Throughout history, most people have shown a common need to give and receive love, and to nurture and care for other human beings, especially one's own family. The deep inner drive from Mother Nature sets the stage for human need to nest and procreate. Before a baby is conceived, there is physical contact, often accompanied by love, between parents. The child is the result of physical contact between man and woman, meeting in the act of love, intimacy and touch. After birth, the baby's instinctive survival mechanism is a drive for physical connection to the parental figures.
Touch creates human emotions and feelings.
Making baby ready for massage. Even with the smallest of infants, ACHT hormones can be stimulated in the brain. Massage can become an integral part of a baby's life for years to come. Parents who have learned how to give their baby a massage often say how wonderful it is to receive massage back from their children as they grow older. The aftereffects of massage seem to live on in our children.