7 Benefits of Baby Massage

June 8, 2021

Baby massage is a wonderful nurturing and bonding experience for you and your baby. It boasts a broad spectrum of benefits, from promoting deep sleep to reducing tension, restlessness and irritability. Here at Leamington Spa Therapy Centre, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of benefits you and your little one can gain when performing baby massage correctly.

1/ Greater bonding between caregiver and baby

As well as tactile stimulation, skin to skin contact is great for bonding. It allows babies and caregivers to develop a closer bond, making it particularly beneficial for adopted babies.

2/ Relaxes the baby and the caregiver

Any form of massage releases endorphins. Baby massage helps to relax both caregiver and baby, while regulating baby’s sleep/wake cycles.

3/ Improves motor development and coordination

Baby massage is performed head to toe, tracing the development of the baby’s neurological system. Studies have shown that significantly improved motor development as a result of regular massage.

Baby Massage

4/ Better digestion

Massage strokes targeted at the baby’s abdominal area helps stimulate digestion by helping move the bowels; helping with gas relief.

5/ Improved touch processing

The stroking of the baby's skin will help to stimulate the tactile system. This will cause connections to occur between brain cells, helping the baby to process the sense of touch.

6/ Enhanced body awareness

When babies are born they have very little sense of where their body stops and starts. They don’t know they have two hands, or feet. This concept of body awareness is improved through baby massage as the stimulation helps the baby learn about the parameters of their body.

7/ Relieved trauma and colic

Baby massage offers a safe and enjoyable treatment for colic. When massaged regularly, research shows that it reduces crying time, improves sleep quality, eases stomach discomfort and reduces parents’ anxiety. 


Baby massage can help relieve symptoms and provide the baby with some well needed rest bite. It has several benefits thanks to feel-good hormones released from gentle and rhythmic strokes along the body, helping you both feel more relaxed and calm. 


Why not try a baby massage in Kenilworth, Warwick, with your baby on a one-to-one basis or in a group at Leamington Spa Therapy Centre us today!

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