If you are like many moms-to-be, you are excited and exhausted simultaneously. As your pregnancy progresses you are experiencing many physical and emotional changes. Caring for yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually is of utmost importance.

Massage therapy honors, soothes, and invigorates your body before and after your baby is born. Benefits of Massage include:

• physical and emotional relaxation, reducing the fatigue that is so common in pregnancy
  
  
• greater circulation, improving your baby's oxygen supply and helping prevent varicose veins and swelling
  
  
• relief from muscle pain and joint stiffness, enabling you to begin labor with less tension in your back, pelvis, and legs
  
  
• greater acceptance of the beauty, healthiness, and power of pregnancy, boosting your confidence in your body
  
  
• faster recovery of energy and muscle tone                           

I care about your well-being...

While for most pregnancies, massage is a valuable, healthy complement to your overall health care program, there are some situations that will require the approval of your health care provider.

Please be sure to talk with your health care provider before making an appointment for massage. Share any concerns or conditions that you or your health care professional discussed with me before your session begins.

The safety and health of you and your baby is my primary concern. I will work diligently with your health care provider to ensure that all precautions are made to help facilitate your healthy, happy pregnancy and birth.

I look forward to sharing your pregnancy experience. Contact me today about scheduling an appointment for yourself or that special mom-to-be in your life.

WebMD: "The A-h-h-h in Massage"
Prenatal massage not only can improve relaxation, mobility and overall well-being during pregnancy, but the increased blood circulation and pressure applied through massage may relieve some common discomforts, including backaches, breast soreness, leg cramps, headaches, morning sickness, sciatica, varicose veins and fatigue...

WebMD: "Massaging Away Labor Pain"
Many women don't know that there's a simple practice that may reduce the wear and tear of childbirth.

About: "Oooo, Ahhh - Pregnancy Massage"
Curing what ails you in pregnancy. Robin Elise Weiss, About.com Guide to Pregnancy, points out how massage benefits the expectant mother .