Title: Touch Attachment: Infant Massage, Communicating Love through Touch
Date: May 14th, 2024
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST/ 6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
Description: The single most crucial ingredient in laying a healthy foundation for children is caring, nurturing relationships. For babies, this foundation develops as caregivers and parents build bonds and attachment. Caregivers are a baby’s first teacher, from initial communication skills and sweet coos to little fingers reaching for their mother’s dinner plate. Each part of the journey is remarkable and carves a special place in a caregiver’s heart. AIMHiTN strives to assist caregivers and families as they begin this journey, presenting a supportive collective of four trainings specifically targeting how caregivers can thrive in their pivotal role of bonding and attachment. Bonding with an infant is developed through consistent interactions from those that are most important around them: mothers, fathers, siblings, and caregivers alike. After this bond is strengthened, attachment wraps a baby in security and warmth, through an infant’s first two love languages: touch and feeding. To a newborn baby, there is nothing better than snuggling, being held during feedings, and sleeping in a parent’s arms. But did you know there is another, more intentional way to connect with baby through loving touch? Infant massage promotes both physical and psychosocial benefits for babies. Join us to learn about the benefits of infant massage, and a few techniques to help you get started through this third training in the Family Training Series.
Presenter(s): Denise McDrummond, M.E.d, IMH-E®, Certified Educator of Infant Massage