• Ms. Anuradha Melkare
• Dr. (Mrs) Shweta Joshi
• Dr (Mrs) Rupali Salvi
• Dr (Mrs) Nisha Naik

Introduction: Human touch has been shown to be emotionally and physically healing for centuries. Touch is a primal need, and the first important mode of communication between a mother and her new baby. Baby friendly approach suggests that positive touch and massage are important aspects of child care as it promotes health on all levels – physiologically, psychologically, emotionally and developmentally, Design &method: The development of the tool started with a conceptualization phase. followed by design, pilot testing & validation. Experimental pre-test post-test control group design was used this study.sample was used 60 for this study. Result : The Researcher applied two sample t-test for Comparison of change in weight among premature neonates in experimental and control group. In experimental group, the change in weightwas positive after day1 obsevation-2 and consistently increased over time-points, whereas change in weight of control group premature neonates was negative and decreased over time-points. Day 2 observation-3 onwards, p-values for this comparison were small at all the time-points. Conclusion: It is evident that the massage therapy was significantly effective in improving the weight of neonates. This indicates that the feed tolerance among the premature neonates had improved remarkably after massage therapy

- effect , massage ,feed tolerance , neonate,premature

"A study to assess the effect of massage therapy on weight and feed tolerance among premature neonates admitted in selected hospital", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c355-c370, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202263.pdf

"A study to assess the effect of massage therapy on weight and feed tolerance among premature neonates admitted in selected hospital", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppc355-c370, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202263.pdf