22/01/2023
Post-dates treatments aim to encourage the natural onset of labour and avoid the need for medical induction by helping you to feel relaxed, and calm and encouraging the release of endorphins and the love hormone oxytocin, whilst reducing the stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin.
Rise Therapies use a combination of techniques including acupressure, reflexology, structural reflex zone therapy, aromatherapy, and massage. The techniques used in these treatments are safe for you and your baby and aim to initiate or enhance contractions, promote cervical dilatation, and aid the descent of the fetus into the pelvis. The advantages are if labour does not commence, midwives report a more favourable cervix and an increased chance of experiencing minimal intervention.
Attending an appointment with your birth partner, we can teach you how to stimulate acupressure points so that you can continue this treatment at home, included in this package is an aromatherapy oil blended with uterotonic oils (nature’s syntocinon) for you to take home and continue treatment.
A due date based on the first day of your last normal period, based on the assumption that the woman has a normal period every 28 days.
The optimal time for this treatment is round 40 weeks, however if you have a medical induction of labour you are trying to avoid booked before 40 weeks and we will offer this service from 37 weeks.
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