How to give a newborn massage: tips.
The newborn massage is a cuddle made by the mother that favors many benefits to the child, but it is a moment that also helps to strengthen the relationship between parents and children.
For this reason it is useful to know how to practice baby massage.
It is essential to know how to practice it and to observe the child's reactions. It starts from birth to 12 months, but even beyond, and the ideal would be to do it on a changing table or on the bed in order to be more comfortable and safe.
How to do it?
The newborn massage does not have a timing to follow is up to the child and the parent to decide from time to time, but there are various ways to perform it:
1. Adding a little delicate oil initially starts with the leg massage. Because the legs are less sensitive than other parts of the body, start wrapping your hands around one of her small thighs and move them down, hand after hand, squeezing gently.
2. We then move on to the feet. Take one foot and gently rotate it a few times in each direction. Then stroke the top of the foot from the ankle down to the toes. Change foot and repeat.
3. Then the arms, Take the child's arm in your hands and massage gently going from his armpit to the wrist.
4. Gently massage the chest and then the abdomen and back. By joining your hands in prayer position on the baby's heart, repeatedly and gently stroking your hands outward, use your fingertips for the back, draw small circles on both sides of his spine from the neck to the buttocks.
5. In the face, making light movements and being careful not to annoy the baby's face.
The benefits
• Sense of relaxation in children;
• Promote sleep;
• They reduce crying. 
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