26/04/2024
Pregnancy Massage Therapy ❤️
Benefits are wonderful for Mother and baby 🤩
1. Reduces Stress
One of the health benefits of pregnancy massage is that it helps to reduce stress. It’s quite difficult to be stressed when you’re so chilled out!
Low stress levels are vital for a healthy pregnancy and can only be a good thing for your baby too.
2. Reduces Joint and Muscle Pain
Pregnancy massage can reduce any muscle and joint pain you may be experiencing and can also help add flexibility to muscles too.
As you reach the latter stages of your pregnancy, you’re likely to be a little more sore than at the start. One of the benefits of a pregnancy massage is that it can help to soothe aches and pains and make you feel much more comfortable.
3. Helps You to Sleep Better
It’s not unusual to find sleep a little difficult during pregnancy. Stress, worries, discomfort, and a rather active baby means little sleep.
But pregnancy massage can help you to get the rest you need out of sheer relaxation.
Getting enough sleep isn’t just beneficial for you, it’s also important for your baby’s health and development too.
4. Reduces Swelling
Massage can help to reduce swelling by giving your lymphatic system a boost. That will make you feel more comfortable and help you to move around more easily.
Toxins will also be flushed away with a boost to your lymphatic system, which is another useful benefit.
5. Boosts Blood Circulation
Pregnancy massage can help to get your blood circulation moving which is beneficial for both you and your baby.
Increased circulation means that oxygen and nutrients are moving around more freely and getting to where they need to go.
So, your baby is getting a good amount of what they need for development and you feel healthier too.
6. Reduces Lower Back Pain
Your centre of gravity will move as your baby grows, and that might cause lower back pain and sciatica. A course of pregnancy massage treatments can help to relieve these problems and make you feel more comfortable.
7. Reduces Pregnancy Headaches
Hormones have a habit of causing all manner of upsetting symptoms and headaches can be one of them. Pregnancy massage can help to reduce headache severity and frequency, as long as you’re drinking plenty of water and getting enough sleep too.
8. Helps You to Maintain a Better Posture
With looser muscles and less discomfort in general after your spa treatments, you will find it much easier to maintain a strong and healthy posture.
Posture is important for health and wellbeing and especially as your bump grows and your balance may be affected.
9. Helps With Hormonal Imbalance
Another useful benefit of pregnancy massage is that it can help to keep your hormones on an even keel. It can also promote the release of endorphins, our feel-good hormones.
10. Reduces Nerve Pain
If you struggle with nerve pain during pregnancy, pregnancy massage might be able to relieve the main symptoms for you.
Loose muscles will mean less pressure on the nerves. That means a better night’s sleep for you and a more comfortable experience in general.
11. Reduces Heartburn Symptoms
Massage can help to relax the nervous systems and therefore cuts down on pressure in the stomach. The result is less heartburn, or it might even get rid of it completely if you’re lucky.
12. Reduces Premature Labour Risk
While we can’t say that pregnancy massage is going to stop any risk of premature labour, studies have shown that it can reduce the risk thanks to a reduction in the amount of cortisol released.
Cortisol is the stress hormone. The less stressed you are, the lower your risk of premature labour.
13. Aids Development of Your Baby
We mentioned that increased blood circulation helps oxygen and nutrients to move around your body more freely, therefore reaching your baby.
This helps with their overall health and development. So, by relaxing with a pregnancy massage, you’re improving your baby’s growth too.
14. May Help With Labour and Delivery
Many studies have shown that women who have regular pregnancy massage experience less pain during labour and delivery, and may even cut the time of labour in general.
This is thought to be down to reduced stress levels and less discomfort during pregnancy overall.
15. Improves Immunity
Because blood circulation is boosted during massage, that means your baby’s immune system is likely to be improved.
This also helps to flush out toxins, which is another benefit for you and your baby, and ensures a higher level of overall health and wellbeing for you both.
16. Boosts Your Mood
Massages help you to calm down, relax, and can boost your mood too. This is the same for any type of massage and is no different for a prenatal massage.
The more you can enjoy your pregnancy, the more memorable it will be, and the healthier your baby is likely to be too.
