Meanwhile, as some of you may have heard, ongoing "issues" with certain current officials at the NY State Department of Education most sadly prevent anyone from offering infant "massage" (a licensed word) learning to "unlicensed" parents... for use with their own babies!
Long story short, my certifying organization (Infant Massage USA, the American arm of the International Association of Infant Massage) and a host of other professional organizations remain at an impasse in working towards resolution of this heartbreaking ridiculousness, a situation that makes it impossible for practitioners of any kind to legally support parents in nurturing their own babies through touch (only in NY). Sigh.
I will spare you the details (though I do hope to share advocacy calls soon as we have the go-ahead to help win the fight), but just wanted to explain why my Westchester-based Lucky Duck Infant Massage has needed to lay low.
While I wish I could just tap webbed feet together three times and make it all right, this is not yet to be so please join me in hoping for rapid resolution... and in spreading the word that infant massage learning remains alive and well everywhere else on the planet (including CT)!
