Pregnancy Massage involves using massage techniques throughout the pregnancy to help in alleviating the discomfort associated with pregnancy as well as making the labour process smoother.

Massage throughout pregnancy and labor has been shown to provide a wide range of benefits to both mother and baby. Some of these well reported results include:

• Decreased depression and anxiety
• Decreased back and leg pain
• Balancing of maturnal cortisol levels
• Calming of excessive fetal activity and prematurity

For women receiving massage shortly before and during labor, both in studies and in our experience in clinic, women experience significantly less pain, have shorter labors and need less medication.