How to Massage a Baby Step by Step

Touching with massage therapy is very important for the baby. Not only for health, but also for baby's comfort. Baby massage should not be done by a nurse or an expert, you can do it yourself at home.

How to massage the baby? Follow the step by step below:


Before starting the massage, do some preparation steps :

1. washing your hands.
2. avoid nail and jewelry that can scratch baby's skin.
3. room for massaging is in warm and not stuffy condition.
4. do a massage to baby after eating or not being in a state of hunger.
5. try not to be disturbed in fifteen minutes to do the massage.
6. lay the baby on a soft cloth and clean flat.
7. mother / father sitting in a comfortable position.
8. before the massage, ask for permission to babies by stroking his face as he started talking.

After preparation, baby massage can begin. Here are how to massage the baby's body parts:

• Massage the baby's foot 

Start by holding the baby's feet in the groin such as how to hold a softball bat. Move your hands down alternately as milking and play. Hold the groin with hands simultaneously squeezing and twisting the baby's feet gently from the groin to the ankle. Then, your feet massaged with two thumbs alternately starting from the heel to the sole of the foot. Massage your toes one by one by turning away from the palm, ending tug gently on each finger. Then, squeeze and rotate the ankle with the thumb and other fingers. Wipe baby's feet with gentle pressure from the groin to the end.

• Massage the baby's stomach

Massage the baby's stomach from top to bottom like a bicycle pedaling motion. Abdominal massage began the top left to the bottom with your fingers to form letters I and L reversed.

• Massage the baby's chest

Create a movement upward to the neck and then to the right and left side above the clavicle and then back to the solar plexus. Diagonal movement in the chest (the letter X) from left to right.

• Massage the baby's arms

Squeeze and play with both hands gently from the shoulder to the wrist. Massage the palm of the hand with the palm to the thumb starts fingers. Wipe the back of the hand from the wrist to the fingers gently. Massage around the wrist with the thumb and forefinger.

• Massage the baby's face

Put your thumb between the baby's eyebrows. Massage gently with your thumb above the eyebrows and eyelids. Massage from mid-eyebrow down the side folds down through the nose.

• Massage the baby's back

Prone transverse. Back massage with movement back and forth along the spine from buttocks to neck. Make a circular motion with the fingers begin to limit back up to the buttocks.

I think short tips how to massage a baby safely above is enough to practice by yourself at home. Hopefully useful for you and your baby.

You can try to massage the baby at home with image instructions here :)