Pregnancy, Labor, Postpartum Bodywork

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Comment by leslie stager on August 30, 2009 at 8:02am

I'm in Massachusetts waiting for a baby due any day. First time mom, who is a carpenter who built her own house, and who is tiling and completing her new bathroom shower this weekend––lifting, climbing ladders, and working hard with her huge belly. We've been doing daily massage, that has been helping her relax, receive and take time for herself in a way that she does not often allow herself. For some women, the most vital benefits of massage during pregnancy are in this realm,--helping her take time to nurture herself, or to receive nurturing...which can transfer on to nurturing of the baby as well.
(Of course the relief of muscular strain and tension with massage is also much needed and appreciated!)

Comment by leslie stager on July 21, 2009 at 4:00pm

If anyone is in Maine in August, I will be doing a screening of my film, MotherTouch: Nurturing Touch for Birth, and having a discussion about touch and the perinatal cycle. It will be at the DownEast School of Massage in Waldoboro, the first week of August. Contact them for details.

Comment by leslie stager on July 12, 2009 at 2:36pm

I do work with stones in the postpartum period mostly.. Not specifically La Stone. I have not studied that. But use stones on acu-points, belly work, acu=meridians, to help with PP recovery.
have not used during pregnancy so much.

Comment by leslie stager on July 11, 2009 at 9:14pm

I'm waiting for a baby due September/late August with a woman in her 30's. It is a highly complex situation emotionally/psychologically, with history of incest, a midwife that she is not entirely confident about, and recent traumatic deaths in her family, all of which of course is coming up during this pregnancy. I have known her since she was 10 years old, so an integral guide in her life, with an understanding of many ways her history has affected her life. I am working with her to explore how she can feel safe in this experience and come to terms with all the changes. She can no longer do carpentry (her primary income) at this point in the pregnancy, so is having to surrender now, to her changing role, to allowing others to help her, to watching her body grow. Touch is a way that she determines her safety with someone... if she can relax with their touch, she can let go of control in some ways. We will be doing a lot of preparatory touch sessions when I get there, several weeks before the birth. (hopefully!)

Comment by Exie Buehler on July 11, 2009 at 8:58pm

I've been working with pregnant women since I was in school and have been a certified massage doula since 07, my first birth was in '05. Love the fact that there are others in the profession that love to work with women during this special time!

Comment by leslie stager on July 11, 2009 at 6:23am

HI Nickie
Thanks for joining! Yes, there is online support with the book, including video clips from my video Mastering Pregnancy Massage that correlate with the text. There is also class outlines, and resources online. The book is very focused and streamlined specifically for massage students. My students also find that the DVD-- 3 hours of info--- is a great review for them. I teach a 60-hour certification program in Oregon twice a year, and many of my students get that. I was living up til this year in Idyllwild, above Palm Springs.. isn't that where the desert institute is?!

Comment by Nickie Scott on July 10, 2009 at 5:47pm

Hello Leslie, thanks for starting this group. When I went to massage school at Desert Institute of the Healing Arts I ended up taking the prenatal massage course twice because I liked doing it so much. It is one of the few modalities that gives back more then we put in. I own a small massage school in Ojai, CA now and teach three pregnancy massage workshops here a year. The workshop is thirty hours long and I feel that it is only scratching the surface. I have used Carole Osborne-Sheets excellent book as a required text and recently I have started to require Elaine Stillermans Prenatal Massage book and require the students to take the online tests that are supported by the publisher for this text. I can now see that I need to get your book and video and review it as an added resource. I see that LLW publishes your book. Do they offer online support material for this text too?

Comment by leslie stager on July 9, 2009 at 5:35pm

HI... I thought it would be great to have a forum for issues related to bodywork and the perinatal cycle, since that is my specialty. I am author of Nurturing Massage for Pregnancy, a new textbook focused on specifics of touch during the perinatal cycle. Also the instructor on the DVD: Mastering Pregnancy Massage, and producer of a new film.... MotherTouch: Nurturing Touch for Birth, and a second one, Touch Techniques for Birth.. which should be out this fall!
So many more resources are coming out to address this special client population. I"ll be interested to hear what kinds of concerns or questions or situations people are encountering.

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