Hi, I’m Tammy McLellan, I have been teaching baby massage for 30 years to both parents and health care professionals!

Over the years, I have taught classes and courses from the local community centres to maternity hospitals.

Following my passion, I have been fortunate to have seen many of the benefits of baby massage first hand, through both my teaching experience and that of being a parent myself.

I trained in massage in 1989 and when my daughter was born, I felt like the most natural thing to do was to massage her. At this time, in the UK, not many people massaged their baby. I felt surprised by this then realised after speaking to other parents that it hadn’t even occurred to most to try it and others just lacked the confidence. Intrigued by this, I began to do more research into baby massage. I soon learnt that, as well as many other benefits, premature babies whom were massaged and rocked for 3 x15 minute periods a day, after 10 days had on average a 47% greater weight gain 1 . Empowered by my new knowledge, I decided to speak to my local maternity unit about the profound benefits of baby massage. I then began to work with midwives, parents and babies and the response from the parents and babies was wonderful.

To my delight, a national paper even picked up on the success and published an article on the benefits of baby massage. As a result, health professionals began calling me to ask if I would teach them how to teach parents. And so I started the Scottish School of Child and Baby Massage. 30 years on, I continue to teach baby massage and feel so privileged to pass on my knowledge to parents.