Health & Life: Bond with your baby; It's part of everyday life in India and Africa, but it's only now catching on in the West. Women's Editor DIANE PARKES reports on the benefits of baby massage.

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: August 3, 1999| Author: PARKES, Women'S DIANE | Copyright information

BABIES love to be touched, and what better way than with practised baby massage?

Spending just a few minutes a day massaging a baby can help the infant sleep more easily, and can ease a whole range of digestive and skin complaints.

Massaging a child creates a close bond between the youngster and the parent, whether mother or father.

It is a quiet time to build up sensual and emotional links while the child is still tiny which will have long-lasting...

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