"Date:    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:05:05 -0500
From:    Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: gaining weight in the NICU

...There is another evidence-based way to promote infant weight gain. Massage
the baby. There is so much good evidence that massaging premature infants
once a shift makes them gain more weight.
"

Nikki -- do you suppose infant massage mimics the physical experience 
of a fetus in utero?  Or is all that water just too absorbent of 
physical shock?  How moosheled about does a fetus get?  Perhaps their 
own movement within confined space is what's being mimicked if 
external shock is too buffered by amniotic fluid?  That is, does a 
fetus in utero "massage itself" when it kicks?  (Physical therapists 
utilize water-jet baths for healing after all...).

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