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Prenatal Massage
November 23, 2007
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Pregnancy can be hard for anybody to handle. Andrea Hertz knows that first hand.
She recently gave birth to her second child and says her body was strained and stressed
during both of her pregnancies.
“Once you start to get bigger all of the weight starts pulling on you in the front
and your hips start to hurt.” Andrea decided to turn to her massage therapist for
some relief. She says, “I had been going for massages, it was just a treat every
couple of months to go and when I got pregnant it was hey can I still get massages
and it was like sure come on in.”
The therapists at the Cape Coral Wellness Center massage hundreds
of expecting moms
each year. Kristin Peterson is a licensed massage therapist with Heart and Soul
Massage. She massages clients at the Cape Coral Wellness center. Kristen says, “I
get a lot of painful lower backs, lots
of tension. There’s not a lot a woman can
do for herself once she’s beyond a certain time so massage frees that up.”
Andrea agrees. “I had a lot of swelling so that would help with the swelling the
massaging the legs and feet. The massage really helped me relax because you get
real, your flexibility becomes real limited especially when you want to try to move
or turn on your side it’s really hard, so when
they get you nice and loose it’s
nice.”
Pre-natal massage can also help a mommy be more aware of her constantly changing
body. Kristin says, “It bonds the mother with her baby more. She gets familiar with
where she’s carrying tension or stress.” Andrea says she experienced that first
hand. “
If he or she started to kick and I’d say come feel, come feel and that was
because I’m relaxed, I’m aware of the motions of the baby moving so it’s like oh
yeah it’s still in there and what a wonderful feeling that is.”
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