It is not just enough to know the exercises and procedures surrounding baby yoga, but important to recognise the benefits teaching such practices have on babies, children and their parents.  It is important to understand how baby yoga can build on a parent child relationship and strengthen the bond.  Not only do babies and parents get the benefit of the stretches and breathing techniques but they are also getting to build on the physiological and emotional aspect which baby yoga brings.

Knowing now how baby massage techniques are linked and how they complement baby yoga is of importance also.  Using techniques such as infant massage can introduce a baby to stimulation and is a good introduction to baby yoga.  Massage has been described as a language which parent and baby communicate through touch and then baby yoga builds on this.  Touch is a babies most developed sense at birth so communication can be made through this from parent to baby.  The techniques used in baby massage are also a good way to relax and open up babies muscles ready for yoga.

Throughout the assignment it has been identified just how many benefits not just physically but emotional and developmentally baby yoga has on an infant.  Stretches for baby that use the legs are all good for digestion and many parents struggle with issues around this with young babies especially constipation and colic.  Baby yoga promotes better and longer sleeping patterns for babies this helps parents when trying to get them into a good routine.  Links to baby yoga and child development can clearly be seen throughout also.  The biggest influence on a child being its environment and parents, and doing such sessions as baby yoga gives parents the chance to have this influence on the infant.  Developmentally the infant will benefit from the stretches also.

Parents and carers also reap the benefits of baby yoga giving them a chance to have one on one time with their infants as such time is not always spent because of other factors.  Women who are suffering with postnatal depression it can help with that, as explained in the essay the soothing strokes of a parent/carer hands stimulate the production of the feel-good hormone oxytocin in parent/carer and baby. Oxytocin is the hormone that is best described as giving parents that warm, loving feeling when they hold their baby close or breastfeed.

The Exercise has given me a fountain of knowledge about the back ground of baby yoga, how it is still used today in many cultures.  Emphasis being on the whole range of benefits to the infant and to the carer.