ironed clockwise, avoiding strong pressing and area of the right podreberye.
- We iron a thorax with circular motions. Area of the right breast counterclockwise, and left – clockwise.
- Palms and fingers are warmed softly up and we pass to hands. Move from a palm to a shoulder with circular motions of average and index fingers.
- After turn on a stomach massage a coat hanger and stroke a back the front and back side of palms.
Recommendations
- Talk to the kid, call parts of a body with which you work, smile, play, tell rhymes and sing songs. Any mechanically executed movements!
- It is not necessary to force if the child cries. In that case massage will do more harm, than advantage.
- It is possible to do massage every day. The best time for such procedure – in the evening to or after bathing. The kid will get tired, will calm down and will strong fall asleep. But if and dityu it is more convenient to you in the morning or in the afternoon, then the choice for you.
- If you are not sure of the forces, it is possible to employ the massage therapist that he showed you as it is correct to do massage.
- The gymnastics corresponding to age of the baby well approaches massage also.
Contraindications
It is worth consulting to the doctor after all. Report about your good intentions and consider opinion of the expert who is familiar with your child personally.
It is better to hold off massage if:
- the child is sick,
- the child cries,
- on skin rash, irritation.
For record. Your husband can envy and demand "the same massage". Try to find time and for it. Good relations between mom and dad influence the child even better than massage.
Touches, contact with mom is need of each kid. Nobody is better than you will not feel change in his mood and will understand, it is good to it now or not really. Enjoy minutes of proximity with your child, and your love and care in the best way will affect his health and development.