Ep. 46 The Power of Good Touch with CEO and Founder of Baby Strokes Infant/Child Massage, Melanie Wattles, RN, CIMI
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The episode discusses the benefits of infant massage on children's health and emotional development with expert Melanie Wattles.
Touch sends wordless messages of sympathy and security that humans benefit from no matter their age. Medical research reveals touch is also essential to a child's health and emotional and psychological development. ~American Academy of Pediatrics. Today's guest is registered nurse, certified infant massage instructor and certified pediatric massage therapist Melanie Wattles. Melanie the founder and CEO of Baby Strokes in Austin, Texas, where her goal is to promote infant child massage to facilitate bonding and to enable parents, babies, and children to experience the many benefits of massage. She says, cross-cultural studies show that in societies where babies are rocked and massaged, they tend to develop into adults that express compassion and caring rather than violence and aggression. Melanie believes that deep emotional bonds formed in infancy through touch, lay the foundation for a lifetime of love, trust, courage, and dependability. Today we'll discuss some of the many profoundly positive effects of infant massage on your child's physical health, including: more restful sleep positive effects on hormones relaxed muscles and increased flexibility better digestion less…
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