Engaging with your baby through massage incorporates all the elements of parent - child bonding as it stimulates your little one's
senses through skin contact, eye contact and your familiar smell as well as hearing your voice and experiencing a focussed response.
Not exact matches
If left undisturbed after birth, in
skin - to -
skin contact with the mother, the newborn — guided especially by her
sense of smell and using her innate primitive reflexes - goes
through a predictable sequence of behaviors during which:
The reception of oxytocin from the mother to the infant
through skin to
skin contact triggers regulation of body temperature as well as a decrease in heart rate due to the relaxation caused by the emotional
sense of safety also caused by oxytocin reception.