It is through our hands that we speak to our children.
That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language.
Understanding comes long after feeling.
SERVICES
Bonding is forming a unique, close relationship between you and your baby.
Eye and skin contact, smell, smiles and soothing vocal sounds, each play a part in the bonding process and are the essential elements of Infant Massage. Through observing and responding to your babies smiles, frowns, coos and kicks with the nurturing touch of Infant massage, you are re-enforcing the feelings of trust and respect. These feelings provide the foundation of your relationship for years to come.
- in situations where delayed bonding may occur- premature birth, caesarean delivery, medical complications, adoption, post-natal depression- infant massage provides the healing environment where you and your baby can re-establish your close relationship.
- if your baby has special needs, infant massage allows you to observe and respond to your babies unique signals with a deeper understanding.
- if you are a working parent massage can compensate for the separation by providing a special relaxing time for you and your baby.
- for fathers the nurturing environment and the close interaction of massage offers you a special opportunity to develop a deeper bond, parental confidence and handling skills.
Benefits:
For your Baby
- improves sleep patterns and your baby is more easily settled.
- proven relief from the distress of wind, colic and constipation with unique soothing strokes.
- strengthens the immune system functions, increasing resistance to illness.
- heightens alertness and sociability when your baby is awake.
For you as a Parent/Caregiver
increases your confidence and skills
creates a relaxing, special time for you to share with your baby
helps reduce feelings of anxiety and depression
enhances communication and provides a nurturing environment for conversation as your baby grows.
Why attend an Infant Massage Course?
- if you wish to get to know your baby, learn about baby cues, facial expressions, and cries.
- have fun and enhance your deep connection of love and respect between you.
- time together with other mums and bubs.
- if you have experienced situations where delayed bonding may occur- premature birth, caesarean delivery, medical complications, adoption, post-natal depression- infant massage provides the healing environment where you and your baby can re-establish your close relationship.
- if your baby has special needs, infant massage allows you to observe and respond to your babies unique signals with a deeper understanding
- if you are a working parent massage can compensate for the separation by providing a special relaxing time for you and your baby
- for fathers the nurturing environment and the close interaction of massage offers you a special opportunity to develop a deeper bond, parental confidence and handling skills
What does a course of Infant Massage involve?
- each course is individually structured to meet the needs of both you and your baby.
- careful consideration is given throughout the course so that your baby learns at his/her own pace
- Amanda demonstrates the strokes on a life-size doll. You are then able to follow the strokes with your baby
- strokes are taught a little at a time to ensure that you are confident, your baby’s tolerance levels can develop, and so that questions can be addressed at any stage.
- thus courses usually comprise of 3-5 sessions (1 per week), of 60-90 minutes duration.
- suitable for infants from 6 weeks of age.
Course costs:
Group classes:
Monday am at Burleigh Waters or Wednesday am at The Medical Sanctuary, Benowa
$120 for 4 x 1 hr week sessions.
Dad's class $30.
Minimum 4 mums per group (refer a friend and receive a discount!).
Private classes:
$150 -held at your own residence-3 sessions
$170-the ultimate in tuition for you and your baby, dad's class included, held at your own residence - 4 sessions.
Gift Certificates available.
Instruction portfolio and sweet almond oil provided.
Amanda is an accredited and experienced instructor with Infant Massage Australia. The strokes are easier to grasp when personally demonstrated. Pressure, rate, rhythm, the length of the massage, respect, bonding, why babies cry, reading a baby’s body language and parent empowerment are SOME of the skills and topics taught.
Teaching mothers and birth companions
techniques for safe and satisfying birthing
through guided imagery, visualization,
and special breathing
The HypnoBirthing® Childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing. From 1990, HypnoBirthing® The Marie Mongan Method, has been taught to women all over the world, providing a safe and empowering method to birth naturally, helping women achieve their goals.
HypnoBirthing® teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen or eliminate discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films showing laboring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you can when you are free of the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.
HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding birth muscles.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing® , you will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed, and enjoy the benefits of natural birth.
HypnoBirthing® offers some wonderful advantages:
-Teaches deep levels of relaxation techniques to eliminate the fear that causes tension and pain.
-Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical painkillers and drugs, routinely offered even for "natural vaginal birth".
-Shortens the first phase of labor.
-Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently breathe her baby into the world without violence of hard, physical pushing. This helps keep oxygen supply to the baby during birthing.
-Reduces the need for episiotomy.
-Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labor. Imagine being alert, fresh, awake with energy, to bond with your baby.
-Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby.
-Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing.
-Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting.
Classes to be completed by 36 weeks gestation or 35 weeks for twins.
Group classes held at The Medical Sanctuary, Benowa or Atlantis Rising Healing Centre, Coolangatta
Private classes (at your home), available.
Classes consist of 5 x 2.5 hour lessons. All materials included.
Bookings essential.
I provide information for Multiple Pregnancy and HypnoBirthing.
For further information please phone Amanda Bude:
ph: 0412238854 |
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QUALIFICATION DETAILS
- Infant Massage Practitioner
- Registered Nurse
- Registered Midwifev
- Infertility Nurse
- Hypnobirthing Practitonerv
- Reiki Practitioner
- NLP Practitioner
- Mum of three ( a toddler and twins!)
Hypnobirthing, Infant Massage
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