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To return to Handlebars for babies
The Shantala is an oriental massages skill for babies, used for many years in the India. The massage for babies is an art and a very ancient skill. Now then, the art will be turning out to be alone, here we will deal with the skill.
The baby must be naked, therefore the ambience must be warm. The massage must be done by oil or special cream for baby. It must happen during the morning, with the possibility of repeating the massage to the evening. With the empty pancita, the massage must always never be done immediately after the feeding-bottle or the breast.
You must be seated, preferably in the soil, with the widespread legs, the right back, and the distended shoulders. It places a towel on your legs, since the deep distension and the well-being that take place in the baby will do that possibly it empties his bladder.
Then your baby is put to bed, with the head towards the side of your feet, this way you can look at it to the eyes. Speak to him with tenderness, and with low volume.
Breast:
Once you place yourself the oil or cream in the hands, support them on his breast and slowly separate them as if you wanted to smooth the pages of an open book. It continues the direction of the ribs, then it returns to the center and returns towards the sides.
Now your hands will work for shifts. Part of the left flank of your baby and bundle that your right hand raises towards the opposite shoulder. It covers this way the whole breast up to coming to the shoulder.
Now your left hand departs from the right flank of the baby, and crosses to the left shoulder, this way your hands work one after other one. He remembers to support the slowness, always the same uniform rhythm. Without you you realizing, the pressure of your hands being increase little by little.
Arms:
It supports your baby on a side. For example the right, with your left hand it takes delicately the manito of your baby to extend the bracito. Then with the right hand, take the shoulder as if your hand was a bracelet, make it rise, slowly, for the arm of the baby, first with your right hand, then with your left hand, up to where the manito begins. Your hands work one after other one. Then you it turn round and do the same movements with another bracito.
Hands:
Now you will work with your thumbs, it massages with them the small palm, displaces your fingers from the base of his manito towards the deditos. Once you come to the fingers, only double them with gentleness. This will do that the blood runs of the palm towards the prostitutes of the fingers.
Belly:
Support your hands on the base of the breast of your baby and do that they descend gently towards the low part of the belly. It takes your hands one after other one perpendicularly and in flat form, as if there were waves. With your left hand take the piecitos of the baby and support his stuck-up and vertical piernitas. And with your right hand, do the same movement of wave, perpendicular and flat from the breast up to the belly of your baby.
Piernitas:
Your hands are 2 bracelets again, it takes the thigh of your baby with both hands, and them raise one after other one, covering the whole member up to coming to the foot. Then with your hands working in the opposite direction, do the same but realizing a small torsion, as if you were squeezing the piernita gently. Up to coming to the ankle, he insists on the ankle a few seconds. Then, it massages the plant of the piecito as you did it with the manito. Later, it changes leg and realizes the same in her.
Face:
It places to the baby mouth arrives and parallel to your legs. It starts by massaging the forehead, and slowly, the tops of your fingers rest on the center of the forehead, and slowly they are opened and covering the top part of the eyebrows. Then it returns to the center and whenever it recommences the movement, your fingers will have to come more open seas, more outside. It supports your fingers on the closed eyes of the baby. It descends slowly, bordering on the nose, covering the cheeks, and coming to the commissures of the mouth. It rises again, and repeats the exercise.
Back:
It places your baby transversely on your legs. The cabecita must stay to your left. The baby must be mouth below.
The first time:
It supports your hands on the espaldita, at a height of the shoulders. Bundle that your hands slide one after other one towards the waist of the baby. The palm works principally, and both flat hands. The swaying is born in the shoulders. They move slowly, for the shoulder blades, then for the base of the back, up to coming to the buttocks.
When a hand goes forward, other one is slow, and with this swaying it is moving slowly from left to right.
Second half:
Now only your left hand works. It covers the whole back, from the nape up to the buttocks, the hand leaves the cuerpito and begins again, provoking like a wave. He remembers that it must be slow, but without becoming a caress, in the hand there must be a certain force. Your right hand goes on the buttocks of the baby, and it will do opposition to the propulsion of the left hand.
Third time:
This massage is equal to the alone previous one that this movement is born with your hand in his nape and is sliding for all his back, happening for his buttocks, for the legs, to stop in the heels and to recommence. Your right hand supports the feet of the baby and supports the stuck-up legs. And your left hand is the one that produces the massage.