Packaged in diapers and suits, the baby is like an astronaut not only externally. He is limited in movements and is isolated from everyone in his carriage, he seems suspended in the air. Do you know what the astronauts do not have in orbit? Touch and tactile contact! So your little one, to grow healthy and happy, it is vitally important to establish physical contact with the outside world - to feel with all the skin the warmth of my mother's hands that massage him.
Pros "for"
With adults, everything is clear: a massage helps them with radiculitis and osteochondrosis, helps with the removal of fatigue, getting rid of excess weight. So what does this have to do with the kids? Yes, no, because baby massage for a child up to a year has a completely different purpose. It is designed to take into account all the characteristics of childhood: every day a small organism undergoes functional and morphological changes. In other words, while your baby can grow and develop literally by leaps and bounds, you are able to direct this delicate process in the right direction. The baby's organism is like a small tree: even if it starts to curl, it does not matter - it is corrected by careful hands in time, it will reach for the sun.
It is the correction of small deviations from the norm and the avoidance of them in the future is devoted to baby massage for a young child. This is when it comes to a healthy baby. If there are more serious problems, you may need a therapeutic massage - it has more special techniques, it lasts longer and involves a deliberate effect on weakened body functions. Only 4% of babies are currently born completely healthy. One is too slow, the other is very nervous, the third is clamped, the fourth is relaxed, the fifth is not sleeping well, the sixth is not sleeping almost in general, the seventh suffers from colic in the abdomen. Constant employment through massage with elements of gymnastics cope with almost all problems of this kind. And this is not surprising: the skin is a universal reflexagenic zone, its receptors are associated with various parts of the brain, guiding the work of internal organs. Gently stroking the little body of the baby, you charge it with energy and vivacity for the rest of your life, are laid in the baby's internal computer in the form of a long-term health program!
Surprisingly, but the fact: in the treatment of neuralgic and orthopedic disorders in children, massage has proven more effective than drugs, herbs, physiotherapy and other means of modern medicine. It helps with dysplasia of the hip joints, curvature, violation of muscle tone, increased excitability, lag in mobile development, manifestations of rickets, scoliosis, flat feet, the consequences of injuries and cerebral palsy, with respiratory diseases, digestive system and many other cases. Of course, only the doctor prescribes the indications for therapeutic massage. Such a massage should be done by a specialist, since this is a big load for the baby, and is carried out according to all the rules, the procedure lasts at least 30 minutes. The higher the qualification of a massage therapist, the better. A nurse who works in the massage room of a children's polyclinic has a standard set of techniques, but if you have the opportunity to invite a doctor who specializes in pediatric massage to your child, the benefits of the exercises will certainly be much greater. Therapeutic massage consists of courses: 12-20 procedures (every day or every other day) with a break of 3-4 weeks. But the general baby massage is the same for the baby, as for you - cleaning your teeth. You can do it all year round. Better than his mother will not do anybody. Mom's hands do wonders with the baby, which any professional masseur will envy. After all, you do not just mop and stroke your child, but give him tenderness, transfer your energy, which protects him from disease and gives a strong stimulus to development. Massage is usually done in the morning or in the afternoon, not earlier than 40-45 minutes after eating (before the feeding it is undesirable to do - the hungry child does not have the strength). The roots of many childhood problems are laid in early childhood, and massage and gymnastics early prevent the emergence of various psychological complexes, conflicts and diseases.
Miraculous touches
When stimulating the skin receptors in the brain of the baby, impulses develop that spread to adjacent parts of the central nervous system. They have an effect on them, like ringing an alarm clock in the morning. "Awakened" through the massage of the brain zone stimulates the organs to work in full force. At the same time, massage and gymnastics develop the baby, strengthen his muscles, have a general tonic effect. Significant is the local effect of the procedure: stroking the tummy clockwise, for example, normalizes the digestive tract. Massage promotes the renewal of epithelial cells, promotes the strengthening of barrier properties of the skin, improves local blood circulation, activates lymph flow, increases immunity and stimulates metabolism.
An essential feature of a child's massage for a child up to a year is that it is incomplete without physical exercises, which develop the musculoskeletal system and produce correct, physiologically more rational models of movements. The life of a small child is very monotonous, especially in the first months, and with the help of massage and gymnastics you will enrich it with new sensations. With employment, the kid receives a huge stimulus of mental development, not to mention the development of the physical. Regular sessions at a certain time synchronize daily biorhythms of the child's organism, on which sleep, appetite, growth rate, weight gain and other important things depend. Massage accustoms the child to the regime and a certain rhythm of life, and in the distant psychological plan lays a habit of internal discipline, concentration and organization. In the future, these qualities will help your child more than once! In addition, during the massage the mechanisms of thermoregulation are improved, the baby takes an air bath and becomes hardened. The main requirement is that the massage should please the child and make him enjoy.