While there are lots of home remedies on the internet to relieve the symptoms of colic in your baby, massage is one scientifically proven way you can bring them relief, while also creating important parent-child bonds.

Vimala McClure first recognized the value of massage for babies when she was working in an orphanage in India in the early 1970s. Babies with few other advantages in this world were lulled into sleep each night with a massage before bedtime.

Originally published in Body Sense magazine, Autumn/Winter 2008. Copyright 2008. Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. All rights reserved.