What Is Pregnancy Massage?

Therapeutic massage has been used for centuries to improve overall health, reduce stress, and relieve muscle tension. Massages during pregnancy have often received ambivalent responses from the health community regarding their safety and purpose. Modern investigation and research has shown that prenatal massage therapy can be an instrumental ingredient in women’s prenatal care. 

Possible Benefits of Pregnancy Massage

Only a handful of small studies have focused on massage in pregnancy. No definite benefits have been established. 

Suggests that massage therapy might have multiple positive effects, including:

• Lowered anxiety
• Decreased back and leg pain
• Improved sleep
• Decreased levels of the stress 

In a astudy of pregnancy massage in depressed women, researchers found:

• Increased levels of the "feel-good" hormones serotonin and dopamine
• Decreased levels of cortisol, an indicator of stress
• An overall improvement in mood

At Ivy massage we take grate care to get the mother constable and supported with pillows so she can relax and feel the stress and mussels soreness lifting of her body if the mother in calm and relaxed then there is likes stress on the baby.

Give as a call and book in a relaxing prenatal massage.

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