Why should you schedule a Prenatal body balance session with your massage or as a stand alone session? While a prenatal massage session can reduce overall pain and discomfort in the body and help with sleep. A prenatal body balance session takes it a step further. It’s bodywork specific to the pelvis, abdomen, low back, uterine ligaments, and all around the pelvis. This work allows the body to relax and release muscles on a deeper level to balance the pelvis and remove restrictions that might cause pain or discomfort during pregnancy or labor. By balancing and releasing restrictions around the pelvis and uterus it allows baby more options to find the best position for labor and birth. These techniques become even more needed when dealing with breech, transverse, or posterior babies. Body balance sessions are also part of my doula prenatal visits and my be used during labor to facilitate comfort and baby rotation. Here is a list of things Prenatal body balancing sessions combined with moms own Spinning Babies® exercises and movements may do.
- Allow baby to achieve or maintain an ideal position
- Release tension in muscles
- Shift the space available
- Walk easier
- Decrease need for some medical interventions
- Helpful when getting an EVC to turn a breech baby
- Very effective when combined with chiropractic adjustments
- Eases your baby’s efforts to move down easier with contractions
- Decrease pain while letting contractions be more effective
- Seems like your pelvis is larger and baby seems smaller
- Support a spontaneous start –and finish– to labor
- Allows gravity and movement to be more effective
- Align yourself to maintain the function you enhanced with body balancing
- Increase comfort
- Sleep better
- Learn more about my Prenatal Body Balancing sessions here.