Pregnancy And Infant Massage

Course details

During pregnancy, a woman grows physically, faces hormonal changes, swelling, depression, stress, anxiety.

Recovery allows the body to return to normal. There has been hormonal imbalance and the uterus needs to return to pre-pregnancy size too. Many women will tell you they feel fatigue, some will have post delivery blue which may last between days to weeks.

Generally, we take good care of the new mummy and give her adequate rest, nutritious food which can produce more milk, and massage.

BENEFITS OF POSTNATAL MASSAGE

• Massage is essential to help her remove toxins
• remove water retention and help her heal faster
• relief fatigue and relax her body and mind
• slim down faster with special tummy flattening techniques

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME

To enable the candidate to perform a postnatal massage safely, bind the client’s tummy effectively and help the client detox and encourage blood and lymph flow.  This is a massage every new mum needs! PTA helps you understand the anatomy of delivery and what to avoid, how to perform a safe massage and help new mums reap all the benefits of a good javanese postnatal massage.

This is a pre-requisite before we recommend you the Manual Lymphatic Drainage Massage.

Course Outline

MAIN

• Introduction to Postnatal Massage
• Anatomy related to reproductive system
• sequence and technique for post natal massage
• binding techniques
• consulation and contraindications
• customer service

OTHERS

• Aftercare Advice
• preparation, hygiene, safety and post-natal massage activities

ENTRY LEVEL

Secondary school. Understands and reads English or Mandarin.