Pregnancy massage is a therapy treatment which like other massages can help relieve stress from body’s muscles, remove sore areas including nerves and help with relaxation. The constant strain on the muscles and joints in the body can cause excessive pain and the areas that hurt are normally the areas under the most stress. Prenatal massage can help relieve this strain and our physiotherapists have specific experience in the pressure points that can be massaged to help with morning sickness, reducing anxiety and sleep.

1. It also helps blood circulation and the lymphatic system helping to ensure blood flow is healthy to both mother and baby.
2. The pregnancy massage helps to stabilise hormone secretion which helps calmness and leads to fewer mood swings. Anxiety is also lowered and sleep improved and changes of prenatal depression significantly reduced.
3. For the back, sacroiliac pain and sciatic pain the massage can help reduce tension around the affected nerves and muscles.
4. Hormonal pigmentation on the body can be lightened. stretch marks can be prevented and less fluid retention and cramping in the legs. Toxins can be flushed out from the body and constipation lessened.
5. Regular massage during pregnancy has been showed to help the labour go smoothly.

The mother undergoes a number of physical, physiological and emotional changes during and after pregnancy.

The massage therapists at Health2u are physios and are knowledgeable of these changes and the safe and comfortable positions to put the mother in when carrying out the massage. In pregnancy massage, the massage is softer and more gentle to help protect the developing baby and different methods and techniques are used. There are also certain pressure points that need to be avoided in the massage while the mother is pregnant to ensure the massage is fully safe to mother and child which a qualified pre/postnatal massage physiotherapist under Health2u will be aware of.

Some prefer to avoid massages in the first trimester due to the fragility of the rapidly growing embryo in this stage. As soon as the 2nd trimester starts the massages can be started and postnatal massages can happen any time after birth.

For optimum results, we recommend twice weekly massages in the 2nd trimester and once weekly massages in the 3rd trimester. After birth, the massages can be as often as required to give the benefits you are looking for such as pain relief, general wellbeing and slimming/firming of the stomach.

There are certain points of the body during Pregnancy that pressure should not be applied as can induce early labour.  But if you ensure your massage is carried out by a trained Prenatal Massage Therapist then the massage is very safe.

There are certain pressure points that can be applied that can induce early labour.  Some people choose to include these pressure points if they are full term and wanting to try and bring on an earlier labour.  But until this point these points should be avoided.