The benefits of massage are numerous! Touch, no matter how simple, is important for baby and their development.
Touch, is already what you do when you carry them, give them a bath... There are several types of touch, and in this article, I would like to talk more specifically about the containing touch, which I find particularly magical.

The containing touch is particularly suitable for many situations:
For children who do not want to be massaged, for children we cannot calm down, for disorganized children, "scattered"...
The technique has the advantage of being very simple. It suffices to use both hands, placing them at two opposite points on the baby's body, then applying gentle pressure while bringing our hands closer together (keeping the baby's body between our hands). This movement aims to "gather" the baby and has a calming, containing virtue... like in the mother's womb!

This technique is magical:
I have tested it on people of all ages and the reactions were quite surprising. With a baby who was crying and, as soon as his mother performed this touch, he stopped, started to fidget again if his mother removed her hands, and calmed down as soon as she put them back... Older, on a teenager who told me: "what you just did is great, it brought us together!". On an adult woman I performed this touch at the end of a massage session, and she told me it was her favorite moment.


I think that somewhere, deep inside each of us, who has known the containing womb of our mother, this touch brings us back to something very reassuring, archaic.






