An amazing research reveals that digestive system’s strength is boosted up with touch. Infants who receive the right ‘touch’ respond by secreting large quantities of digestive enzymes which enhance their digestion. This is why infant massage is such a great method to cure babies who are suffering from colic.
Sound sleep is also a positive side effect of touch. Those babies who do not get sound sleep benefit a lot from infant massage. It’s a reality that babies who have had a sound sleep do not end up becoming hyper-active and throw tantrums. Babies have no other way to communicate other than their cries, and one may easily notice how they keep quiet and stop crying the moment they get into the right hands who know how to administrate the right touch. The power of touch is quite apparent when you shake hands with someone. With touch alone, one can easily determine whether it displays warmth and confidence, or weakness, or friendship and love, or hostility. When an infant is touched with warmth and confidence, it immediately senses the care bestowed on it and responds favorably.