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Mastering Pregnancy Massage

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Encycolpedic
This is like an advanced course in working with pregnant women. There is so much info here that I keep coming back to it to learn more. I feel really confident, after watching the tape, to be able to handle the pregnant women who come in for a massage.

Great DVD! Lots of useful information & practical sequences for the beginner and experienced therapist.
I definitely recommend this DVD if you (qualified therapists) do not have time to attend a course or sit and read pages and pages on this subject.
Great for reviewing over & over, good confidence boost!

Mastering Pregnancy Massage

I found this DVD very helpful. I would recommend this to anyone interested in pregnancy massage.

Leslie Stager gives a wealth of information in a short amount of time. Her years as a labor and delivery nurse, childbirth educator, and midwife gives her confidence and professionalism. She demonstrates proper draping and body positioning fit for pregnancy massage. It covers a broad spectrum of pregnancy issues and even includes a client intake form with questions geared to the pregnant woman.

If you are interested in this DVD, I suggest you look at my book and other DVD's which can be great additions to your library. Nurturing Massage for Pregnancy: A Practical Guide to Bodywork for the Perinatal Cycle is a comprehensive text that covers all the specifics needed for offering optimum perinatal massage care. Some of the clips from this DVD Mastering Pregnancy Massage are available online to support the information in the book. Additionally, take a look at MotherTouch: Nurturing Touch for Birth and Touch Techniques for Birth,(available online Dec 09) two new DVD's encouraging the use of touch and massage during labor and birth.

This video covers everything it states and more, sometimes too much more.
I too have worked as a L&D nurse, and even I could only take it in short snips.
Though I do believe all massage therapist should know the information before doing a pregnancy massage.
So, find a comfortable chair, get some tea, a scones or two, and pay attention there is a lot here.

This pregnancy massage dvd was excellent. I feel much more prepared to give pregnancy massage now. I only wish I could get CEU credits for it!

Lots of information is given in this DVD. I liked that you could go straight to specific conditions. This video was a good review and did provide me with several new techniques that I can easily incorporate into my massages. Prenatal massage was included in my basic massage class. I haven't taken any advanced prenatal courses; thus, I found this DVD very beneficial.

I think this is a very good video. I found it well organized and easy to follow. If I could think of a weakness I would say it lacks chair massage modifications and I don't recall any precautions given for laying a pregnant woman on her left side. But, overall a very good video.

Informative and very helpful. Good for those new to massage and also those that have experience but are still uncomfortable with giving pregnancy massage. Leslie supplies good information yet frequently talks for too long when you just want to see her technique. Video is broken up into multiple sections varying from positioning, techniques for specific conditions, sequences and extra information. Highly recommend this video to any therapist that would like to improve on pregnancy massage.