Infant Massage to Help Eliminate Baby Colic

Would you like the cure for your infant's constant screaming from gas pain caused by baby colic? Jini Patel Thompson may have your solution with her DVD, Baby Fart Aerobics.

How baby farting brings relief for colicky crying

The name may sound funny, but the procedure described on the DVD is not. Jini Patel Thompson is a professional in the area of organic treatments for digestive problems. She is the author of Listen to Your Gut and The IBD Remission Diet. She was afflicted with Chron's disease before healing herself via natural methods.

Thompson has herself survived baby colic. When she used her own experience with bowel ailments to assist her baby's colic, she was laying the groundwork for Baby Fart Aerobics. Thompson ascertains if you continually perform the colic massage and the basic aerobic regime outlined on the DVD for several weeks, your baby's colic will completely cease.

She definitely thinks that baby colic originates from bound up gas and poop locked inside your baby's intestines. Baby Fart Aerobics instructs you on how to do specific infant massage motions and exercises created to make the pelvis and bowels limber. Thompson believes that when your baby participates in the "aerobic" part of the program; the bottled up gas and poop will break down and be eliminated, leaving your baby free of colic, pain, and gas.

Thompson isn't the only expert who recommends colic massage and aerobic treatments for baby. Doctor Harvey Karp, in his book The Happiest Baby on the Block, describes an infant massage method that finishes with a baby having her legs bicycled and stomach rubbed to assist with the elimination of gas or poop.

Furthermore, a whole new industry has been created around baby yoga-type classes. One of the acknowledged benefits of baby yoga is improved digestion and less colic. The core routine of Baby Fart Aerobics is a lot like baby yoga.

Babies Need to be Touched

However there are also additional advantages from doing the gas/poop elimination methods in Baby Fart Aerobics. As well as taking care of problems with baby colic, you are also offering your baby something she actually needs; your touch.

Why do babies desire to be touched? Consider it. When the baby is in your womb, it received consistent cuddling. Letting her recall the time she was a fetus helps her to relax. According to some studies, it can even improve your baby's growth!

Doctor Tiffany Field preformed studies back in 1982, using premature babies that had a massage, compared to premature babies that didn't have a massage, resulting in an amazing outcome. For fifteen minutes each day, nurses gave a massage to a group of preemies. They performed the routine of massage for ten days, three times each week. The premature baby group put on 47% more weight than the baby group without a massage. And even more than this, the premature babies who had a massage were able to go home a week before the premature babies who did not have a massage.

Infant massage has an effect that is quite similar on babies who are full term.

If you would like your baby to cry less, be more alert, put on weight quickly, and be less stressed, try a 15 minute massage.

And, if your baby's colic just won't go away, why not try Baby Fart Aerobics as well?