PRENATAL MASSAGE

Why Should I Choose Prenatal Massage?

• My body feels out of balance

• My legs are swollen

• I find it hard to sleep

• My low back and hips are sore

• I want to prepare for an optimal birth

Prenatal massage can contribute enormously to the comfort of a woman’s pregnancy as well as her birth and postpartum experiences. In my nurturing treatments for expectant mothers, I customize each session, using both Swedish prenatal massage techniques, which help ease leg cramps, swelling, sciatica, and pain in the hips, back and joints, and Abdominal Therapy pregnancy massage, which supports structural changes in uterine walls and ligaments and helps to align the growing uterus to alleviate discomfort and ease labor, birth and postpartum.

You will also learn a simple self-massage routine that will help you to retain that post-massage comfort level.

Recommended schedule of visits:

Through 19 weeks: 1 visit per month for a 1-hour session – this could just be a regular Swedish massage, with the client positioned lying on her belly, if that feels right.

After 20 weeks: 2 per month for a 1-hour session. Starting at 20 weeks, I use a wedge and pillows to provide optimal position and comfort.

After 36 weeks: Minimum once a week for a 1-hour session.

Abdominal Therapy practitioners around the world have repeatedly found that their clients experience significantly more comfortable pregnancies as well as shorter and easier labors.

Testimonial from a prenatal massage client:

"I also have been doing the Maya belly massage at night and it's been helping with the pulling and stretching I'm feeling in my rectus abdominus. I feel it at my round ligaments and where my rectus attaches at my left rib. The massage soothes it completely so that's been great. Thank you for giving me this tool <3."

— Jasmine S