Baby massage is one of the finest skill a parent can acquire and 'Developmental Baby Massage is designed to the needs of your baby from birth to standing. Baby massage will help your baby to thrive.Skin to skin contact is the principle regulator of broodiness and the more the new born baby is held and stroked the stronger maternal and paternal instincts aroused. Limbic regulation is the term used for a synchronised hormonal exchange between a mother and child which regulates her baby’s vital rhythms but for fathers also baby massage is highly beneficial to the relationship

A baby’s first contact with this world and the life that goes on around them comes through their sense of touch. It is skin to skin contact that ensures our contact with reality until all our other senses are fully developed and integrated.

With babies limbic regulation shows itself to be interdependent upon skin to skin contact with the mother, at times her regulatory processes being vital to the maintenance of her baby's physical and emotional health, mainly through the reduction of stress hormones like cortisol.
This regulatory information vital to infants can alter hormone levels, heart rates, breathing rates, sleep rythms, immune function and more

In premature babies for example, it’s been shown that the temperature of a baby in an incubator, even though the incubator remains warm, can be a whole degree lower than the temperature of a baby in skin to skin contact with his mother.

When placed with their mother, skin to skin contact stimulates the mother’s temperature to rise a whole degree in order to raise her baby’s temperature, or similarly will drop if her baby’s temperature needs to be lower. This mother and child interaction is known as ‘thermal synchrony’.

Similarly a breathing dysfunction known as ‘periodic breathing’ long thought to be normal among premature and other babies removed from their mothers, disappears immediately the baby is placed back in his mother’s arms.