Helping Your Child Sleep Better

It seems that parents of every new baby quickly become challenged by broken sleep and their baby’s unpredictable and erratic sleep patterns. It is hardly surprising then that parents are eager to learn techniques to help their child sleep better.

While a child may not sleep well or follow a logical sleep pattern, the effects are equally as profound for sleep-deprived parents. Some new parents are surprised to learn that ‘sleeping through’ is defined as sleeping for five consecutive hours, according to many studies of infant sleep.

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How Baby Massage can Help to Reduce Postnatal Depression

Postnatal depression is a real and crippling experience for many new mothers. Despite the incredible desire to have a baby and the excitement and joy of a child’s birth, hormonal changes and the far-reaching changes brought about by motherhood can result in some women experiencing overwhelming feelings of sadness and despair.

While awareness of postnatal depression is increasing, it seems that this form of depression is quite often under-recognised and therefore, under-treated. However, many leading doctors, academics and those who have had first-hand experience of postnatal depression are realising that infant massage can play a very significant role in helping to reduce the effects of depression following the birth of a child.

What is postnatal depression?

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The Therapeutic Benefits of Touch

As more and more parents are discovering, infant massage is one of the best and most effective ways of comforting and bonding with a baby. Not only is touch very important in helping to create the bond of love and trust that exists between a parent and their child, baby massage also can assist with a range of medical conditions and can even improve the mental state of a mother experiencing postnatal depression.

Here we look at five facts pertaining to the therapeutic benefits of touch:

1:  Infant massage can help to establish better sleeping and settling habits

A growing body of research shows that of the many benefits of baby massage, the benefit that is often most valued by parents is the improvement that can result in a child’s sleeping habits. By the parent administering particular infant massage techniques, the baby can be settled more effectively and assisted to relax as they approach sleep time.

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