Abstract

My role, both as a midwife and massage therapist, enables me to support women and partners using massage with their baby. Positive touch and baby massage is a popular approach that promotes infant wellbeing whilst easing parents into the new beginnings of the fourth trimester – the first three months after birth. The fourth trimester can be challenging for new parents, but baby massage can promote responsive interactions that facilitates parents’ confidence that they are able to calm, soothe and comfort their babies.1 In turn, this can enhance their connections together as a family.1 Despite a lack of robust evidence regarding infant massage, there is no suggestion that massage causes harm.2 Its contemporary popularity is well demonstrated within our postnatal care and growing numbers of private classes and multicultural history worldwide.3,4

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