Baby Massage

[mle]

We took a baby massage class last night. It was great.
Are any of you baby massagers, find it interesting, want to know more about it, or have information on it?

 

[sammipher]

I don't know very much on baby massage..besides what I have read in parenting books...Lilly doesn't care to much for it. I like to rub her down with lotion after baths and every morning(I just love baby smell)...but, she usually gets cranky when I am doing it...and I would think she would love it..to soothe her little muscles and such...I know sometimes how she sleeps and such..looks so uncomfortable..and she is a holding baby...so I would think all that holding would make her sore...I try to massage her with the lotion as it says in our parenting book..but, she just doesn't like it to well.

 

[Leanna]

So does that mean you're pregnant? I've heard of pregnant ladies/husbands taking infant massage, but I never did. However, my son loooooves back rubs. I can scratch his back, or really lightly rub it, or take one finger and go up and down his back and he's happy as can be. But we've never done anything formal...

 

[mle]

Nahh I'm not prgnant I have a three year old and a four month old. Both my kids love massage. The older old doesn't stay still for very long though.
The class was given by a local massage therapist. It was really easy. Long smooth strokes down the legs, then a wringning motion , then little circles from the ankle up. The same prcedure was for the arms. the tummy is always rubbed in a clockwise motion and the face rubbed gently.