Touch and grow

By Pinky McKay

Stroking your baby’s silky skin, meeting her trusting gaze and taking turns at listening to her ‘coos’ and ‘goos’ then responding, telling her, “ your tiny toes are like little pink peas,” or “your legs are growing so long and strong,” is more than just a delightful way to enjoy your little one’s company. Massaging your baby 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. This loving interaction and sensory experience is hardwiring your baby’s immature brain for emotional and neurological development: as you touch and talk to your child and share eye contact, you stimulate the development of connections between nerve cells in your baby’s brain that will form foundations for thinking, feeling and learning.

Pinky McKay Baby Massage DVD

with Pinky McKay

$24.95 plus $5.95 postage & handling.

DVD preview:

• Help you understand your baby’s body language?
• Help your baby relax and sleep better?
• Relieve tummy pains, colic and constipation?

In this beautiful DVD, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, Internationally Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), mother of five and respected baby care author, Pinky McKay will show you how to calm and connect with your baby as you follow her simple step by step instructions to massage your baby.

Baby Massage Classes with Pinky 

A Certified Infant Massage Instructor and a member of Infant Massage Australia (www.infantmassage.org.au), Pinky was taught infant massage by a Sikh woman more than 20 years ago, and practised this ancient art with her own babies.

Pinky offers classes for loving parents and their babies where she will teach you how to give your baby a full body massage including specific strokes to help with difficulties such as colic and constipation. There is also emphasis on infant communication to help you develop confidence in your ability to interpret your baby's unique cues and discussion time at each class includes natural ways to encourage sleep and settling, how to incorporate massage in your daily routine, stress management for parents and how to continue massage as your baby becomes mobile.

BOOKINGS: Call Pinky (03) 98011997 or email pinky@pinkymckay.com.au

Private sessions

Private consultations in the comfort of your own home are also available - 2 hour visits can include Infant Massage instruction, breastfeeding advice and gentle sleep and settling support. Cost for private sessions is $240 for a single session and includes organic baby massage oil plus Pinky’s ‘Gentle Beginnings Baby Massage’ DVD. Contact Pinky for more information on (03) 9801 1997.

Mums groups

Pinky offers a limited number of sessions for mums’ groups – these cost $300 for a single session for up to up to 12  mums. Includes one massage session and handout for a mini massage as learned at this session. Organiser receives a free book and Pnky's baby massage DVD.