MassageWorks! offers a very unique and therapeutically beneficial way of receiving Massage Therapy during your pregnancy.

The bodyCushion Support System provides safe, stable and amazingly comfortable support that allows you to be positioned face down during your massage treatment (through full-term in most cases).

Pregnancy Massage

Congratulations!! you’re expecting -- an exciting but likely very demanding time for you. Did you know that there is a simple way to help to alleviate stress and labour pain and improve your soon-to-be-born baby’s health while also reducing the risk of complications? The centuries-old practice of Massage Therapy can help to provide these benefits and many more to you and your unborn baby.

How massage will benefit you during your pregnancy, labour and birthing

Studies support what more and more women are discovering about Massage Therapy during pregnancy – it has been shown to:

• improve maternal mood
• decrease depression and anxiety
• decrease pain and discomfort
• decrease stress hormones in pregnant women   (including those suffering from depression)
• decrease obstetrical complications, and
• improve neonatal health and development

In addition, the overall benefit of improved mood to maternal and neonatal health has the potential to positively impact the health of individual mothers and children.

There is also evidence that Massage Therapy, through the labour and birthing process, helps to:

• decrease pain in all three stages of labour (latent, active, and transition),

• reduce anxiety in the latent stage
• reduce stress during labour, and
• increase the quality of your experience of childbirth

These immediate effects of Massage Therapy may affect other longer-term effects such as decreased length of labour, shorter hospital stay, less touch sensitivity and fewer instances of postpartum depression. 

Common Concerns about Pregnancy Massage

You and your baby’s well-being comes first. Our Registered Massage Therapists are professionally trained to work with you to develop an effective and safe Massage Therapy treatment plan during your pregnancy that will complement the care you are receiving from your doctor and other healthcare providers. Specially-designed massages, tables, ergonomic cushions and supports are used to ensure your safety and comfort during your Massage Therapy treatment.  Our Massage Therapists are also prepared to address the subtle needs of expectant mothers like yourself, including the potential need for frequent restroom breaks and the use of unscented massage oil so as to not aggravate a sensitive sense of smell. Good communication with your Therapist will result in the most beneficial and rewarding pregnancy-massage therapy for you and your baby.

Massage therapy – a safe and effective way to improve the experience of birth

Acupuncture can also be an important part of your perinatal care,  & can help induce labour when you're ready!