How to massage a baby

Massage is needed for good development of the body. There are many types of massage, for it massage chairs, various adaptations and much more are used. Since infancy, you need to take care of the general health and spine. The baby can only be massageed with the permission of the doctor, starting at about 4 weeks of age and always strictly follow all the doctor's recommendations.

How to do massage to the baby, can only tell the doctor.

Contraindications

There are contraindications to the massage for young children. These include: rickets during an exacerbation, acute inflammatory skin diseases, various forms of diathesis, acute infectious diseases, femoral, inguinal, umbilical hernia, congenital heart defects. If there are no contraindications, then you can do massage from 3 weeks of age.

How to massage a baby?

It is necessary to gradually increase the time of the massage, until 2 months the massage should not be more than 4 minutes. The main actions - stroking, shaking, kneading and percussion techniques. Massage movements should be performed with fingers, with short cut nails, hands should be warm. Movements should resemble easy tapping on the table. From 4 months, the massage time should be increased to 6 minutes, and by the year increased to 10 minutes.

The basic rules of carrying out of children's massage

The room should be warm plus 22 plus 24 degrees, rays of light. The surface on which the baby is lying should not be too hard or too soft. This can be a sofa or table, which is covered with a diaper or blanket. When a baby is given a massage, the child with his feet should be located to the masseur. The movements of the masseur must be gentle, and fingers without rings. Massage for young children should be done without powders and lubricants. After the massage, put the baby in dry clean clothes. Especially carefully, you need to massage the areas of the spine, liver, kidneys. You can not massage in the genital area. The main thing: massage is carried out before feeding or an hour and a half after feeding.

Any massage begins with an easy and simple stroking and gradually turns into rubbing the muscles, but alternating with stroking. When the entire body of the child relaxes, you can add trituration and kneading. All movements must go to the center, that is, along the course of the vessels. The main movement of the massage is stroking the legs, it rises from the foot, past the knee cap, to the thigh. Foot feet should be carried out by rubbing and stroking from the heel to the toes. It is useful to stroke your hands. Massage the abdomen gently and very gently, do not touch the genitals. Massage the back from the buttocks to the neck, without affecting the spine.

To make a baby a massage, you need the help and advice of a doctor who will tell you how to massage your baby correctly.