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A Hands-on Infant Massage and Movement Program

Learn to massage and move your baby to enhance brain development and integrate primitive reflexes

This program offers suggestions on easy things you can do at home to promote healthy brain development for your baby.

In this program, you will learn about
the Five Pillars of Healthy Brain Development

Touch - besides infant massage, there are many ways that you can touch and hold your baby to help your baby learn about their body

Movement - proper movement is key for growing brains. We will show you specific movements that are fun to do AND stimulate your baby’s brain at the same time

Primitive Reflex Integration - babies have automatic movements that they do after birth. In this section, we discuss what primitive reflexes are and how you can move and play with your baby to help these primitive reflexes naturally fade away (integrate)

Rhythm and Sound - here we discuss many different ways to include rhythmic touch, rhythmic movement, rhythmic sounds and rhythmic play in your baby’s day

Sensory Play - babies need to explore their world through their senses. We discuss in this section many ways to help your baby experience stimulation of all their senses

Best Beginnings includes:

A complete infant massage program

  • 40+ videos for you to learn how to massage your baby

  • A pdf stroke guide that you can print out and keep handy

  • How to choose the best location

  • Easy things you can do to enhance the massage experience for you both

  • What oils to choose

  • How much pressure to use

  • When to start, when to stop and the quiet alert phase

Information on Primitive Reflexes

  • What they are, how they integrate and how to help your baby integrate their primitive reflexes

  • The 9 most Common Primitive Reflexes - why they are important and behaviours that can exist if they don’t integrate

Movement and Play guides

  • The importance of tummy time — when to start and how much time is recommended

  • How movement helps stimulate your baby’s brain

  • Specific movements that you can include in your play to stimulate your baby’s primitive reflexes

  • A pdf movement play guide for you to remember these movements

  • What to do if your baby is not moving properly

How to organize your home so that your baby can thrive

  • How to set up designated play areas

  • How to add sensory Play into your baby’s day

  • The importance of messy play

  • What is free play?

Additional Resources

  • an infant massage stroke sheet including pictures to help beginners remember the strokes

  • a condensed 2-page infant massage stroke sheet for confident parents

  • a guide to help you remember fun movements to add to play time

  • a one page summary of songs you can sing to Baby

  • a Geeky Summary of all the ways this program will stimulate Baby’s mind, to ultimately help integrate their primitive reflexes

  • 150+ references

Please use the code BETA for it to be free

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If you find any typos, or if something doesn’t make sense….

please email Dr. Melanie at drmelanie@bestbeginnings.ca