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Childbirth is physically and emotionally demanding on a woman’s mind and body. It is essential for a woman to take the time to rest and recover after her labor. She will be transitioning through a time where her uterus is healing, her hormones are shifting, and she is becoming accustomed to her new role as a mother. A postpartum massage is a wonderful way to ease the physical and emotional demands of labor, breastfeeding, and caring for a newborn. A postpartum massage specialist takes extra time to make a woman feel relaxed and comfortable by soothing her tired muscles and addressing her specific needs. When mom feels nurtured, rejuvenated, and revitalized, everyone around her benefits!
What to expect from a postpartum session
During a postpartum massage session we spend extra time to discuss your birth story and to find out how you are healing and adjusting to caring for your newborn. We create a unique postpartum massage session to address your specific needs and offer any community resources that may be needed. Our revitalizing postnatal massage focuses on releasing neck, shoulder, and arms tension. Along with working the muscles of the low back and hips to help the body recover from childbirth. Our deeply relaxing and nurturing postpartum massage melts away muscle tension leaving you feeling more energized, balanced, and confident.
Benefits of Postpartum Massage
• Relieves soreness and muscle tension from labor
• Provides deep relaxation
• Reduces weakness and fatigue
• Helps internal organs to resume proper placement
• Re-establishes pelvis structural integrity
• Helps to restore the uterus to it's original state
• Relieves neck, shoulder, hand, and wrist pain from caring for a newborn
• Eases lower back and pelvic pain
• Supports healthy lactation
• Aids in the reduction of excess body fluids
• Increases blood circulation and stimulates the lymph system
• Reduces stress and anxiety
• Facilitates healing after a Cesarean birth
• Offers a natural way to sooth and nurture mothers as they adjust to shifting hormones and motherhood
• Reduces the occurrence of postpartum depression
• Enhances the attachment and bonding experience between mother and baby
When to receive postpartum massage?
For mothers who delivered vaginally, you are able to receive postpartum massage as soon as you are comfortable after you deliver your baby. Most women receive a postpartum massage within the first week or two after delivery. If your baby was born by cesarean section, craniosacral therapy is a wonderful way to receive nurturing touch in the first two weeks after birth. However, it is best to wait two weeks to receive a regular postpartum massage after a cesarean birth. We recommend that you receive a postpartum massage every 1-3 weeks for the first 12 weeks after delivery to aid in postpartum recovery and leave you with a sense of wellbeing.
Postpartum Massage Positioning
You can lie on your belly again! However, some women still may find it difficult to lay face down on the massage table due to the increased size of their breasts. In this case, we provide extra support cushioning under your chest to allow mothers to find lying face down to be a comfortable position to receive a postnatal massage. If that’s not comfortable for you, we can also use a side-lying position with pillows, which is also great for those healing from a cesarean birth.
Your Baby and Breastfeeding During a Massage
We recommend that you breastfeed or pump right before your massage to enhance your comfort and relaxation. We do understand that it can be difficult leave your newborn at home to treat yourself to a rejuvenating postpartum massage. Therefore, we welcome you to bring your newborn to your massage appointment at our office. If your newborn is fussy or would like to nurse while you are on the massage table, we can continue the massage in a side-lying position, allowing you to nurse or comfort your child. Babies birth to three months of age typically do the best at the office. Once they get a bit older than three months they tend to need more attention and take away from mom's quiet relaxing time.
Abdominal Massage
After delivery a woman’s physical body goes through tremendous changes as it strives to achieve its pre-pregnancy state. The uterus shrinks back down, the digestive organs slide back into place, the bladder resumes proper position, and the pelvic floor heals from any strain from pushing. We use massage and heat treatments to this area designed to increase circulation and to aid in the proper realignment of the organs.
Cesarean Scar Healing
We use cross fiber friction massage and craniosacral therapy to aid in healing of cesarean scar tissue. By softening the adhesion we can create more movement and flexibility between the layers of muscle and surrounding tissue to increasing mobility of the uterus and reduce sensitive to the surrounding tissue. A mother may receive cranial sacral therapy or reiki over the incision within the first month but it is best to wait until the tissue is properly healed, about three months postpartum, before deeper work can be performed.
Other Postpartum Massage Modalities:
We offer a variety of other postpartum massage options in addition to therapeutic postpartum massage. Try them all!
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® for Postpartum Women
Click here to learn about the many benefits of receiving ATMAT after childbirth!
Postpartum Massage and Belly Binding
Bengkung belly binding is the art of wrapping a postpartum women's belly for physical support and to help hasten the recovery process after childbirth. This belly binding technique uses a long strip of cloth to wrap around around the abdomen from the hips to the ribcage. Women are traditionally wrapped as soon after birth as possible, ideally on day five and then worn for 40 days or longer as needed. Learn more about postpartum belly binding services here.
Postpartum Mother Roasting
Mother roasting is the tradition of warming a woman after birth. Women exert a tremendous amount of energy during childbirth, along with blood loss after birth that they need additional support in restoring vitality, warmth, and energy to their body as they recover. We offer postpartum massage sessions that incorporate techniques that help nourish and bring heat into the body. Our 60 or 90 minute luscious postpartum mother roasting massage treatments add the benefits of heat through the use of hot stones. We focus on warming a woman's center and melting tension from the neck, shoulders, and forearms. A Mother Roasting massage session is deeply relaxing and the ultimate act of self care after steadfast focus on and care of a newborn.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) for Postpartum
After your baby has arrived much of your time and energy is focused on caring for your infant but it is just as important to honor your body as you adjust to new discomforts associated with birth, and infant care. Whether you are recovering from pelvic floor tears, cesarean surgery, hemorrhoids, muscular pain, mastitis, insomnia, or postpartum depression CST facilitates healing and helps to restore balance within the body. Learn more about CST by clicking HERE.
