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Massage Therapy Demonstration Full Body Lymph Drainage

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Head Massage & Neck Massage for Stress Relief

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Head Massage & Face Massage Therapy Techniques

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Greetings Everyone, This weeks video is a typical Swedish Face massage sequence. This sequence should take approximately 4-6 minutes. I hope you are finding these videos useful. They are a joy to create.

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Daphne Metland explains how to soothe tensions with a relaxing massage. Daphne taught antenatal classes for the NCT for over 20 years, so she has prepared hundreds of couples for the birth of their baby. She was launch editor of BabyCentre.co.uk and is co-author of the bestselling book, Expecting.

Daphne: [Standing behind Emily, who is seated]

This is a form of massage that's really useful when you're tired, or stressed, or if labour's slow and you're not getting anywhere, and you're feeling a bit tense. So to start off with, you just need to be comfortable in the chair with your feet flat on the floor, and then lean back against me, and let me take your head [Emily leans her head back]. Our heads are heavy, so just having someone holding your head for a few minutes and taking the weight can be really good, and then just make sure the head's nice and loose[slowly moves Emily's head gently and gradually from side to side].

Well done, you're nice and relaxed there. Good. And then you can massage from the forehead out [sweeps hands across Emily's forehead], or you can come up the forehead, hand over hand [sweeps hands upwards over forehead], it depends which you prefer. Which do you like?

Emily: Forehead out.

Daphne: Right. OK, so like that. Nice relaxing strokes. The person doing the massage has to be relaxed to make this work. So actually it's good for both of you. And then there's one from your chin [sweeps hands upwards and outwards from under the chin up to the ears] right up to the ears, and again, nice gentle strokes, and you can do the temples [massages temples in circular motion], and all this will just take some of the stress away and help you relax. OK? And then there's another one that you can do. Pop your head up [Emily opens her eyes and moves her head forward]. Start under the ears, and just come down the neck, over the shoulders, and down to the elbows [sweeps hands slowly along arms], and then back up again, under the ears, on the neck, over the shoulders, down to the elbows. Is that comfortable? [Repeats process]

Emily: Yes, that's lovely.

Daphne: [Continuing to massage] It's nice and relaxing and gets rid of stress, because we all tend to tense up our shoulders and necks when we're worried about something. This is a good way of just getting rid of that tension, and helping you to slow your breathing down, relax through the contractions and go with each contraction.

[Finishes massage and puts hands on Emily's shoulders]. OK? How does that feel?

Emily: It's lovely, thank you.

Last reviewed: February 2016

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Daphne Metland explains how to soothe tensions with a relaxing massage. Daphne taught antenatal classes for the NCT for over 20 years, so she has prepared hundreds of couples for the birth of their baby. She was launch editor of BabyCentre.co.uk and is co-author of the bestselling book, Expecting.

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Mommy dancing baby down between contractions

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I went looking for my patient to see how she was doing with her squatting. This is what I found in between contractions. Get that baby down mommy!

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Daphne Metland explains how your partner can learn how to ease pregnancy aches and pains through massage. Daphne taught antenatal classes for the NCT for over 20 years, so she has prepared hundreds of couples for the birth of their baby. She was launch editor of BabyCentre.co.uk and is co-author of the bestselling book, Expecting.

Daphne: Lots of women get backache in pregnancy and backache in labour. So it's well worthwhile getting your partner to do some massage for you. Now the easiest way to work out where to massage you is for your partner to run his hands down your spine [Daphne runs her hand down Emily's spine] and then at hip level, go out about two inches. And then he can actually start to massage [begins to gently massage Emily's back]. How does that feel?

Emily: It's lovely.

Daphne: And he can do it using his knuckle or the ball of the thumb. Which do you prefer?

Emily: The ball of the thumb.

Daphne: It's softer, isn't it? So he can massage each side as much as you need, either during contractions or between them. And he needs to put his weight into the massage, to make it easier for him. And if his hands get tired, it's worth having a couple of tennis balls in a sock, because he can then use that to do the massage, and it will make it easier on his hands [massages Emily's back with tennis balls].

So you can just relax, and breathe through the contractions, just let the pain really soak into his hands, so he can share some of the turmoils of labour!

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Daphne Metland explains how your partner can learn how to ease pregnancy aches and pains through massage. Daphne taught antenatal classes for the NCT for over 20 years, so she has prepared hundreds of couples for the birth of their baby. She was launch editor of BabyCentre.co.uk and is co-author of the bestselling book, Expecting.

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Hypnobirthing technique for labour and birth

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Some women have found that hypnobirthing can be helpful for labour and birth