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Jackie Stearns Jenkins

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Rewards of Massaging Mom After She's Given Birth

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

    Massaging Mom after she has given birth can be such a wonderfully rewarding experience. On Easter Sunday, I became a great-aunt to the lovely little Miss Ella. Monday of this week (4/13/2009) I was blessed to be able to provide in-hospital massage for her doting mom. Labor had been short and sweet, but, strenuous nonetheless. Mom ached all over and needed to feel relief from the stresses and strains of giving birth. So, off to the hospital I went, massage chair in hand, lotions in my purse to work on the mommy. What a wonderful experience it turned out to be. The nursing staff lauded me for taking time from my practice to travel to the hospital to provide my niece with massage. Using a combination of her hospital bed, my massage chair and the shower seat in the bath room I provided my niece with a full body (clothed) massage. Unfortunately my niece's massage was broken up into bits and pieces because of the visiting family members, but, we managed to get in a full body massage over an hour and a half.  Mommy luxuriated in the sense of having her body not ache and pain every time she moved. I was blessed to hold the darling Miss Ella and rub her tummy and do a bit of craniosacral work with her as well. The tummy rub produced her best bowel movement since birth, according to Daddy and the nurses, and the craniosacral work made her an even more peaceful baby.

    "Well, that's all well and good", I can hear you saying, but, "what does that have to do with any rewards from massaging a birth mother?" Plenty. Mommy can now really begin to relax inside her skin and be mentally and physically able to take on the most daunting task of mothering a newborn baby. She'll be able to begin her life as a Mom with a clearer mind and a more willing body. According to the nursing staff at the hospital, most moms are so over-stressed when they leave the hospital for home that they are really not mentally prepared to begin their new lives with their newborn child. As the one nurse told me, "She's a lucky girl to be getting a massage before she goes home - she'll be ready for what's going to happen to her! Most of the gals aren't because their bodies still hurt and their minds are still stressed out from the work of giving birth and then having to deal with all the visitors." I felt enormously rewarded from having provided such a massage because the changes in my niece's body and face were totally palpable and visible. From feeling harried, "scrunched-up" (her phrase) and sore all over with a face full of stress and exhaustion, Mommy transformed into a young woman with a tired but relaxed body and mind with a face that was relaxed and beaming ready to take on the tasks of motherhood. Daddy even noted that Mommy was looking and sounding much better than she had earlier in the day. Those are rewards that money cannot buy for me, but ones that I am ever so glad to reap from my work as a massage therapist.

    Yes, massaging Mom after she's given birth is very rewarding - for her, and for her therapist as well.

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