Nurturing Touch: A cultural paradigm

Suzanne Reese

Key Takeaways:

  • The importance of nurturing touch and infant massage in strengthening parent-baby bonds.
  • Historically, cultural shifts have disrupted instinctual caregiving behaviors, but parents can reclaim them through responsive touch and connection.
  • Infant massage promotes biobehavioral synchrony, enhancing communication, attachment, and brain development for both baby and caregiver.
  • Follow your baby’s cues, allowing touch to be a collaborative experience, fostering safety, predictability, and trust.
  • Suzanne shares a heartwarming story that highlights the power of acknowledgment, as a mother realizes her baby’s deep love for her through simple interactions.
  • Infant massage is accessible to all families, regardless of background or baby’s developmental stage, and can be adapted for sensitive infants.
  • Nurturing touch extends beyond infancy, shaping lifelong relationships and even providing comfort at the end of life.
  • Watch Suzanne’s demonstration on how to approach infant massage, emphasizing eye contact, permission, and gentle strokes, starting with the legs and feet.

Suzanne is an IAIM/IMUSA Educator & Senior Trainer. Suzanne trains and certifies individuals as parent educators of infant massage as a vehicle for healthy parent-infant bonding and healthy infant growth & development.


Suzanne holds a B.A. in Child Development from California State University, Northridge. She worked in family and child service agencies for ten years before becoming an infant massage educator and then a trainer. Suzanne retired as a holistic health practitioner and yoga teacher to focus on infant massage. Suzanne has taught infant massage for 20+ years. Her acclaimed work has been featured worldwide at conferences, universities, in print (People magazine), online, and in radio and local news stations. She is an author, a singer/songwriter, and a humanitarian – all things infant massage.

Suzanne’s comprehensive knowledge base, her passion for this work, her integrative approach, the integrity of her commitment to her students, and her energetic presentation is what make her courses educational, inspiring, and fun. She is confident that, together, we can facilitate cultural paradigm shifts around how infants and young children are received, seen, heard, and held in the hands and hearts of their parents and primary caregivers.

Suzanne was born, raised, schooled, and started her own family in Southern California. She currently lives with her family in East Texas, USA.

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