Saturday, March 27, 2004

I Used To Think It Was Creepy, But Toby Is A Genius!

20 Ways to Boost Your Baby's Brain Power
By Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D.

#10. Use BODY MASSAGE to decrease your infant's stress and enhance his feelings of well-being and emotional security. Loving touches promote growth in young babies. Research has shown that premature babies who are massaged three times daily are ready to leave the hospital days earlier than babies who do not receive massages.

Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D., professor emerita at Syracuse University, is the author, with H. Brophy, of Talking With Your Baby: Family as the First School.

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