Massage in the Childbearing Year

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Attend the Midwifery Today conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to learn massage and bodywork. You'll discover ways to support your pregnant clients, facilitate and ease labor, and encourage a rapid recovery, all of which will enhance your practice and enrich the childbearing experience for your clients.

If you work with pregnant and laboring women, these classes will add a vital and enriching element to your practice.

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Massage Articles from Midwifery Today

• Touching Lives—by Keri Redding, LMT
• The Primal Touch of Birth: Midwives, Mothers and Massage—by Kara Maia Spencer, LMP
• A Modern Midwife's Experience with Ancient Maya Techniques of Abdominal/Uterine Massage—by Anne Hirsch
• A Midwife's Touch—by Elaine Stillerman
• Uterine Massage: A New Profession?—by Mary Kroeger, CNM, MPH
• The Rebozo—A transcription of the rebozo workshop given by Doña Irene Sotelo and Naolí Vinaver
• Shiatsu: Another Tool for Keeping Birth Normal—by Suzanne Yates

Online Massage Resources

• massagetherapy.com
• Touch Research Institute

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