PRE-NATAL SERVICES

What are Pre-Natal Services?

Holistic pre-natal services are natural health tools – nutrition, acupuncture, massage, reflexology, reiki – that provide safe, effective and gentle support to women during all stages of pregnancy and post-partum. These tools focus on promoting overall health and vitality, as well as providing drug-free options for common pregnancy related symptoms.

As a woman’s body changes through the different stages of conception, pregnancy and child-birth, holistic services can help in maintaining good health and safely alleviating symptoms associated with the body changes. In addition, holistic pre-natal care provides emotional and mental support by de-stressing, centering and balancing, thereby allowing the expectant mother to prepare for child birth on all levels – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Pre-Natal or Pregnancy Massage
BY LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST, CERTIFIED IN PRE-NATAL MASSAGE – Jessica White, LMT
1 hour treatment: $95 • 1.25 hour treatment: $115

Pre-natal massage focuses on the specific health needs of the expectant mother by adjusting the table for optimum support and utilizing special massage techniques to ensure comfort, health and safety. A certified pregnancy massage therapist is knowledgeable about all stages of pregnancy and post-partum health and can help relieve muscle cramps, spasms, and myofascial pain, especially in the lower back, neck, hips, and legs; increase blood and lymph circulation, which can reduce swelling; reduce stress on weight-bearing joints; and improve outcome of labor and ease labor pain. In addition, couples massage, labor support massage and post-partum/lactation massage techniques are offered and taught upon request.

Pre-Natal Reflexology
BY NATIONALLY CERTIFIED REFLEXOLOGIST – Mayuri Sobti, ND, NCR
1 hour treatment: $80 • 1.25 hour treatment: $95

Reflexology is a safe, effective and gentle modality that applies finger and palm pressure to reflex points on the hands and feet to increase circulation and energy flow throughout the body. Reflexology is considered safe during pregnancy and helps with promoting optimal health and well-being. In studies, reflexology has shown to help with common pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness, fluid retention, swelling, digestive discomfort, aches and pains, and fatigue. It has also been shown to help with post-partum health by increasing milk flow, helping menses return and overall stress, anxiety & depression.

Pre-Natal Acupuncture
BY LICENSED ACUPUNCTURIST WITH A SPECILIZATION IN WOMEN’S FERTILITY HEALTH – Kerri Westhauser, L.Ac.
Initial visit (1.5 hours): $125 • Follow-up treatments (1 hour): $85

Acupuncture is an effective and trusted holistic modality for all aspects of women’s reproductive health from increasing fertility health for conception to maintenance of a health pregnancy to post-partum care. A trained acupuncturist assesses the underlying imbalances resulting in common pregnancy symptoms – nausea, fatigue, migraines, bleeding, digestive discomfort, joint and back pain, circulatory issues – and helps alleviate them through acupuncture.