Prenatal Massage ($80/60 min, $120/90 min, $160/120 min +GST)
This massage helps relax the expecting mother by reducing stress, anxiety, pain and tension associated with child labor. Prenatal massage therapists applies pressure to sore points located throughout the body, but are aware of key areas to avoid such as the wrists and ankles which might stimulate the pelvic and uterus muscles causing premature labor.
Baby Massage $60/40min+GST
Research has shown that neonatal handling affects the neurochemical brain development of certain regions in the brain that regulate the response to stress. The benefits of massage therapy for pre-term infants have been well documented in several studies.
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Massage is a cost-effective therapy for pre-term infants.
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Pre-term infants gained more weight with just five days of massage
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Over the 6-week period, the massage therapy infants gained more weight, showed greater improvement on emotionality, sociability, and soothability temperament dimensions and had greater decreases in urinary stress catecholamines/hormones (norepinephrine, epinephrine, cortisol).
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Infants receiving massage showed fewer sleep delay behaviors and had a shorter latency to sleep onset by the end of the study.
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Massage may have a stress reducing effect on pre-term infants in the NICU.
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Reduction of illness and diarrheal episodes in orphaned children in Ecuador.
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Improve quality of sleep and reduce sleep-disordered breathing in low birth weight babies.
