The Benefits of Postnatal Massage for New Moms


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Discover the Ultimate Guide to Postnatal Massage for New Moms Are you a new mom navigating the beautiful yet challenging postpartum journey? "The Benefits of Postnatal Massage for New Moms" is your essential companion on this transformative path. In this concise yet comprehensive guide, we unveil the incredible advantages of postnatal massage, helping you embrace motherhood with comfort, confidence, and well-being. Embark on your postpartum healing journey with a warm welcome and an to the many benefits that postnatal massage can offer. Relieves Muscle Tension Bid farewell to postpartum muscle tension as you explore the soothing effects of massage on your body. Promotes Relaxation Learn how postnatal massage can be your sanctuary for relaxation, providing a well-deserved break amidst the demands of motherhood. Improves Sleep Quality Discover the secrets of achieving better sleep quality through the gentle touch of postnatal massage. Enhances Blood Circulation Explore how improved blood circulation can support your body's natural healing processes and leave you feeling rejuvenated. Reduces Postpartum Depression Uncover the emotional benefits of postnatal massage in reducing postpartum depression and promoting a positive outlook. Boosts Milk Production For breastfeeding moms, learn how postnatal massage can be a valuable ally in boosting milk production. Speeds Up Recovery Accelerate your postpartum recovery with the healing powers of massage, addressing both physical and emotional aspects. Alleviates Back Pain Bid farewell to back pain as we delve into how postnatal massage can offer relief and improve your posture. Enhances Body Awareness Nurture a deeper connection with your postpartum body and regain a sense of balance and awareness. Relieves Headaches Explore how postnatal massage can alleviate postpartum headaches, leaving you refreshed and pain-free. Reduces Scar Tissue Learn about techniques that can help reduce and heal scar tissue, especially relevant for C-section moms. Increases Energy Levels Revitalize your energy levels and embark on your motherhood journey with enthusiasm and vitality. Improves Digestion Discover how postnatal massage can support better digestion and overall gastrointestinal health. Relieves Joint Pain Say goodbye to joint discomfort as you explore the relief that postnatal massage can provide. Enhances Bonding Strengthen the special bond between you and your baby through the shared experience of postnatal massage. Promotes Hormonal Balance Learn how postnatal massage can help regulate hormonal production, aiding in postpartum recovery. Reduces Anxiety Explore how the calming effects of massage can alleviate postpartum anxiety and promote emotional well-being. Regulates Hormone Production Discover how postnatal massage can stimulate oxytocin release and enhance your postpartum journey. Improves Postpartum Body Image Embrace self-confidence and a positive body image with the help of postnatal massage. Provides Emotional Support Lean on the emotional support and relaxation that postnatal massage can offer during this transformative phase. Reduces Stress and Anxiety Bid adieu to stress and anxiety as you immerse yourself in the healing world of postnatal massage. Don't miss out on the opportunity to nurture yourself during the postpartum period. Embrace the physical, emotional, and mental benefits of postnatal massage and embark on your motherhood journey with vitality, confidence, and well-being. Your postpartum healing begins here—get your copy today!Table of Contents Introduction The Benefits of Postnatal Massage for New Moms RELIEVES MUSCLE TENSION PROMOTES RELAXATION IMPROVES SLEEP QUALITY ENHANCES BLOOD CIRCULATION REDUCES POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION BOOSTS MILK PRODUCTION SPEEDS UP RECOVERY ALLEVIATES BACK PAIN IMPROVES POSTURE ENHANCES BODY AWARENESS RELIEVES HEADACHES REDUCES SCAR TISSUE INCREASES ENERGY LEVELS IMPROVES DIGESTION RELIEVES JOINT PAIN ENHANCES BONDING PROMOTES HORMONAL BALANCE REDUCES ANXIETY REGULATES HORMONE PRODUCTION STIMULATES OXYTOCIN RELEASE IMPROVES POSTPARTUM BODY IMAGE PROVIDES EMOTIONAL SUPPORT REDUCES STRESS AND ANXIETY




Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy


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"Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy explores techniques of therapeutic massage and bodywork that enable massage therapists to support mothers and their babies throughout the childbearing year. In this updated edition of her widely used and trusted text, noted maternity massage therapist and teacher Carole Osborne details the physiological, functional, and emotional developments of childbearing. The three Technique Manuals included in the text teach clinically refined techniques, conveniently woven around women's common needs." -- Back cover.




