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Prenatal & Postnatal Massage: Holistic Bodywork for Every Stage of Motherhood 
With Amy

🌿 What to Expect in a Session with Amy

Every session with Amy is more than just a massage — it’s a holistic experience designed to support your body, mind, and journey through motherhood.

1. A Thoughtful, Whole-Body Assessment

As a practitioner trained in the Body Ready Method™ by Lindsay McCoy, Amy begins with a thorough, hands-on assessment of your body’s alignment, breath patterns, core and pelvic balance, and daily movement habits. This ensures each session is tailored to your unique needs — whether you’re experiencing SI joint discomfort, breech presentation concerns, or general tension.

2. Nurturing, Customized Bodywork

You’ll receive deeply therapeutic massage on Amy’s Earthlite Pregnancy Cushion — beloved by mothers and approved by chiropractors, OB/GYNs, midwives, and other professionals. This specialized cushion allows you to safely and comfortably rest face-down (a rare and soothing gift in pregnancy) or side-lying as needed. Each technique Amy uses is gentle yet effective, focusing on areas like the hips, back, shoulders, and pelvis to relieve pain, create space for baby, and encourage relaxation.

3. Practical Support Beyond the Table

Drawing from her background as a former labor & delivery nurse and prenatal yoga teacher, Amy completes each session by offering you personalized stretches, movement practices, breathwork, and lifestyle adjustments. These tools help you stay comfortable and balanced between sessions, supporting optimal fetal positioning, easing daily aches, and empowering you to feel more connected to your body.

Every session is held with compassion, clinical insight, and a deep respect for the sacred transition you’re walking through — so you leave feeling not only lighter in body, but deeply supported in heart and mind.

Prenatal Massage Benefits

Introduction

  • Warm welcome: Amy’s philosophy — bodywork as sacred support for mother and baby.

  • Short intro on Amy’s credentials: LMT, former L&D nurse, prenatal yoga teacher, doula.

  • Holistic, integrative, evidence-informed approach.

  • Invitation to explore the deeper layers of care: beyond relaxation, toward transformation.

🤰 Prenatal Massage: Nurturing Body & Baby

1. More Than Relaxation: A Therapeutic, Whole-Body Approach

  • Massage designed to support mother and baby’s physiological, structural, and emotional needs.

  • Honoring pregnancy as a sacred window, not just a condition to “treat.”

2. Relief & Balance

a. Common pains addressed:

  • SI joint pain & pelvic girdle pain

  • Back and neck tension

  • Round ligament pain

  • Carpal tunnel & nerve pain

  • Swelling and leg fatigue

b. Techniques & goals:

  • Gentle fascial and muscular balancing

  • Improving circulation & lymphatic flow

  • Supporting pelvic floor & breath

3. Breech & Optimal Fetal Positioning

  • How massage supports space and balance in the pelvis & uterus

  • Explanation of how it can complement chiropractic care, Spinning Babies® concepts, and body balancing

4. Labor Preparation & Support

  • Soothing the nervous system to support hormonal readiness for birth

  • Gentle techniques that may encourage labor in overdue pregnancies (with provider approval)

  • Emotional preparation and grounding

5. Whole-Body & Whole-Baby Benefits

  • Better sleep, decreased anxiety

  • Improved pelvic floor tone & awareness

  • Hormone regulation

  • Emotional connection with baby

  • Preparing the body and mind for birth

[Future blog post links]:

  • Breech release & massage

  • How massage supports labor onset

  • Best positions for prenatal massage

Postnatal Massage Benefits

🤱 Postnatal Massage: Restoring, Healing & Reconnecting

1. A Vital Part of Postpartum Recovery

  • Why the postpartum window is equally (or more) deserving of bodywork

  • Amy’s holistic view: caring for tissues, hormones, heart & mind

2. Pain Relief & Structural Support

  • SI joint & pelvic pain

  • Neck and shoulder tension from feeding / carrying

  • Carpal tunnel & wrist pain

  • Lower back pain from lifting, feeding, babywearing

  • Support for diastasis recti recovery

3. Cesarean Section Support & Scar Healing

  • Gentle scar tissue mobilization to prevent adhesions and discomfort

  • Restoring mobility and sensation in the lower abdomen

  • Supporting emotional healing from surgical birth

  • Safe, gradual approach guided by your healing timeline

4. Womb Massage & Abdominal Healing

  • Gentle massage to reconnect to the womb and abdomen after birth

  • Encourages circulation, lymphatic flow, and organ realignment

  • Supports uterine involution and healing

  • Deeply grounding and nourishing for the nervous system and spirit

5. Belly Binding & Core Support

  • Traditional postpartum practice to support abdominal muscles and pelvic floor

  • Encourages gentle compression for diastasis recti and core stability

  • Provides warmth and containment during emotional and physical recovery

  • Taught in personalized sessions so mothers can continue at home safely

6. Nervous System & Emotional Recovery

  • Promoting parasympathetic healing

  • Supporting mood, reducing postpartum anxiety & depression

  • Feeling held, seen, and mothered through touch

7. Breastfeeding & Circulation

  • Chest and shoulder opening

  • Lymphatic drainage for engorgement & swelling

8. Reintegration & Reconnection

  • Gentle pelvic work for pelvic floor awareness and healing

  • Supporting a gradual return to movement and daily life

  • Honoring the profound transition into motherhood

[Future blog post links]:

  • Belly binding for postpartum recovery

  • C-section scar massage: why & how

  • Womb massage & reconnecting after birth

  • Emotional benefits of postpartum bodywork