We help you care for yourself as you care for others.
What to expect from a postpartum session
During a postpartum massage session we spend extra time to discuss your birth story and to find out how you are healing and adjusting to caring for your newborn. We create a unique postpartum massage session to address your specific needs and offer any community resources that may be needed. Our revitalizing postnatal massage focuses on releasing neck, shoulder, and arms tension. Along with working the muscles of the low back and hips to help the body recover from childbirth. Our deeply relaxing and nurturing postpartum massage melts away muscle tension leaving you feeling more energized, balanced, and confident.
Benefits of Postpartum Massage
• Relieves soreness and muscle tension from labor
• Provides deep relaxation
• Reduces weakness and fatigue
• Helps internal organs to resume proper placement
• Re-establishes pelvis structural integrity
• Helps to restore the uterus to it's original state
• Relieves neck, shoulder, hand, and wrist pain from caring for a newborn
• Eases lower back and pelvic pain
• Supports healthy lactation
• Aids in the reduction of excess body fluids
• Increases blood circulation and stimulates the lymph system
• Reduces stress and anxiety
• Facilitates healing after a Cesarean birth
• Offers a natural way to sooth and nurture mothers as they adjust to shifting hormones and motherhood
• Reduces the occurrence of postpartum depression
• Enhances the attachment and bonding experience between mother and baby
When to receive postpartum massage?
For mothers who delivered vaginally, you are able to receive postpartum massage as soon as you are comfortable after you deliver your baby. Most women receive a postpartum massage within the first week or two after delivery. If your baby was born by cesarean section, craniosacral therapy is a wonderful way to receive nurturing touch in the first two weeks after birth. However, it is best to wait two weeks to receive a regular postpartum massage after a cesarean birth. We recommend that you receive a postpartum massage every 1-3 weeks for the first 12 weeks after delivery to aid in postpartum recovery and leave you with a sense of wellbeing.
Postpartum Massage Positioning
You can lie on your belly again! However, some women still may find it difficult to lay face down on the massage table due to the increased size of their breasts. In this case, we provide extra support cushioning under your chest to allow mothers to find lying face down to be a comfortable position to receive a postnatal massage. If that’s not comfortable for you, we can also use a side-lying position with pillows, which is also great for those healing from a cesarean birth.
Your Baby and Breastfeeding During a Massage
We recommend that you breastfeed or pump right before your massage to enhance your comfort and relaxation. We do understand that it can be difficult leave your newborn at home to treat yourself to a rejuvenating postpartum massage. Therefore, we welcome you to bring your newborn to your massage appointment at our office. If your newborn is fussy or would like to nurse while you are on the massage table, we can continue the massage in a side-lying position, allowing you to nurse or comfort your child. Babies birth to three months of age typically do the best at the office. Once they get a bit older than three months they tend to need more attention and take away from mom's quiet relaxing time.
Abdominal Massage
After delivery a woman’s physical body goes through tremendous changes as it strives to achieve its pre-pregnancy state. The uterus shrinks back down, the digestive organs slide back into place, the bladder resumes proper position, and the pelvic floor heals from any strain from pushing. We use massage and heat treatments to this area designed to increase circulation and to aid in the proper realignment of the organs.
Cesarean Scar Healing
We use cross fiber friction massage and craniosacral therapy to aid in healing of cesarean scar tissue. By softening the adhesion we can create more movement and flexibility between the layers of muscle and surrounding tissue to increasing mobility of the uterus and reduce sensitive to the surrounding tissue. A mother may receive cranial sacral therapy or reiki over the incision within the first month but it is best to wait until the tissue is properly healed, about three months postpartum, before deeper work can be performed.
Other Postpartum Massage Modalities:
We offer a variety of other postpartum massage options in addition to therapeutic postpartum massage. Try them all!
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® for Postpartum Women
Click here to learn about the many benefits of receiving ATMAT after childbirth!
Postpartum Massage and Belly Binding
Bengkung belly binding is the art of wrapping a postpartum women's belly for physical support and to help hasten the recovery process after childbirth. This belly binding technique uses a long strip of cloth to wrap around around the abdomen from the hips to the ribcage. Women are traditionally wrapped as soon after birth as possible, ideally on day five and then worn for 40 days or longer as needed. Learn more about postpartum belly binding services here.
Postpartum Mother Roasting
Mother roasting is the tradition of warming a woman after birth. Women exert a tremendous amount of energy during childbirth, along with blood loss after birth that they need additional support in restoring vitality, warmth, and energy to their body as they recover. We offer postpartum massage sessions that incorporate techniques that help nourish and bring heat into the body. Our 60 or 90 minute luscious postpartum mother roasting massage treatments add the benefits of heat through the use of hot stones. We focus on warming a woman's center and melting tension from the neck, shoulders, and forearms. A Mother Roasting massage session is deeply relaxing and the ultimate act of self care after steadfast focus on and care of a newborn.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) for Postpartum
After your baby has arrived much of your time and energy is focused on caring for your infant but it is just as important to honor your body as you adjust to new discomforts associated with birth, and infant care. Whether you are recovering from pelvic floor tears, cesarean surgery, hemorrhoids, muscular pain, mastitis, insomnia, or postpartum depression CST facilitates healing and helps to restore balance within the body. Learn more about CST by clicking HERE.
We help you care for yourself as you care for others.
