Benefits of Prenatal and Postpartum Massage
- Promotes blood and lymph circulation
- Reduces edema
- Reduces blood pressure
- Reduces varicose vein development and pain
- Helps maintain efficient breathing patterns
- Reduces musculoskeletal pain and postural imbalances
- Reduces morning sickness
- Helps mother prepare for labor
- Can facilitate the laboring process, making it shorter and less painful
- Postpartum, speeds up physiological recovery
- Reduces stress and emotional swings
- Helps cope with emotional and physiological changes in the body
- Stimulates appropriate mothering behaviors
- Helps balance physical and emotional challenges of motherhood
- Reduces postpartum depression
