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Baby Massage brought to you by JOHNSON’S® Baby
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Ask permission. Sometimes a child may be tired and any stimulation is too much.
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Make a single downward stroke with your right hand on baby's left belly (your right). Make an upside down L going from your left to right. Make an upside down U going from your left to right.
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Start with both hands together at the top of the back. Move your hands back and forth in opposite directions, going down the back to the buttocks.
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First lift the arm and stroke the armpit a few times, massaging the important lymph nodes in that area.
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Hold hands together around baby's arm at the shoulder. Then move hands in opposite directions, back and forth, from the shoulder to the hand, gently squeezing as you do.
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Roll the legs between your hands from knee to ankle.
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With the thumbs make a smile on the upper, then lower lip.
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Using the outside of each hand, make paddling strokes on baby's tummy, one hand following the other.
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Using your fingertips, walk across baby's tummy from your left to right.
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Hold your baby's legs with your left hand and grasp the ankles. Repeat the paddling motion, using the right hand only.
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Hold the legs as if you were holding a baseball bat. Then move hands up the leg together, turning in opposite directions and squeezing slightly.
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With both hands together at the centre of the chest, softly push out to the sides, following the rib cage, as if you were flattening the pages of a book. Without lifting the hands from the body, bring them around in a heart shaped motion to the centre again.
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