Massage for a child aged 3-4 months

At this age, several additional

elements can be added to the complex described above. For example, by massaging the handles and legs, you can add ring trimming to the stroking, which also needs to be finished with stroking. The baby's feet should also be massaged more vigorously, adding ring rubbing and light finger-flicking, ending with stroking. To massage the feet, you can add and a kind of gymnastics-massage: after rubbing the feet, press the thumb pad into the area of ​​the base of the fingers on the sole, with a reflex flexing of the toes;rubbing the edge of the foot will lead to their extension.

Performing stroking movements clockwise in the abdomen, they can be changed to oncoming, switching to rubbing the skin of the abdomen and ending with stroking.

Massage the back and buttocks can be varied by rubbing their entire surface, starting and ending with stroking.

To the first complex of exercises you can add a facial massage. It should be started from the middle line of the forehead. The stroking movements of the pads of the fingers move from it to the temples and down the cheeks, massaging the jaw region with the transition to the BTE.

To complement the complex, you can also: put the baby on the barrel and with the pads of the fingers gently carry on the longitudinal muscles holding the spine.

Massaging a child at the age of 4-6 months, it is possible to add vibration-

thoracic massage to previous techniques. To do this, the baby should be placed on the back and perform tapping with the fingertips first along the front surface of the chest, then on the sides. Then the child is tossed over and the same thing to be performed, tapping on the back.

Massage of a baby at the age of 6-9 months usually does not differ much from the above methods. But doctors have developed a special massage for children of this age, because they begin to sit and crawl, that is, they will soon go.

So, the complex begins with stroking the back from the waist to the head with the back side of both hands.

Then you should go to the tummy. For this child lying on the back, you need to stroke the palm of the hand clockwise, without pressing on the liver region. After this, you need to bring the palm of your hand under the waist and move them towards each other, before connecting with the navel.

The child lying on the back can bend and unbend the handles in the elbows, raise them to the sides, and then cross on the chest.

Go to the legs of the baby, they need to be stroked in the direction from the foot to the hip, and then bend both legs in the knees and lightly press against the tummy, after which they are not in a hurry to straighten. Then, making a sliding motion with a heel and a table, bend the leg in the knee.

Lying on the back of the baby should be given the opportunity to grasp the thumbs of the mother.

Then, pull his hands a little apart and pull the baby toward him, helping him sit down. After that, holding one hand with his hand, and the other - supporting the back and head, help to return to the starting position.

The kid who reached 9-12 months, it is useful to carry out all the same massage systems, but add to them a massage of the hand and fingers. To do this, you need to perform stroking and rubbing in circular motions along the fingers and hands.

As mentioned above, massage of newborns and infants is recommended to be carried out in parallel with the gymnastics, which will now be discussed. I would like to note that the following sets of exercises are developed and recommended by specialists, taking into account not only the physical, but also the neuropsychological development of the baby.