Birth to 1 year - 'A Gift of Touch'
Baby Massage is a wonderful experience for both parent and baby. It can strengthen bonding and will give you added confidence in handling your baby. It will help stimulate growth and development, especially baby's social and emotional development, ease colic, wind, constipation, teething pain, and create a sleep pattern, benefiting baby AND you! Baby Massage will aid recovery of postnatal depression and will help ease any feelings of isolation felt by many new mums.
What To Expect From A Course
Each class is unique, but are guaranteed to be fun, sociable, relaxed and sometimes noisy. Anything goes, baby is boss!
Over the 4 or 5 week course we build up the routine, each week a copy of the week's routine will be yours to take home to practice and enjoy with your baby. Rhymes, songs and lullabies are incorporated into the routines to maximise benefits and add to the enjoyment.
- Week 1 : Legs
- Week 2 : Stomach (Including separate Colic Routine)
- Week 3 : Chest, Arms and Hands
- Week 4 : Face and Back
- Week 5 / Rolling Sessions : Overall recap, Gentle Exercise Movements, Dad's turn!
As well as learning to massage your baby we will talk about the benefits in more detail, recognising and following baby's cues, which oils to use and how to adapt the massage as your baby grows.
Each class is a minimum of 75 minutes. Refreshments are included giving you a chance to relax, chat to the other parents and feed your baby if necessary.
It is popular for ante-natal groups to come as one whole group; these are great fun and a great way of keeping in contact. These can take place in your own homes with each person taking a turn to host. When I disappear you carry on having fun.
NCT MEMBERS (Sutton & Epsom Branch)- Book as a group and quote 'NCT' and I will be giving the local branch a donation. Details about the course can also be found on your members page
SURESTART CHILDREN'S CENTRE BANSTEAD - Brand new classes run for and on behalf of Surestart in Banstead. You can book these through me or through the centre itself(01737 362058)These classes are for individual bookings only and are a great way to meet new mum's in the area.
Special circumstances:
- I know that not everyone will feel comfortable joining a group so for the same price, but run over 2 sessions I can give individual tuition for you and your baby.
- Are you a young mum, a teen mum who is not confident about joining a group? If so then please give me a ring or email me as I would love to meet you too and show you how much fun baby massage can be.
- Massage will benefit babies with special needs as touch is not a treatment or therapy but a form of communication. All I ask is that you contact your health professional first to find out more about your baby's health in relationship to massage.
- Is your baby premature, massage can help as a calming and comforting strategy?
Baby Massage
Oils, Mats, Cushions, Handouts and Refreshments provided Please bring your own towels, wipes, nappy sacks etcCourse Dates
For all bookings and enquiries please contact me
Thursday Mornings - 11am-12.30pm (Now accepting bookings for September 09)
Thursday Afternoons - 2pm-3pm. This course is held at the new Surestart Children's Centre in Banstead (New course starting 3rd September 09)
Friday Mornings - 11am-12.30pm (Now accepting bookings for September 09)
Other days available by special arrangement. Please contact me
Rolling programme
This programme is open to parents who have already attended my 4 or 5 week baby massage course. The rolling programme has been designed to help you keep the massage going once the course has finished, giving you a chance to practice any strokes that you are not sure of. It will also enable you to keep in touch with other parents, meet new parents and to swap ideas. This class caters for your individual needs.
I will be running these sessions in between my courses at Surestart Children's Centre in Banstead on a Thursday afternoon from 2-3pm. Dates TBA, possibly 5th Nov 09.
Oils, Mats, Cushions, Handouts and Refreshments provided Please bring your own towels, wipes, nappy sacks etcCourse Dates
For all bookings and enquiries please contact me