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Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage During pregnancy, the wisdom of the woman's body takes over to provide a sanctuary for the growing baby and to prepare the body for childbirth. While this is a wonderful time of a woman's life, pregnancy can also add stress and physical discomfort to daily life. Massage during pregnancy can relieve stress and muscle aches and pains. Massage can also ease constipation, increase flexibility, release fluid retention. With relaxed muscles, increased flexibility, and increase body awareness, massage also helps to prepare the body labor and delivery. Postpartum massage relieves and re-educates the stretched and stressed muscles of pregnancy and those muscle used during labor (there is a reason it is called labor). Massage also helps you deal with the physical stress of caring for a newborn Massage also increases circulation, which helps to remove toxins for medications used during labor and speed the healing of hemorrhoids. It reduces stress and increases energy. Massage can comfort and nurture you in your time of need.
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