Being massaged makes babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility and helps them straighten tightly flexed hands and legs. And who better to teach parents how to acquire these essential skills than Peter Walker, the world's best-known baby massage teacher. In this fully revised edition of his best-selling guide of 2000, he demonstrates vital new sequences essential for very young babies, which can be done while a baby is clothed. * Step-by-step photographic guide to essential baby massage techniques * Suitable even for very young infants * Toe-to-top and top-to-toe massage sequences * Mobility exercises to aid sitting, standing and walking * Massage techniques to use with children with special needs * Therapeutic touch sequences for treating minor childhood ailments