Fit Mommy2B Tip #8: Get a Prenatal Massage!

Getting a pregnancy massage is a real opportunity to help practice your capacity to let go as you prepare your body for your birth experience! Massages can be adjusted to accomodate your changing body. It is shown that just receiving 20-minute massages, twice weekly in the last trimester, may significantly improve the mom’s neonatal outcome, especially prematurity, labor pain and labor time.

Prenatal Massage presents a number of benefits for the future mommas:

• Reduces stress
• Relieves back discomfort due to changes in body and posture
• Lower prematurity rates
• Reduce labor pain and labor time
• Lower the risk for depression
• Reduce pelvic discomfort
• Lower the need for medication
• Reduce the swelling of ankles and feet
• Improves sleep

If you'd like to know more about the great benefits of prenatal massage, you can view the entire article submitted by Star Doula Summer Greenlees on our Mommy2B website.