DEFINITION

During pregnancy, there is an increase in hormone production. It leads, among other things, to a greater tendency for sodium reabsorption and as a result, water retention, which produces swelling.

Lymphatic drainage will reduce stress hormones and increase the blood flow around your lymphatic system to flush out toxins and water retention, allowing a healthier environment for the growing foetus. This has the added benefit of providing the foetus with a better quality of nutrients due to the increased blood flow. The treatment also relaxes and relieves muscle tension and pain, decreases anxiety, and helps to alleviate puffy faces, ankles, feet and the feeling of heavy legs.

Our Lymphatic drainage treatment is a full body treatment (not the face). Our Physiotherapists/Physio Assistants can prioritise problematic areas, assessing the presence and progress of diastases, reversing the pelvic technique in the case of C-sections, preventing any occurrence of venous return and relieving areas of tension from a safe and anatomical standpoint.

As Lymphatic drainage is a detox massage, it improves circulation and metabolism and is highly recommended Postpartum too. It aims to flush away excess fluids (including those received via IV during labour or delivery) and rebalance hormones, getting the body into a healing mode and reducing downtime post-pregnancy.