Craniosacral Resonance in Pregnancy and After Childbirth
Pregnancy is one of the most challenging periods in a woman’s life. Her body changes as it adjusts to the growing baby. The hormonal shift and the presence of a new being may bring physical and emotional challenges. It may affect the way mothers relate to their environment or bring a sense of concern or unease with this new situation. In these moments, Craniosacral Resonance can offer effective support to address these issues.
The Power of the Touch
One of the core aspects of craniosacral resonance is a gentle touch. The same quality of touch plays an important role to support bonding between a mom and her baby after birth. Studies have shown that pregnant women who receive a loving touch during pregnancy tend to more readily offer a loving touch to their infant. Craniosacral Resonance sessions are an ideal opportunity during these prenatal times to experience a gentle, harmonious, loving and nourishing touch. It also helps pregnant women to strengthen the connection with her own body and the bond with the developing baby.
Stress Relief and Balance
A craniosacral resonance session helps pregnant women to gently relax, let go of daily stress, effectively release tensions from unresolved physical or emotional conditions and establish a sense of balance and harmony between body and spirit.
Craniosacral resonance sessions are also an opportunity for pregnant women to share their fears and concerns. Through an empathetic exploration, they can discover new resources as well as a sense of inner strength that enables them to address any issues with more clarity.
Preparing for Childbirth
Craniosacral resonance also helps pregnant women to prepare for an optimal childbirth by improving the mobility and flexibility of the pelvis or lower back therefore easing or preventing hip or lower back pain. It can also help the baby to find an optimal position.
Craniosacral Resonance After Childbirth
Childbirth is the most natural and miraculous event in life, yet it can also bring plenty of physical and psychological challenges. The time after childbirth tends to be stressful due to the intense care a newborn baby requires as well as a disruption of a previous routine. At the same time, a woman’s body is also going through turbulent hormonal and physiological changes.
Craniosacral Resonance sessions may be a valuable support for new mothers in processing and integrating the experience of childbirth on both a physical and emotional level using touch as well as verbal communication.
Using touch and talk, craniosacral resonance therapies after childbirth help new mothers to process both the physical and emotional experience of childbirth.
Physical Recovery
The focus of sessions after delivery is to balance the pelvis and spine and to rehabilitate muscles and soft tissues, especially following a Caesarean section or other forms of medical procedures. Craniosacral resonance treatments may also offer a frame during this early period of intensive childcare to explore ways in which the mother can recover strength and regain physical and emotional wellbeing.
Psychological Support
Childbirth and the period that follows are often psychologically challenging. Mothers are aware of the physical changes of their bodies. Also, the attention once received by the mother from other people is now naturally shifting towards the baby. This new being becomes the new focus.
During these times, mothers may need additional support to maintain a balance between giving and receiving, nurturing and being nurtured, between taking care of their newborn while receiving a caring support and caring for themselves.
In these first weeks after birth, Craniosacral Resonance sessions can offer an essential support in this direction. This will eventually reflect positively on the whole family.
