Infant Massage?

An article in the Star newspaper today entitled "Miracle baby is two years old" stated that infant massage that was practised by the mother on the little baby when her chance of survival was slim encouraged the baby to grow healthily.

I met a medical doctor on Sunday who had been practising for the last few decades. He said that this new development has not been taught before in medical stream. And he said jokingly that in future, people will develop a new technique called "unborn baby massage". I think it may materialise as well as the Medicinenet's website has a topic on Bonding With Baby Before Birth already.

From the Childbirth's website on What Is Infant Massage?, what has been explained was infant massage was related to touching by the parents that would generate bonding which aids growth and development. So, it's no big deal after all. Every parents have been doing that all this while.

But the International Association of Infant Massage has developed a course to produce Certified Infant Massage Instructors that will train parents and caregivers to massage their babies.

Is this Infant Massage a new medical breakthrough or some practise being commercialised to a larger extent throughout the whole world now?
Tags: Medical Breakthrough, Health, Infant Massage, International Association of Infant Massage, Certified Infant Massage Instructors, Bonding, Parents