Touch Techniques for Pregnancy and Postpartum (MASS/09TOUC05) INACTIVE
Schedule:
May 22-23, 2010
Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Credits:
14 contact hours
Audience:
Open to labor and birth support persons or professionals: spouse/partner, doulas, LMPs, childbirth educators, midwives and other health care professionals
Cost:
Professional $279
Student $139
Group Discount - 2 or more $251
CEUs from Lamaze International pending approval
Room 186. One hour lunch.
Note: please bring blanket, mat and a pillow for floor work.
Description: Research shows that pregnant and postpartum women and their babies benefit from supportive touch. This course is designed for anyone in a support role with a pregnant woman (i.e. spouse/partner, doula, midwife, nurse, close friend or relative) who is seeking to learn and develop respectful, safe and effective skills for using touch to support, reassure, and relax a new or expecting mother.
While physical therapists and massage therapists are especially suited and trained to address the musculoskeletal changes that pregnancy brings, touch lies within the scope of partners, doulas, midwives and nurses – a whole community that can support the mother in this way. Often a woman either cannot afford massage or simply feels more comfortable being touched by someone she already knows.
The seminar is an introduction to hands-on techniques for pregnancy, birth and post-partum.It includes:
•Benefits of touch during pregnancy and post-partum •Physiology of touch and stress •How touch impacts the giver •Safe touch, boundaries and permission •‘Listening’ with your hands •Contraindications for touch during pregnancy and post-partum •Overview of common pregnancy and post-partum pain patterns, causes and compensations •Positioning for comfort •When and how to refer •Hands-on techniques and how they work •How to use what is in the doula resource bag •Resources for additional learning
Instructor:Laurie Levy, MA, LMP, CD, CBE, is a Seattle-based massage therapist, doula, childbirth educator, college anatomy instructor and mom to three high-energy boys. She began teaching massage in 1997 and was certified in pregnancy and postpartum massage by Kate Jordon Seminars in 2004. Since that time, Levy has been sharing her knowledge of ways to help mothers prepare their bodies for birth, be more comfortable in labor, and to speed healing during the postpartum period. Laurie brings a large amount of enthusiasm, experience and compassion to her seminars.
