Positive health care habits prior to pregnancy can greatly improve a woman's experience of pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Good exercise, nutrition, sensory awareness, and stress reduction benefit a woman tremendously as she is better equipped to adjust to the many changes and challenges before her, a changing body, and a changing self. Massage during pregnancy has many venefits, but one of the most important, I believe, is touch, the nurturance of oneself during one of the most transformative events of one's life.
Birth is Spring's joyous experession of new life, a promise of re-birth.
All around us there are flowers blooming and buds opening on trees. In the animal world it is also a time of renewal. Human beings, too, often give birth in the Spring. If you know someone who is pregnant, trying to conceive, or just recently gave birth, please share these benefits of massage during the childbearing year with her. Facilitates the physiological process of gestation, by supporting the work of the heart, increasing cellular respiration, reducing edema, and contributing to sympathetic nervous system sedation.