INFANT MASSAGE CLASSES IN THE MIDLANDS SUPPORT VULNERABLE PARENTS

The Perinatal community mental health team came together in June 2017. We are a service that supports Mothers and their babies from conception up until the baby is 12 months old. The team supports mothers and their babies with issues regarding bonding and attachment,...

WORKING WITH FOSTER FAMILIES

Nurturing Touch Bringing Families Together I am a newly qualified IAIM instructor and loving every minute of working with mums, dads and babies. I am due to start working with another group of parents and babies this week and am so looking forward to the exciting and...
WORKING WITH THE POLISH COMMUNITY

WORKING WITH THE POLISH COMMUNITY

WORKING WITH THE POLISH COMMUNITY – BUILDING LINKS IN OUR COMMUNITY. I am a family practitioner level 1 and I work in Carousel children’s centre. My role is to support vulnerable families, one of the ways we do this is by delivering infant massage sessions to promote...

BENEFITS OF BABY MASSAGE, A PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE

I have been a Health Visitor for over 30 years, and a CIMI since early 2000`s, trained by Sylvie Hetu. The area that I was working in then, baby massage was offered to all and classes run routinely by Health Visitors and the Nursery Nurses. This was then taken over by...

THOUGHTS FROM A NEWLY QUALIFIED IAIM INSTRUCTOR

Initially I had 10 mums booked onto my first course since becoming a fully-fledged Infant Massage instructor. Gradually people pulled out until I finally had 5 mums booked onto the course. I was nervous but as the weeks have gone by I have grown in confidence and I am...