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DADS: LEARN INFANT MASSAGE FOR YOUR BABY AND YOU

Nurturant Men, Successful Kids: You Can Help. Children benefit immensely from affectionate interaction with both parents. Dr. Michael Lamb, author of The Role of the Father in Child Developmentsays, “A warm, affectionate father-son relationship can strengthen a boy’s masculine development. A nurturant father is a more available model than a non-nurturant father. the nurturant father’s behavior is…

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#Bonding #Fathers #Infant Massage

Infant Massage, Bonding, Babywearing and Attachment

The Fourth TrimesterDuring my time of research in 1975-1976, I made many trips to the medical library, studying everything I could find regarding the effects of touch between parents and infants. I read through anatomy books and edited some of my massage routine, working with the babies’ internal organs. For example, the tummy strokes follow the intestinal tract and colon, which helps strengthen…

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THE EFFECTS OF BABY MASSAGE ON ATTACHMENT BETWEEN MOTHER AND THEIR INFANTS

A study was made from June 2008 to February 2010 in Turkey. There were 57 in the experimental group, 60 in the control group. Between the dates of the study, all healthy mothers giving birth for the first time and their healthy babies were included. Data were collected about their demographic characteristics and by using the Maternal Attachment Inventory (MAI). All mothers were assessed on the…

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THE CONTINUUM CONCEPT: PRECEDES MANY MODERN IDEAS ABOUT INFANTS

I found Jean Liedloff’s Continuum Concept very early in my children’s lives and my work with infant massage. It made great sense to me and informed my parenting – especially the first couple of years of my children’s lives. What is it?

The continuum concept is an idea, coined by Jean Liedloff in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, that human beings have an innate set of expectations (which…

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#attachment #Bonding #Carrying #Co-sleeping #Continuum Concept #Cooperative #Crying #Evolutionary Psychology #Fussing #Infants #Liedloff #Newborns #Responsive Parenting #Social

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY FRIENDS, FOLLOWERS, AND WELL-WISHERS

Thank you for your friendship, your kindness, and the love that comes to me over this “invisible” thing called Facebook.

You may have noticed some change from me over the last year or so. Most of my FB friends are from other countries, so I’d like to explain the evolution of my life and work.

I have had a disease called Fibromyalgia for 30 years. I had a total remission from 2014 through…

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#Art #Fibromyalgia #Infant Massage #My Story #Politics

Infant Massage, Bonding, Babywearing & Attachment Part 3

The Importance of the First Few Months of LifeIf a failed relationship is detected, especially when the infant is six months old or younger, the chances of helping the parent and child form a strong bond is greatly improved. The fact that damage can begin that young should be sobering to parents, but as is so often the case, the parents most in need of help are often the least likely to seek it.…

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Infant Massage, Bonding, Babywearing and Attachment

The Fourth TrimesterDuring my time of research in 1975-1976, I made many trips to the medical library, studying everything I could find regarding the effects of touch between parents and infants. I read through anatomy books and edited some of my massage routine, working with the babies’ internal organs. For example, the tummy strokes follow the intestinal tract and colon, which helps strengthen…

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DADS: LEARN INFANT MASSAGE FOR YOUR BABY & YOU

Nurturant Men, Successful Kids: You Can Help. Children benefit immensely from affectionate interaction with both parents. Dr. Michael Lamb, author of The Role of the Father in Child Developmentsays, “A warm, affectionate father-son relationship can strengthen a boy’s masculine development. A nurturant father is a more available model than a non-nurturant father. the nurturant father’s behavior is…

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#Bonding #Fathers #Infant Massage

WHY BABIES CRY AND HOW TO LISTEN

Babies cry for many reasons, and it is important to learn your baby’s personality and his or her different cries so that you can respond to them. There are cries that mean, “I need affection,” “I’m hungry,” “I’m in pain,” “I’m uncomfortable,” “I’m tired and cranky and don’t know how to get to sleep,” and still others that are simply “venting” all the stress the baby takes in, adjusting to the…

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#attachment #Bonding #brain development #Co-sleeping #Crying #Crying Baby #Infant Massage #Infants #Newborns #Parenting #Responsive Parenting #Touch

An Introduction to Infant Massage

The Benefits of Infant Massage

The benefits of massaging your baby are many: for your baby, for you as parents, for your family, and for society at large. I have always thought of them in those categories.

Interaction Massaging your baby promotes bonding; it contains every element of the bonding process. Infant massage promotes a secure attachment with your child over time. It promotes…

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MAGIC!

Pleasure is a fantastic, powerful medicine. Our bodies are designed to renew when we feel joy, our bodies blossom and mend through the delights of earthly pleasures. In humans, nitric oxide (not nitrous oxide in the dentist’s office!) is a signaling molecule in our brains, blood, lungs, and gastrointestinal systems, dilating blood vessels, raising blood supply and helping to protect our tissues.…

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INFANT MASSAGE: STRESS AND RELAXATION

Infant massage is one tool we have to help reshape our child’s interpretations of the world, to release her pain, grief, and fear, and to open her up to love and joy.

Touch meets a baby’s needs for physical contact, affection, security, stimulation, and movement. Skin-to-skin contact is especially effective, such as during breastfeeding, bathing, or massage. Carrying or babywearing also meets…

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#anxious attachment #attachment #Babywearing #Bonding #Carrying #Empathy #Evolutionary Psychology #high-risk factors #Infant Massage #Infants #Joy #Leboyer #Love

Bring Nurturing Touch Back to Our Families

by JoAnn Lewis

Touch is our first language in life. It is the most developed sense at birth and the last to leave us when we die. We identify ourselves, each other and our world by touching.

Massage as positive touch with respect and permission is among the most powerful forms of communication. Historically, massage has been handed down from family to family in village cultures in some form…

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RESEARCH FINDS THAT MATERNAL SEPARATION STRESSES THE INFANT

A woman goes into labor, and gives birth. The newborn is swaddled and placed to sleep in a nearby bassinet, or taken to the hospital nursery so that the mother can rest. Despite this common practice, research published in Biological Psychiatry provides new evidence that separating infants from their mothers is stressful to the baby.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against…

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MOTHERS MAY EMIT ODORS THAT TEACH THEIR INFANTS WHAT TO BE AFRAID OF

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that mothers may emit odors that teach their infants what to be afraid of, even if the fearful experience is one that the baby has never been exposed to. The research may help explain a phenomenon that has perplexed scientists for generations: Children may have…

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#fear #inherited trauma

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CALMING A BABY

Research published in the journal Current Biology shows that infants experience an automatic calming reaction when they are being carried, whether they are mouse pups or human babies.

Kumi Kuroda of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Saitama, Japan says, “From humans to mice, mammalian infants become calm and relaxed when they are carried by their mother.”

Being held in a mother’s arms is the…

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THE MAGIC THAT FUELS UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CREATIVITY AND IS IMPORTANT TO CHILDBIRTH AND PARENTING

Pleasure is fantastic, powerful medicine. Our bodies are designed to renew when we feel joy, our bodies blossom and mend through the delights of earthly pleasures. In humans, nitric oxide (not nitrous oxide in the dentist’s office!) is a signaling molecule in our brains, blood, lungs, and gastrointestinal systems, dilating blood vessels, raising blood supply and helping to protect our tissues. It…

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