Benefits of EFI Touch Therapy(TM) for Infants & Children

Mothers the world over know instinctively their babies and children need to be held, rocked and touched. This touch is a natural extension of the tactile, sensory and moving environment the baby experienced in the womb.

Babies learn to continue the cycles of ebb and flow, rest and activity learned prenatally in their new post-natal world. Therapeutic, loving touch can help a newborn, to organize, process and integrate the multitudes of direct stimulations that are no longer buffered like in their prenatal environment, as well as to support the older child to develop a resilient nervous system appropriate for each stage of maturation.

 

Gentle, loving touch, just right for babies, is a natural part of parenting in cultures throughout the world. This gentle touch helps your baby's body to feel loved and recognized as well as to help all systems to function smoothly and at their best. Babies look forward to this special touch time, releasing any stress naturally through crying and relaxing into easy breathing and frequently a deep sleep. Dads, birth partners, grandparents and older siblings frequently find EFI Infant Touch Therapy a great way for them to have special time with the new baby while Mom has a break.

 

• Relief - massage can relieve discomfort from teething, congestion, gas, colic and emotional stress.
  

• Bonding - more intimate interaction with parent and baby/child helping to foster the parent/infant bond.
  

• Skin Stimulation - all the physiological systems are stimulated by massage. It speeds myelination of the brain/nervous system.
  

• Balanced Breathing - helps to increase oxygen and nutrient flow to cells and to deepen respiration; helps maintain stable oxygenation when subject to stress.
  

• Sleep - helps baby/child to sleep deeper and longer.
  

• Senses - helps to improve sensory awareness and mid-line orientation; helps baby handle sensory input in a relaxed state; supports organization of the nervous system.
  

• Maturation - helps maturation and activity of sympathetic nervous system; enhances neurological-muscular-bone development; helps regulate smooth state transition.
  

• Digestion - helps stimulate circulatory and GI systems; helps relieve colic or “gassy spells” in infants and children.
  

• Immune system - improves immune function.
  

• Vocalization and Eye Contact - helps increase eye-to-eye contact between baby/child and parent and vocalizations; helps baby be heard and acknowledged
  

• Stress - Helps baby/child develop a pattern for stress release and learning to relax.
  

• Reduces stress hormones - altersEEG in direction of relaxed and heightened awareness.