Infant Massage Instruction
Healing touch for parents and babies.
Continuing Education at the nest
Essential Touch
Infant massage Instruction
Are you a new parent—or about to become one—and looking for a deeper way to connect with your baby? Infant massage instruction offers a powerful, nurturing approach that can help regulate your baby’s mood, promote healthy development, and strengthen the parent-child bond.
Or perhaps you’re searching for a meaningful gift for someone expecting a little one? This gentle, hands-on practice is a thoughtful way to support new families during a time of transition and growth.
Deepens parent + child connections
Nurtures developing newborns
Stabilizes and improves mood
Discover the magic of therapeutic touch.
Our Essential Touch Infant Massage Instruction course, taught by Nicole Budeau, AHH’s founder, is an exclusive Continuing Education at The Nest course offering that empowers parents and caregivers in a rewarding journey of love and connection.
With nine (9) instructional videos—a course overview and eight individual lessons with supplementary downloadable content—this virtual AHH education program explores therapeutic techniques and evidence-based strategies to help ease fussiness and stabilize mood, nurture healthy growth and development, and strengthen the parent-child connection.
Scientific research demonstrates several benefits to massage therapy for infants and children, including:
- Stabilizes mood, decreasing fussiness, crying, and other stress-related behaviors
- Encourages healthy weight gain for optimal development and growth
- Strengthens emotional bonds with parents and caregivers
- Improved sleep and higher levels of melatonin
Additional research also highlights the benefits of massage therapy on parents and caregivers, from reduced levels of depression and anxiety in mothers to enhanced father-infant interactions.
Learn more by enrolling in this AHH course today!
meet your instructor
Nicole Budeau
LMT, CPMT, IMI, Reiki master, Birth Doula (DONA)
Nicole is the owner of A Healer's Hand + The Nest and a licensed massage therapist (LMT), certified prenatal massage therapist (CPMT), certified infant massage instructor (CIMI), certified Reiki Master practitioner, and trained birth doula (DONA), and continuing education instructor. She has over 20 years of specialized experience providing therapeutic massage and massage education, including prenatal massage, natural labor stimulation, postpartum recovery massage, and infant massage instruction.
Client Testimonial
What a difference your workshop made! I used a lot of the moves…every single night from when my child was two months to about eight months old. It was a comforting and settling routine for both of us, and also for my partner who learned [the techniques] from me. My son would smile when I started rubbing my hands together and asked if he wanted a massage. It usually calmed him down if he was upset. The facial massage was perfect to end with, almost hypnotizing him in a way!
– Cynthia