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Welcome to Baby's First Massage®

• Learn how to massage a baby as soon after birth as possible
  - Visit Our Store for a huge selection of products including our own DVD and handbook
• Learn through a training that is successful, enjoyable, and based on research
  
• Find support materials for start up in your personal business or within clinical settings
  
• Learn through hands on workshops or home study (available globally)
• Find leads from new families looking for instructers

Our Testimonial page will give you a good idea of how Baby's First Massage® has helped families worldwide.

YouTube Update

You can now view 3 minute segments from most of the DVD's available at Our Store. Look for the buttons!

New Parents!

While all the information on our website may not interest you, all of what we do is to help your experience as a new parent be peaceful, enjoyable, and less stressful. We know most new parents are sleep deprived for a few weeks or months, even. Did you know one of the best benefits for regular massage with your baby is deeper more restful sleep? The other great benefit is to help smooth out those gassy episodes as your baby's digestive system gets used to processing feedings. You will find the way massage is taught through Baby's First Massage® is simple, easy to learn, and requires very little in terms of products to use. The "Loving Your Newborn: Intuitive Touch" DVD partners up with The Little Book of Baby's First Massage to make it easy to learn how to massage your baby as soon after birth as possible. You will find these at Our Store.

Baby's First Massage® featured in The AMTA Journal

The AMTA Journal, "MTJ" Winter, 2006 issue has a fine article on infant massage. Baby's First Massage® is included in the article! It's a well written, informative article. Enjoy! Read/download here.

Baby Massage Programs and Support Materials

Baby's First Massage® provides high-quality programs and support materials for people who want to teach newborn massage to new families. Since 1992, we have trained several thousand people - from health care professionals to new parents - in the practice and art of newborn massage. The approach to massage with the newborn baby is based on sensitivity to the baby's responses and readiness of the baby, along with basic physiologic readiness. That would include being able to take feedings, weighing at least 3 pounds, and being at least around 31 weeks or more in gestational age.

Continuing Education and Home Study Available

Continuing Education contact hours for nurses, massage therapists, doulas, and allied healthcare professionals are available. The on site workshops offer 9-11 contact hours. The Home Study offers 22 contact hours, and the Certification Session offers an additional 5 contact hours to the Home Study (for a total of 27 contact hours), if a participant chooses that learning track.

The training for the instructor is based on research of massage with babies in the intensive care unit, and healthy newborns. The instructor learns how to teach new parents to interpret baby's cries, how to understand time out signals, how to comfort their babies...and a gentle massage that helps the baby with digestion, elimination, weight gain, and deeper more restful sleep.

Instructors have been able to implement Baby's First Massage® programs in hospitals, doctor's offices, lactation consultant practices, with doulas, in spas and private massage practices, in community centers, and many other places.

The training program takes the learner into the subject deeply enough that on completion, she or he would be confident to teach families of:

On site workshops are offered throughout the USA and our home study program is available worldwide. Certification Sessions combine the Home Study with a half day of "hands on" training. Click on "Certification Session" page to learn the details of this option. These Sessions are available in cities where there are "Certification Coaches." Certification as a newborn massage instructor is available with every learning choice.

Become a Certified Newborn Massage Instructor and Mentor or Train for Baby's First Massage®

Continuing Growth and Development as a Certified Newborn Massage Instructor may appeal to those of you that have been actively teaching newborn massage. The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork has issued a requirement for all Independent Study programs to provide a vehicle for hands on learning by someone trained in the program. If you have attended an Onsite Workshop or a Certification Session with the Baby's First Massage® program at anytime since 1993, and want to be a mentor for new learners, or assist massage schools in integrating Baby's First Massage® into their curriculum, then please contact Teresa at: teresa@babysfirstmassage.com . If it has been a few years since you were trained, you would be required to attend a refresher course with a Trainer in a half day session or a special workshop for this purpose. Please see the workshop schedule page for further information.

Infant Massage instructor training programs

If your interest is in learning how to teach parents of "older" infants,or learning to teach a more involved massage sequence usually taught in a series of classes, please consider contacting one of the following Infant Massage instructor training programs: Healthy Family Living, Infant Massage USA, or International Institute of Infant Massage for their 3-4 day certification training.

Gifts for New Families

In our store, you will find several products that are ideal for classes and for gifts for new families. If you have any questions about any of our products, please email at teresa@babysfirstmassage.com Please contact Teresa directly for these at wholesale. Phone fax: 937-433-5000 EST 8 am-8 pm.

Helping Baby's First Massage® Serve

We are all becoming aware this is a global family. In the big picture, Baby's First Massage helps families anywhere on our planet. However, in the practical sense at this time, the part of the global family in the USA can use some help! Baby's First Massage has become partners with Infinitusinc, a not for profit organization, to offer a venue to obtain donations and grants. Your financial assistance will help babies and their families directly through several initiatives through Infinitusinc. If you are able to offer a financial gift to support these initiatives, please click on the section that says "Help BFM Serve." With your help, we can move forward more quickly and effectively. You can track the developments here in this section of the Home Page. We currently have $1130 towards the first goal of $5,000. We are moving forward with this goal,now. We are very close to printing and releasing for sale the Spanish Edition of "Baby's First Massage: the Gift of Gentle Touch for Your Newborn."Please go to "Helping BFM Serve" for current updates.