Restoring and reconnecting your body post-birth is often overlooked.

Pregnancy, birth and caring for a newborn can place a lot of stress on the body which needs time to recover, recuperate and relax.

Our postnatal massage focuses on addressing any issues that arose prenatally, through birth, or postnatally - whilst still giving you some much needed 'time out'.

In the treatment we address the muscular strains and imbalances from pregnancy, birth and all the new carrying, feeding and lifting you are now doing. It will help restore your body to a state which is ready for life with a newborn and enable you to move in a way that will heal, not hinder.

Using advanced massage techniques, we restore function, reduce pain and improve movement and mobility. The treatment is always tailored to the individual and their goals and can help new mums in the following ways:

Reconnect with your core - regain confidence in your body through massage and breath work to strengthen and stabilise your core and prevent pressure being applied down into your pelvic floor.

Restore correct breathing patterns - restore damaged breathing patterns through verbal coaching and hands-on treatment.

Softening tissue - ease tensions, help close any tummy separation by drawing the rectus abdominis muscles back together and reduce any stiffness and lack of movement in the tissue, to help bring your posture back to a more neutral, functional position.

Restore correct alignment and imbalances between muscle groups - this helps to activate/relax any muscles that aren’t firing correctly - During pregnancy, hips widening, over extension or shortening through the core and rounding of the shoulders are common. As well of course is the stretching of the abdomen!

Improve pelvic floor function - being able to activate and relax your pelvic floor muscles correctly will help prevent urinary urgency, incontinence, vaginal or rectal prolapse, help strengthen and flatten your tummy and make sex feel better too!

C-section scar work can be included if needed, please have a look here.

Postnatal massage can help:

• you reconnect with your core

• restore correct breathing patterns

• restore correct alignment and imbalances between muscle groups

• ease pain/ stiffness/ tensions in the body from pregnancy, birth, and caring for a baby

• improve pelvic floor function

• improve C-Section pains and tightness (see C-Section scar massage)

• speed up recovery

• improve energy levels

• reduce stress

• improve sleep

• improve range of movement/ flexibility

Always personalised to you, before your appointment, we’ll ask you what your goals are from the treatment to ensure you get exactly what you need from your postnatal massage.

We will perform an assessment visually, and manually of your issues either in standing or on the massage couch, to help determine the course of our treatment.

We can work both on skin and through clothes so you will only undress to a level that is comfortable to you.

Following your treatment, homecare advice, stretching and additional strength or functional information will be provided. We will also refer you to any other postnatal healthcare providers that may be needed in your postnatal recovery.

Our aim is always to help you understand your body better and for you to be able to continue your care and recovery at home - we believe in long term not short term help.

Please note that appointment times include assessment times and dressing time, so expect around 50 minutes of hands on massage in a 60 minute treatment.

All of our therapists are highly qualified, fully insured and members of professional governing bodies.