Category Archives: Birth Doula

Teaching Labor Massage to Doula Clients and Birth Partners

By Liz Green, CD (toLabor), LMT, CR The Gate Control Theory tells us that touch can override pain sensations in the body – sensations from touch reach the central nervous system faster than pain sensations.  We instinctively hold an area when we injure it to calm pain. Massage is a naturally effective technique to use […]

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The Benefits of Massage During Pregnancy

By Liz Green, CD (toLabor), LMT, CR Prenatal massage helps to manage the aches and pains of pregnancy, increases quality of sleep, improves mood, decreases edema, releases hormones in the body that counteract stress, fear and anxiety, and it feels great for baby too! It can help pregnant bodies to maintain good balance and alignment in […]

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Mama Jane Massage Updates Spring 2014

This year has been super busy for Mama Jane Massage! I am booked with clients until July. In addition to my full-time massage practice at Natural Balance, I am doing two prenatal appointments and one or more postpartum appointments, plus additional massages as needed, with my doula clients. Every family’s birth is beautiful and difficult […]

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What Birth Work Is…

As I’m taking a break from editing the June quarterly newsletter for the Colorado Doulas Association (as is my Publications Chair board duties), I’m reflecting on all the things I do as a doula that don’t involve being present at a family’s birth. Having only attended four births so far, I still find that every […]

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Stone Massage for Pregnancy

Last weekend I took a class called Hydrostone at the Colorado School of Healing Arts, my beloved alma mater. It’s been five years since I took classes at CSHA and being there reminds me how much I love being in school – learning new things and being around positive, inquisitive energy. What I learned from […]

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