OSTEOPATHY + POSTPARTUM

We offer postpartum sessions or postpartum + baby sessions in office and as home visits. These sessions are extended in length and have ample time for both mom/birthing parent and baby to be treated. 

Osteopathic treatment during the fourth trimester focusses on supporting the body as it recovers from the enormous demand put on it during pregnancy and birth. Any stress or strain that the body endures, especially during labor can be held in the body and nervous system impacting your recovery, comfort and confidence. It is important that you have someone to help fill you back up and create an opportunity for your body to heal. Nourish offers just this, using our hands we create an opportunity for the body to heal and finds it way back to optimal and healthy alignment.

During treatment we pay particular attention to the pelvis, pelvic organs, pelvic floor (no internal examinations), upper back, neck and shoulders and help to decrease tension, improve alignment and function of your body. Treatment is very relaxing and helps to bring the nervous system to balance and create a rest within your body to further support your healing.

OSTEOPATHY + BIRTH TRAUMA

All practitioners are highly trained to understand the changes you are experiencing during the postpartum period and support your healing and recovery.

Kylie, is a trained doula, and helps with the processing of birth trauma using cranial osteopathic care. Any stress that you endure during birth may be held in your body and nervous system, impacting the way you feel and your recovery. Gentle treatment helps your body reach a deep resting place where feelings and emotions around birth and your new role can process without talking through it. When the body can rest and realign to the perfect healing forces, the mind can process, beginning to understand on a deeper level all that you have been through. This style of treatment helps you find ease and peace around your birth story, it gives you space consciously or unconsciously to understand your new role as parent and tend to your babies needs. We work closely with therapists and will refer when necessary.

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HOLISTIC POSTPARTUM CARE

Pregnancy from birth to postpartum is a sacred journey that deserves careful attention. Bringing new life into the world is a gift and we are honoured to be able to support you as you grow in this new role. 

At Nourish we take caring for you in the fourth trimester seriously. We not only offer hands on osteopathic care but a workshop, one-on-one or in groups to help prepare you for the postpartum period so you can enter this sacred time with your eyes wide open and empowered, knowing how you can care for your body, mind and heart at this often vulnerable time. 

We believe that careful and close care postpartum not only supports your recovery in the short term but also impacts your long term health and well-being. We work with many practitioners in the area and have a wonderful network of resources to share and help cushion your transition to postpartum. 

How we can help?

 

  • Post birth check up for parent and baby

  • Pelvic pain

  • Bladder and bowel weakness

  • Pelvic pressure

  • Diastasis Recti

  • Low Back Pain

  • Neck and Shoulder pain

  • Mastitis

  • Breastfeeding challenges

  • Milk supply

  • Stress

  • Postpartum depression & anxiety

  • Exhaustion and postpartum depletion

  • Ongoing support for the postpartum body

Kylie knows more about postpartum care than anyone else I’ve ever met - including many of the midwives we worked with. In addition to giving me and my baby treatments throughout the whole pregnancy and early postpartum days (including sweet home visits), she also taught me how to care and advocate for myself as a new parent.  Kylie’s assistance went well beyond the hands-on work: my food, environment, mental health, support team and immediate healing all were made better by her. 

-KAITIE, NOURISH FAMILY