How to give your baby a relaxing facial massage

On many occasions, we notice how our little baby is a little more stressed and restless than usual and, in most cases, we do not know how to act in this situation. So the best thing is that you take a pen and paper and take note of the steps you have to follow to perform the perfect facial massage that will achieve that, through some key movements of our hands on his face, our baby becomes relaxed in a way. snapshot.

In general, babies sometimes feel a little stressed and overwhelmed because in their mother’s womb they are surrounded by amniotic fluid that provides warmth and security. It is at the moment in which they come into the world when they look insecure due to the absence of this amniotic fluid and that is why we must show them our love and give them security with this type of massage.

Thanks to the facial massage, our baby will establish a relationship of trust with us. To begin, you have to keep in mind that the maneuvers that we are going to tell you below have to be soft, light and done with affection so that our baby feels loved.

HOW TO DO A FACIAL MASSAGE TO THE BABY, STEP BY STEP

We will start with the upper part of the face , that is, the forehead. We will place our fingers in the center of our baby’s forehead and little by little we will move them outwards. We will combine this movement with small punctures in the center of the baby’s forehead with the tips of our thumbs, which will help them relax.

Continuing with the massage on our baby’s face, we will go down to the eyebrow area. To do this, we are going to gently pinch the eyebrow area with the thumb and index finger from the inside to the outside. Repeat this maneuver between 3 and 4 times so that the baby can relax one hundred percent.

We will continue with the eye area , in which we will make small circles with the index fingers and thumb again. We will go down to the cheekbones and again we will go up through the browbones, like this for 2 or 3 repetitions.

Moving on to the area of ​​our baby’s face where the cheekbones are, we are going to press up to the jaw area with our thumb and in a loving way. This is an area where great tension is concentrated because our baby may be in a stage in which his teeth are beginning to come out and this step is very important to relax the little one.

In a very delicate way, we come to one of the parts of the facial massage with which we have to be more careful: the mouth . For this we are going to make small caresses around his lips, in a circular way, from right to left and above and below the baby’s lips. We will finish this area by exerting a little pressure on the chin area, approximately three times.

To finish with the facial massage, we will go to the area of ​​the ears where, with the thumb, index and middle finger, we will make small caresses on the part of the lobe. We will go little by little ascending to the upper area and we will repeat the same process with the other ear.

Remember that the most important and the main objective of performing this massage is to relax your baby and we must always adhere to the needs that it shows, so that we can get a little out of the scheme that we have done previously and stop more in the areas with those that show a greater state of relaxation.