Infant Massage Basics
Helping you and your baby:
- Bond & Connect with your Baby
- Help your Baby to sleep deeper and longer
- Help calm and soothe your Baby
- Help your Baby with gas, colic, congestion and teething pains
- Help relax your Baby with tension
1-Hour Self-Paced Online Course
Infant Massage Basics
Helping you and your baby:
- Bond & Connect with your Baby
- Help your Baby to sleep deeper and longer
- Help calm and soothe your Baby
- Help your Baby with gas, colic, congestion and teething pains
- Help relax your Baby with tension
1-Hour Self-Paced Online Course.
What will you learn?
- Understand the many benefits of infant massage for you and your baby
- Learn what oils are recommended for infant massage and what oils to avoid
- Learn full body massage strokes and techniques you can use with your baby
- Review of touch alternatives, swaddling and alterntives to swaddling
- Understand infant states and cues to enhance communication with your baby
- Learn how to prepare for massage time with your baby
- Learn specific massage strokes and techniques to help with teething pains, gas, colic and constipation
“Thank you Melanie for your awesome instruction! Baby is sleeping so much better! You are right! The ear lobe massage works like magic!”
“Extremely helpful as a first time mum and also a qualified remedial massage therapist.”
“So good and informative so far and very easy to follow”
“Thank you so much to Melanie! This course was very helpful and interesting. Would definitely recommend it!!!”
This course includes:
- 1 hour on-demand video
- 9 downloadable resources
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion
A peek inside the course:
Students will know if the course is suitable for them and will have a better idea of what topics the course will cover.
The course is for both expectant parents and grandparents and those with newborns and babies up to a year. However many of the strokes can be used and adapted for older children.
Professionals who work with infants and young children may be interested in this course to expand their knowledge.
Please note I use the terms “Baby” and “Infant” interchangeably. The massage strokes can be offered to babies from 0-1 year of age, toddlers and adapted for preschoolers. Pediatric massage is very similar but typically this is offered to school age children.
Students will review some common misconceptions held about infant massage and understand why they are not true.
This lecture gives a brief overview of how massage can benefit the baby and the parents / caregivers.
Students will better understand how infant massage can benefit the baby, parents and caregivers.
This lecture will help the student to understand why massage is so beneficial for the baby – Interaction, Relief, Relaxation and Stimulation. It discusses several of the most frequently experienced benefits of infant massage.
This lecture discusses how parents experience benefits when massaging their babies
Students will understand parents and caregiver specific benefits
This lecture reviews infant states and discusses the optimal state for massage.
Students will understand infant states and the best state to offer massage to a baby.
This lecture discusses infant cues which are the way a baby communicates. Cues can be positive and engaged or negative as the baby is overwhelmed or overstimulated. It explains why understanding your baby’s cues is so important.
Students will understand basic infant engagement and disengagement cues.
This lecture reviews 3 of the most frequently seen reflexes – palmar, plantar and rooting reflex.
Sudents will understand the newborn relexes most frequently seen when massaging a baby
This lecture reviews a few reasons why a baby may cry and how important it is to promptly respond to a crying baby.
Students will understand why repsonding and meeting a baby’s needs promptly is so important
This lecture gives a brief review of the recommended massage oils and those that are not ideal for infant massage.
Understand what massage oils are recommended for infant massage and why. Understand oils that are best avoided and why.
This lecture reviews what you should do and what you will need in preparation for the massage. It reviews a few ways to relax and explains why being relaxed is so important. It may also offer a laugh when you watch the instructor doing a few head rolls. It made her chuckle!
Students will understand what is needed to prepare for massage and why relaxation is important for you and the baby.
This lecture discusses how proper positioning is important and reviews some places to offer massage to your baby.
The student will have an understanding of where to offer massage.
This lecture discusses “asking permission” of the baby prior to starting to massage. It explains why permsiion is important and how to ask and how the baby communicates back through cues. It also review what you need for the massage – oil, towel, cloth. The video also mentions the environment as far as temperature and music.
The student will have a better understanding of what is needed for the massage and why asking permission of the baby is so important.
This video demonstrate strokes for your baby’s feet and legs. Once completed the student will be able to offer foot and leg massage to their baby.
This video will demonstrate massage strokes for hands and arms. The student will understand how hand and arm massage can be beneficial for their baby.
This video wll demonstrate some massage strokes for the chest and explain to the student how chest massage can help your baby.
This video will demonstrate some tummy massage strokes and explain the benefits of massaging your baby’s tummy.
This video demonstrates some back massage strokes and explains how back massage can benefit the baby.
This video demonstrates strokes that are better suited to newborn babies up to 6 weeks.
The video demonstrates strokes for the tummy that can help relieve symptoms of gas, colic and constipation. It also shows the student how to do a Gas and Colic routine for your baby.
The student will be able to use these exercise techniques with their baby.
The video demonstrates touch techniques that can be offered as an alternative to massage.
This video demonstrates how to swaddle a baby and explains how it can help a baby.
This video shows some alternatives to swaddling a baby with a swaddle blanket.
This is the last video and it briefly recaps the course content. It also gives the student the instructors contact information.
Requirements:
- This course is suitable for both expectant parents and grandparents and those with newborns and older babies.
- If you choose to try some of the strokes with your baby you will need a mat, towel, blanket for your baby to lie on.
- You will need an edible oil such as coconut, sunflower or other oil of choice
- Make sure the room temperature is comfortable
Meet your Instructor Melanie Wattles
RN, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, Pediatric Massage
Melanie is a Registered Nurse (RN), a Certified Infant Massage Instructor (CIMI 1 & 2) and a Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist ( CPMT). Melanie received her CIMI certification through the International Association of Infant Massage in 2001. She updated her skills in January 2014 and received her CIMI2 Certification through “WINC Without Borders” (World Institute for Nurturing Communication)
Melanie has over 25 years experience in Pediatric and Neonatal Nursing and has worked as a prenatal parent and RN educator for Seton /Ascension Health teaching Infant Massage.
Melanie also teaches Professional classes for Nurses, Doulas, Nannies, Teachers and Therapists.
1-Hour Online Course | $59.99*
(*or discounted rate)