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How Do I Understand My Baby’s Language?
From the very moment of birth, your baby began to communicate with you. As soon as you hold your baby, you begin to communicate with each other by exchanging loving glances, sounds, and touches. You introduce your little one to your own ways communicating through touch, making verbal sounds and facial gestures. Over time, your baby will learn your language and ways of communicating, just as you will learn your baby's unique language.
Stimulate Your Newborn Through Massage
Many parents want to find ways to help stimulate their baby and what better way than through play time together. For babies, playing stimulates their senses, and helps them to learn. Playing with your baby, also known as infant stimulation, can include activities that stimulate your baby’s senses.
The Importance of Touch in Parent-Infant Bonding
When your baby first arrives your bond may begin immediately, or for some it may take you both time to “grow on each other”. One thing we know for sure is that bonding is essential for a baby.
You Can Bring Your Baby to Work
Throughout history, mothers have kept their babies with them while working. However, having children in the work environment now is not always feasible. Luckily, many companies offer programs for their employees to bring their children to work, or to work from home for at least part of their work week. But, what if your workplace doesn’t allow your baby to come to work with you? How can you balance both career and family time?
Build a Bond with Your Adopted Baby
Many families are concerned about bonding and attachment with their baby after adoption. If you are concerned, you are not alone. However, observation and research shows that adoptive families can form bonds as successfully as biological families. For some families infant massage plays an important role in encouraging their bond.
Why Massage My Baby?
Babies and children simply love to be touched. In fact, they thrive on it and it is a crucial part of their development. Children need physical contact for healthy growth and development, and massage can play an important role in nourishing this growth.
Homework for Mom?
Many women are deciding to leave their fast paced career lives to stay at home with their children. Some consider themselves stay at home moms, while many others are work from home moms. So what’s the difference? All moms that stay at home with their children are working all day long anyway. The good news is that there’s a way to have your cake and eat it too!
Infant Massage Improves Sleep
Massage can be very effective for helping babies sleep deeper and for longer periods of time - which can translate into you being able to sleep longer as well. Sometimes all night!
My Baby is Constipated! What can I do?
Constipation occurs for everyone at some time in their life, but can cause pain and discomfort for your baby. There are many different methods you can try to help relieve this discomfort however; I have found infant massage specifically for constipation to be very effective.
Impact a Baby for a Lifetime
Teach Infant Massage - Become a Certified Infant Massage Instructor! What is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor? A Certified Infant Massage Instructor (CIMI®) is a parent educator who teaches the healing art of infant massage to parents or caregivers in the presence of their babies. You do not need to be a massage therapist, or have any previous experience in the healthcare field to become certified to teach infant massage.
How to Communicate with Your Autistic Child
Through the use of massage therapy our basic human need for safe, nurturing contact is met with often wonderful results. For children with autism, it provides not only a positive experience of being touched, but the effects hold lifelong benefits.
Should I use Cloth Diapers?
Bringing Home Baby can be an exciting, wonderful and often anxious time, but with a little planning beforehand, your family will be able to relax and treasure this special time together. There is a reason why pregnancy lasts for 40 weeks –you have lots to learn from the time of conception until your little one arrives. Before you bring home baby, here are some tips to help you get ready.
What is Postpartum Depression?
What is Postpartum Depression? When depression occurs after pregnancy it is called postpartum depression, peripartum depression and sometimes is more commonly known as “baby blues” What causes Postpartum Depression? What are the symptoms of the "Baby Blues", and how can I treat these symptoms without medication?
Pediatric Massage: The Relaxation Rx
To many young pediatric patients and their families, pediatric massage is often seen as the medicine they need to heal. Infant, Children's and Pediatric Massage expert, Tina Allen of Liddle Kidz, gives you advice and techniques for adaptiong massage therapy to suit chronically ill pediatric patients.
Massage Time with Your Toddler
Ever wondered how to help your child sleep through the night or how you might find more time to sleep yourself? Massaging your child could be the answer. This article gives you the why's and how-to's to begin massaging your child right now!
Bathing Your Baby Checklist
When you have a new baby, it can be confusing to know what to do and how to do it all right. Leading international parent educator and expert in infant and children's massage, Tina Allen of Liddle Kidz answers all of your questions and gives you easy step-by-step techniques to provide your new baby with their very first bath.
Infant Massage - A Cool New Tool?
There are so many benefits to using infant massage with your baby. Not only will your baby feel relaxed so will you! Nurturing touch is a naturally rewarding way to relieve stress for both you and your baby as well as improve their healthy development.
A Cool Tool to Help Moms get a good nights sleep, too!
After you've tried all your regular tricks, do you still wonder how to get your baby, toddler or child to sleep? This article gives you simple tricks, techniques and solutions to help your child sleep - naturally!
What will Swaddling do for my baby?
Do you want to learn to swaddle your baby? This step by step guide gives you the tools and know how to get the job done right. Learn to swaddle your little one in 7 easy steps!
Will swaddling help my colicky baby?
Have you ever wondered what COLIC means? Leading international parent educator and expert Tina Allen from liddlekidz.com answers your questions and gives you easy solutions to help comfort and soothe your colicky baby.
How can I help my newborn baby stop crying?
Do you ever wonder what makes a baby cry? Leading international parent educator and expert Tina Allen, LMT, CIIT, CIMI, founder of leading children’s health and nurturing touch organization Liddle Kidz™, answers your questions and gives you easy solutions to help comfort and soothe your crying baby.
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