Why Postnatal Recovery Matters


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Caring for and truly supporting a mother after the birth should be a societal norm.




Natural Health after Birth


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Provides essential advice for adjusting to the many challenges facing women during the first year after giving birth. • Offers practical tips for finding balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self. • Provides helpful herbal tips and recipes and includes gentle yoga exercises. • Addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. • By the author of The Natural Pregnancy Book and Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide. New mothers need care and support to adjust to the myriad challenges facing them after birth: changing body image, lifestyle, work arrangements, and relationships. Midwife, herbalist, and mother of four, Aviva Jill Romm shares her insights into how to make this crucial time a happy one. She provides essential advice for preparing for the postpartum period, coping during the first few days after the birth, establishing a successful breast-feeding relationship, getting enough rest, eating well even with a hectic schedule, and finding time to regain strength and tone with gentle yoga exercises. Woven throughout are helpful herbal tips and recipes to make the first year of motherhood a naturally healthy one. Natural Health after Birth also addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. This book provides support both for women who plan to be home full or part time during the first year and those who must return to their jobs soon after the birth. With humor and compassion, Romm offers mothers practical wisdom for attaining the delicate balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self.




Birth Settings in America


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The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.




Why Pregnancy and Postnatal Exercise Matter


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Helping mothers-to-be and their supporters understand the safest and most beneficial ways of exercising during and after pregnancy.




The Postnatal Depletion Cure


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While postpartum depression has become a recognizable condition, this is the first book to treat root causes of mommy brain, baby blues, and other symptoms that leave mothers feeling exhausted. Any woman who has read What to Expect When You're Expecting needs a copy of The Postnatal Depletion Cure. Filled with trustworthy advice, protocols for successful recovery, and written by a compassionate expert in women's health, this book is a guide to help any mother restore her energy, replenish her body, and reclaim her sense of self. Most mothers have experienced pain, forgetfulness, indecision, low energy levels, moodiness, or some form of baby brain. And it's no wonder: The process of growing a baby depletes a mother's body in substantial ways--on average, a mother's brain shrinks 5% during pregnancy, and the placenta saps her of essential nutrients that she needs to be healthy and contented. But with postnatal care ending after 6 weeks, most women never learn how to rebuild their strength and care for their bodies after childbirth. As a result, they can suffer from the effects of depletion for many years, without knowing what's wrong as well as getting the support and treatments that they need.




Nurturing Massage for Pregnancy: A Practical Guide to Bodywork for the Perinatal Cycle Enhanced Edition


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urturing Massage for Pregnancy is one of the most comprehensive books available for massage students and licensed massage therapists who treat pregnant, laboring, and postpartum clients. The author is a highly skilled perinatal massage instructor who is also a registered nurse, childbirth educator, and doula.




Cribsheet


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From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting. “Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times “The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer.” —NPR With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule—or three—for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert—and mom of two—who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions—and stay sane in the years before preschool.




The Fifth Trimester


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Packed with honest, funny, and comforting advice—“a book you MUST read if you are returning to work after the birth of a child…. I loved it and you will too.” —New York Times bestselling author Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. The first three trimesters (and the fourth—those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when the working mom is born. A funny, tells-it-like-it-is guide for new mothers coping with the demands of returning to the real world after giving birth, The Fifth Trimester contains advice from 800 moms, including: •The boss-approved way to ask for flextime (and more money!) •How to know if it’s more than “just the baby blues” •How to pump breastmilk on an airplane (or, if you must, in a bathroom) •What military science knows about working through sleep deprivation •Your new sixty-second get-out-of-the-house beauty routine •How to turn your commute into a mini–therapy session •Your daycare tour or nanny interview, totally decoded