Reasons of oil massage for newborn baby & mother

According to Grandma’s secret to prevent the friction between hands and baby’s skin oil massages have a variety of benefits. The massage helps your baby to feel relaxed and improve your sleep and promote healthy growth. 

The health benefits of massage for a newborn:

• Massage provides comfort:

To stimulate the circulatory and digestive systems baby massage is very necessary. This also improves the gas, cramps, colic, and constipation among newborn babies. Muscular tension, growing pains, and teething pain are common among babies but massage helps to provide comfort.

• Massage facilitates weight gain:

If you want to promote the growth and overall health of a child then baby massage is very essential. According to studies with proper massage chances of weight gain among babies increase more than the premature babies. They appeared more aware and their bone density also increases quickly as compared to those who did not receive proper massage. 

• Massage reduces stress:

According to Grandma’s Secrets to reduce stress and to improve heart rate variability massage therapy is very essential. So body massage is best in reducing stress and promoting the maturation of preemies. 

• Massage promotes sleep:

Massage helps in lowers levels of cortisol and stress hormone among newborn babies. Melatonins regulate the sleep cycle among babies and with proper massage babies sleep faster and sleep longer. 

Baby massage is safe or not?

• The Baby’s skin is delicately soft and sensitive. So you need to take some precautions and safety measures:
• Oil can easily dip into the eyes and mouth of a baby if you massage it on the face. So it’s better to avoid face massage. 
• Don’t be harsh on the baby’s soft skin and avoid deep massage as they are not ready for it.
• Avoid 1 or 2 hours massage on little ones. Keep the massage short only for 5-10 minutes.
• Stop massaging if the baby starts crying or falling asleep.
• Avoid using artificial dyes, perfumes, and parabens on the baby’s skin. 
• Oil massage can make babies' skin slippery so it’s important to handle your baby with extra care. 
• Always adopt the proper method of massage and provide proper support to the ankle and wrist with your hand. 

Benefits of massage for a mother:

Post Pregnancy care is very essential for mothers. It helps mothers to feel relaxed and improve the blood circulation among babies. 

• Reduce swelling:

Pressure may be increased on blood vessels due to heavy uterus and imbalance of hormones and this leads to water retention and swelling of the joints. So it’s important to massage the soft tissues of the body to improve circulation and easily eliminate the fluid and toxins.

• Improves Breastfeeding:

It’s important to stimulate the breast tissues so Postnatal massages with special techniques are very beneficial. 

• Reduce risks of Blocks and lumps in the breasts:

A proper massage is very essential to improve the milk flow and loosen out lumps. If you have a blocked milk duct in the breast then mastitis bacterial infection can be the reason. 

• Improve Stability, Posture, and Coordination:

It might be possible that core muscles stretch and become weak during pregnancy. A Grandma’s Secret involves postnatal massage to make the connective tissues relaxed. This is also beneficial to increase your strength. 

• Reduce Stress:

For some women’s pregnancy can be very stressful because the body goes through many changes. A postnatal massage helps to beat the unwanted stress among mothers. 

• Helpful in glowing skin:

Massage improves blood circulation and helps stretch tissues. Massage is also helpful in reducing pregnancy stretch marks and glowing your skin.

• Helpful in returning to Pre- Pregnancy body:

Massage helps in returning your body to Pre-Pregnancy. This will tuck your tummy back in by working on the muscles. Massage also improves blood flow among mothers and strengthens muscles.