Synopses & Reviews
Holding, kissing, and cuddling babies are loving ways to nurture their growth and to create a vital bond between parent and child. With massage, the positive effects of touch are intensified, directly influencing the physical growth of infants.
The latest research on infant development shows even preterm infants weight gain can be facilitated by massage therapy.
Fully illustrated, this classic handbook presents a time-tested approach to the techniques and benefits of parent-child touch, including:
- The process of bonding and body contact
- Baby massage as an expression of love
- Healing the effects of birth trauma
- Baby massage as a healing alternative to drugs
- Benefits to the parents
Review
A solid parenting manual...wise and wondrously specific. (Kirkus Reviews)
Review
"A solid parenting manual…wise and wondrously specific." —
Kirkus Reviews"Highly recommended." —Library Journal
"Offers guidance and assurance for those who want to grow close to their babies through massage." —Bookmarks
"Utilizing an abundance of photos and diagrams…can be used by interested new parents as well as more experienced individuals." —The Midwest Book Review
Synopsis
This classic handbook now back in print—a fully illustrated, time-tested approach to the techniques and benefits of parent-child touch.The latest research on infant development shows that not only is baby massage a pleasurable way to express love and establish an emotional bond between parent and child—it also has direct and crucial effects on the physical growth of infants.
With an introduction by Dr. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Baby Massage includes information on:
• the process of bonding and body contact
• the positive effects of touch on premature babies
• how baby massage can heal the effects of birth trauma
• how baby massage can alleviate colic
Over 30 b/w photos and drawings.
About the Author
Amelia Auckett, a practicing nurse for more than 25 years, headed the Infant Welfare Centre in Frankston, Victoria, Australia, and taught baby massage through lectures and workshops at hospitals, institutes, and universities. Her film,
Family Massage, has been shown throughout the world. She is the mother of two sons.
Tiffany Field, Ph.D., who contributed the introduction to this edition, has been an active researcher in massage therapy for the last twenty years and, in 1992, founded and directed the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.