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Massage & Somatic Therapies
Prenatal
Pregnancy is a time during which a woman's body goes through rapid change as it grows a baby, preparing for childbirth and the new life of both baby and mother. The experience is usually filled with a combination of joy, transformation, overwhelm, ease, occasional discomfort, unfamiliar feelings, and much more.
Prenatal sessions can:
- bring comfort and adaptability, where pain and discomfort previously existed
- support each woman in remembering her body's own intelligence for healing itself, which translates into its own intelligence for giving birth
- support a woman in gaining more understanding of her own body and how to work with it, thus creating an easier birth
- give a woman time to feel various thoughts and reactions she is having to the rapid changes taking place within her
- allow space for discovering the coping patterns unique to a woman's own body and system as well as the discovery of the resources available for moving through these patterns
Jessica's experience shows that women who receive weekly massage and bodywork beginning at 36 weeks tend to have less complicated births and go into labor in a more timely fashion.
Labor
During early labor women are usually filled with a broad spectrum of emotions from excitement and joy to fear and confusion. Early labor is an extremely important time for resting, relaxing and establishing where you find comforts in labor.
In labor sessions can:
- help you relax
- soothe the discomforts and tensions of early labor
- help you get rest that is extremely important before the energy needs of active labor
- guide you in this transition from pregnancy to motherhood
- support you in finding positions of comfort
Jessica highly recommends all women have a postnatal massage in the first week after she gives birth in the comfort of her home.
Postnatal
Most experiences of birth whether natural, medicated or cesareans, leave the new mom tired and sore. Her body worked hard, is making huge changes and is probably not getting much rest. If the new mother is breastfeeding she is figuring out a bunch of new things and probably not yet settling into nursing as easily and comfortably as she soon will. New moms tend to have sore necks and upper backs and feel generally tired and in need of care.
During Jessica's unique postnatal massages she comes to your home and allows plenty of time to schedule the session around the new mother and new baby's needs. Setting up her table while the new mom nurses her baby right up until she settles into the table for her session. This allows a full session for mom without leaving the baby for long.
Postnatal sessions can:
- support the body's re-acclimation
- give the new mom time to experience the changes and adapt to them
- support the integration of her childbirth experience
- help her adjust to various patterns that may arise when nursing, carrying and caring for an infant
- help remedy any discomfort she is experiencing
Jessica highly recommends all women have a postnatal massage in the first week after she gives birth in the comfort of her home.