Promote Childbirth
To Promote Delivery, Why Not To Have The Prenatal Massage and Acupuncture Especially Close To Your Estimated Delivery Date (EDD)?
We suggest mothers begin their massage sessions after 28 weeks of pregnancy and the latest by 2 weeks before your estimated delivery date (EDD), because pregnancy after this period is more stable than in the first trimester.
However, if you would like to get your prenatal massage between week 16 to 27 of pregnancy, please consult and get the go-ahead from your gynaecologist first.
Having the Prenatal Massages that will help to promote delivery, especially if you feel stressed and irritated easily, anxiety, heavy legs, sore back and lower back pain.
A full-term pregnancy is one that is 39-40 weeks long. If you are still pregnant at 41-42 weeks (late-term), your health care provider will usually recommend an induction of labor.
To promote delivery, the prenatal massage is one of the best things you should do for yourselves when it is close to the due date especially if you HAVE NOT HAD (or NOT MANY) prenatal massages during the period of your pregnancy.
Most pregnant women notice swelling in their extremities (typically the feet) due to the combination of the extra blood volume, gravity, and the weight of the baby impeding blood flow from the legs back to the heart. This obstruction in circulation can lead to *tired and heavy legs, calf cramps (due in part to a build-up of metabolic waste products in the stagnant lower legs), swelling of the feet, and varicose veins. Massage helps to move the blood and excess lymphatic fluid out of the extremities so that it can be recirculated.
Western physiological effects of PRENATAL Massage that helps:
1) Reduce swelling and promote better circulation
2) Reduce neck & shoulder tension and soreness
3) Relieve back and lower back pain
4) Improve sleep, benefit recovery from muscles fatigue and reserve better energy
5) Ease compressed muscles & joints, reduce stiffness and increase better range of motion to prepare your body for pushing during childbirth
6) Prepare your body for labor and birth
7) Increased hormone production is a common benefit gained through massage. Endorphins, serotonin and dopamine are positive hormones that circulate around the body. They can give a person a sense of well-being and reduce anxiety. These chemicals also are linked to boosting your immune system!
8) A good massage help to relax you physically and mentally. You feel happier when your stress is relaxed.
9) Prenatal massage can improve labor outcomes. It may also benefit the fetus positioning when you do a regular massage as a maintenance program through the full-term of pregnancy.
10) “Oxytocin is known to help improve labor contractions as well as influence your bonding with your baby,”
In TCM Physiological effects of PRENATAL Massage and ACUPUNCTURE that helps:
1) Move qi to resolve stagnations that helps to reduce soreness and pain
2) Stress reduction helps to soothe hyperactive liver and gallbladder and benefits for digestion.
3) Promote better qi to move fluids to reduce water retention and resolve heaviness.
4) Promote better qi & blood circulation through channels/meridians to promote labor
5) Promote hormones to ease pain, give a sense of well-being and reduce stress & anxiety.
6) Acupuncture and gentle massage on certain acupoints (like LI4, SP6, BL60, ST36) will help to promote labor
7) Moxibustion a special acupoint (BL67) benefits breech baby turning and positioning for easier delivery