A "Nurturing the Mother" certified therapist means your session(s) are focused on you and your little one(s) to address where you are in your pregnancy to help minimize (if not eliminate) discomforts along the way until the day you meet face to face.  Certified areas include pregnancy massage, labor massage and support, postpartum massage, reflexology for pregnancy and childbirth, related cautions and contraindications, and nurturing the couple instructor training.  Areas of expertise include information to make your pregnancy as well as labor and delivery an easier process by preparing your body for the arrival of your precious gift, extensive knowledge of contraindications and pathologies, focused bodywork by trimester to address the physiological and biomechanical changes to your body, information/questions to ask your primary care provider to ensure your labor and delivery are more a joyous event rather than a "crisis", partner (for each of you) massage to deepen the bonds between you both during this special time, massage during labor and birth is available especially to those working with a mid-wife or doula for an at-home birth, postpartum (our western culture spends very little time with this critical period compared to other cultures) care to begin to transition the mother to the phases of motherhood, and techniques for parents regarding newborn and infant stages for massage.