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During your postpartum massage (massage after childbirth), our practitioners will use warmed oils, essential oils, moxa and organic wheat packs to nestle you into your sanctuary of relaxation. This is a time dedicated to you to help you feel refreshed and renewed. We highly recommend you book a Mother Roasting massage for 90 minutes of pure restorative bliss.
Yes, no matter what kind of birth you’ve had, a massage with our experienced practitioners is safe and can help reduce the swelling and sore muscles that many women experience after the hard work of birth. You are welcome to continue using the pregnancy support cushion for extra belly and breast support if there is any discomfort laying face-down on the massage table, and supported side-lying is always possible.
Our postpartum massages, particularly our Mother Roasting massage, are typically performed two weeks after birth and beyond. Listen to your body and have this treatment when you feel ready. You can have Mother Roasting massages as a once off, or choose weekly treatments to help you in your recovery and transition to motherhood.
A postpartum massage is designed to help new mothers recover from childbirth’s physical, mental and emotional demands, alongside the adjustment to the new challenge of life with a baby. Our massage therapists are treating new mums regularly and understand your needs at this time. We also provide infant massages to encourage parents and loved ones to develop a stronger bond with their new baby.
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Postpartum massage can help in your recovery from birth and relieve tension and stress in both new parents. In the care of our experienced practitioners massage is safe and advisable whichever form your birth has taken, be it natural vaginal, assisted, induced or caesarean. Massage after childbirth will assist swelling and sore muscles as well as providing emotional space and relief. Many new mums find massage helps ease tension and soreness from using different muscles during breast feeding, carrying and lifting a new baby. Massage also provides you with a small window in which to look after your self, relax, unwind and have some space.
Mother Roasting, a special postpartum massage, is practised in many traditional cultures as part of recovery from birth and to help with the demands of early mothering. Based on Chinese Medicine principles, it involves massaging and warming specific areas of the new mothers body to restore energy and to ensure the digestive, liver and kidney energy systems, and the woman’s spirits are recharged.
This practice takes different forms in various cultures. In Malaysia, a special stone that has been heated in a fire, is wrapped in a cloth and placed on the abdomen. In Thailand, a fire was lit at the mother’s bedside, where she would lie day and night rotating her body every half an hour. In the Hopi Indian culture in Arizona, the mother was rested on top of a heated bed of sand and a sheepskin, and then covered well. In all these cultures, during this time she is nurtured, massaged, fed nourishing foods and supported in her recuperation from birth by family helping to care both for her and her newborn.
Mother roasting postpartum massage is performed two weeks after the birth of your new baby, or whenever you feel you can leave your postpartum bubble. Our nurturing practitioners use moxa, hot organic wheat packs and warm towels, warmed oils and warming essential oils to help nourish your Qi and Blood. You will leave feeling renewed, rested, nurtured and balanced – body, mind and spirit!
Book your mother roasting postpartum massage treatment or buy a gift voucher for someone special
Bonding with your baby means forming a unique and close relationship between you and your baby. Eye and skin contact, smell, smiles and soothing vocal sounds, each play a part in the bonding process and are the essential elements of Infant Massage.
Through observing and responding to your baby’s smiles, frowns, coos and kicks with nurturing touch, you reinforce feelings of trust and respect. These feelings provide the foundation of your relationship for years to come.
If you are a working parent, massage can compensate for separation by providing a special relaxing time for you and your baby.
For fathers, the nurturing environment and close interaction of massage offers you a special opportunity to develop a deeper bond, parental confidence and handing skills.
In situations where delayed bonding may occur (premature birth, caesarean delivery, medical complications, adoption, post-natal depression) Infant Massage provides the healing environment where you and your baby can re-establish your close relationship.
At Fertile Ground Health Group, our experienced Baby Massage Instructors will help you develop massage skills to soothe and nurture your baby and help you gain deeper understanding of your baby’s unique signals and needs. Instruction is available within the clinic or in the convenience of your own home. Group sessions also available.
In need of a massage but finding it inconvenient to come into our practice? Fertile Ground offers home visits as well as hospital visits for all postpartum massage services during the first 6 weeks after giving birth.
To book a home or hospital visit please contact reception on (03) 9419 9988 or email reception@fertileground.com.au. Subject to suburb availability and occasionally travel fees will apply.
At Fertile Ground we love caring for you throughout your fertility and pregnancy journey, but when the baby comes the care does not end there! We offer a range of approaches to help support parents and carers as they navigate the often challenging first months (the fourth trimester) with a new babe.
