Pregnancy
Prenatal Massage
Massage
therapy during pregnancy is a wonderful complementary choice for
prenatal care. It is a healthy way to reduce stress and promote
overall wellness. Massage relieves many of the normal discomforts
experienced during pregnancy, such as backaches, stiff neck, leg
cramps, headaches and swelling.
In
addition, massage
reduces stress on weight-bearing joints, encourages blood and lymph
circulation, helps to relax nervous tension-which aids in better
sleep and can help relieve depression or anxiety caused by hormonal
changes. Most women find that they sleep much better after a massage and
are able to move with greater ease and comfort. With over five years of
experience specializing in prenatal massage you'll feel the difference
in Melissa's touch.
Pregnancy Support
Roots
in Wellness will provide you with excellent pregnancy resources. From
childbirth education classes and labor doulas to prenatal yoga classes
and pregnancy/birth photographers you will have everything you need for
this special time in your life.
Birth Doula
A
Doula is a woman, trained an experinced in childbirth, whose sole focus
is the emotional well-being of the other before during and immediately
following the birth of her baby. She is a professional labor assistant
for both the laboring woman and her partner. She provides continuous
comfort measures, emotional support, educational resources and
environmental support during labor and birthing. She works with a couple
to develop and achieve their birth plan. She will nurture and empower
the laboring woman to draw on her own strength. She will also provide
support and encouragement to the labor companion, thus complementing
rather than replacing this critical role. She provides continuity of
care when birth takes place in hospital, attending the laboring mother
first at home, providing reassurance, and easing the transition into the
hospital environment.
A walk along Lake Michigan during early labor
Acupressure to Induce Labor
Acupressure works on the same principle as acupuncture, minus the
needles. There are points all over the body that were identified
thousands of years ago by Chinese physicians to stimulate responses in
the body to certain health conditions. Inducing labor is one of the
things that acupressure can do.
Using acupressure to induce labor is one of these methods that is
natural and drug free. Evidence has shown that stimulating specific
acupressure points brings on labor in 93 per cent of women within 48
hours.
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