[Benefits of the Infant Massage Noticed by Mothers In a Primary Care Centre]

The main objective of the study was to confirm the infant massage benefits noticed by mothers. As for secondary objectives, the aim was to establish the sociodemographic characteristics of the mothers who practice the infant massage at home and the main type of feeding.

Longitudinal descriptive study which included the mothers who came to the infant massage workshop in a Primary Care Centre in León, with a sample composed of 49 mothers. Data were4 collected from February 2014 to February 2015. A questionnaire designed for this study was given, which contained: sociodemographic characteristics (mothers' age, studies and ethnic group), benefits of the infant massage, if they did it at home and if the couple came to the workshop. For the statistical analysis, the software manager SPSS.13. was used.

The main noticed benefits were increasing mother-child bond and relaxation, with a 95.9% of positive answer, followed by the increasing of the sleep quality, in a 65.3%. Less crying and decreasing of the colic had a 63.3%. Most of the mothers, 93.3%, did the massage at home. The main type of feeding was breast-feeding, 53.1%.

Mother noticed the benefits of the infant massage and they do it at home.