Smart Baby Well Baby

Singing Songs and Nursery rhymes come join us at a neighborhood location for a new class or call us for a private
consultation class or a wonder age appropriate  birthday party that you baby and friends can really enjoy!

Learn how to joyfully incorporate infant massage, story telling, song, music and rhyme into your baby’s daily
health and learning routine.  Marie Dolores McCohnell and Debby K. Lang will join your local library or community
organization to bring you this wonderful class.

Music, song and rhyme couple with loving nurturing touch in the form of therapeutic infant massage is all most
babies dream about to make their world complete.  Oh what joy for your baby, to look into your loving eyes and
hear you warmly say “Do you want a massage?”  “Would you like me to rub your tummy and head to make my baby
feel all better?”  “Do you want to play? Do you want to sing a song with me while I rub your arms, legs and feet
with nice warm oil?”!  

We have all read articles that tell of the wonderful and vitally necessary health giving benefits of infant
massage, but we are just beginning to hear about and understand that nursery rhymes, music and song coupled
with therapeutic infant massage and the nurturing of soothing touch has the potential to (1) increase a baby’s
awareness  level, making him or her more alert and ready to learn; (2) greatly enhances his or her cognitive
development level and might lead to a more intelligent baby; (3) set the stage for your child becoming an early,
or good reader by emphasizing phonemic awareness of sound patterns in words and letters.  (4) to relax a baby
and provide a beautiful bonding exchange between you and your baby. (5) to assist in your knowing and
understanding your babies way of communicating his or her needs and feelings.  (6) help you learn to be fully
engaged in your infant’s biorhythms and happiness needs.

Other Benefits of Infant Massage for Baby
  • Relaxes child and helps to decrease stress for you and your baby.
  • Relieves discomfort from constipation, gas, and colic.  
  • Helps normalize muscle tone and improve blood circulation.
  • Helps baby sleep better (and, therefore, parents sleep better!).
  • Stimulates brain development and improves sensory awareness.
  • Babies cry less, as the parent is more responsive to babies’ cues.
  • Promotes bonding and attachment.
Infant Massage Instruction
About The Teachers:
Marie Dolores McCohnell, M.S.,
Certified Infant Massage Instructor is
owner of FOOD FOR HEARTS, Holistic
Health, Wellness and Education
Consultants.  She is an experienced
certified teacher and has her Master
Degree in Teaching the Gifted and more
importantly she is a mother and a
grandmother.   Marie has trained in many
holistic integrative therapies including
infant massage, reflexology and aroma
therapy to name just a few.   

Debby K. Lang, a grandmother of two,
is a certified infant massage teacher and
has years of experience working in the
public school system as a teacher assistant.
FOOD FOR HEARTS
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