Study aim: Determining the effect of Vaimala and Field massage of premature infants by mothers on self-esteem, maternal competence and perceived social support in primiparous mothers Design: A clinical trial with one control group and two intervention groups on 90 patients, using a block randomization method. Settings and conduct: 90 mothers of premature infants hospitalized in Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol will be included in the study. Mothers will be selected from the available samples and randomly divided into three groups (each group of 30): A) Control group without massage B) Field massage group C) Waimala massage group. After teaching the massage techniques to the mothers, in the intervention groups each mother will massage her infant with odorless olive oil for 5 consecutive days and daily, and for 15 minutes each day in three sessions. Then, information will be collected through questionnaires of self-esteem , maternal competence and perceived social support on the first and fifth days of the intervention Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria for mothers and infants: Mothers not employed in healthcare and medical environments, mother not addicted, mothers literate, singleton pregnancy No experience in participating in massage classes, mothers not suffering from mental illness Intrauterine age 36-28 weeks, no congenital anomalies or severe respiratory disease, no skin infections or rashes, no coagulation problems Exclusion criteria include mother's unwillingness to continue participating in the study, early discharge of the infant or death of the infant, and no massage for two consecutive days Intervention groups: Control group without massage, field massage intervention group, and Waimala massage intervention group Main outcome variables: maternal self-esteem, maternal competence, and perceived social support