Breast Massage For Postnatal Women

Breast Massage For Postnatal Women: Yes; It Is A Thing, Jenn

Good morning, audience. I’m honored to write this article today.

I’m here to talk, or rather write, about Breast Massage For Postnatal Women. In fact, I’m going to be writing the way I speak.

So, first of all, consider the topic.

Honestly, did you even know that Breast Massage For Postnatal Women was even a thing?

Did you even know that Breast Massage was a thing?

I suppose that either way, you saw the title, clicked on the link, and so you sort of know this already, at least from that. But did you know before then?

Oh, and who is Jenn? She’s my cousin who balked at the idea, and when I told her I am certified in this modality as an LMT, she thought I was joking.

Breast Massage For Postnatal Women: Not Without Its Hisdtory

You may think that Breast Massage is some recent idea thought up a crazy hippie lady with too much time on her hands.

In fact, you’re probably only thinking that if you’re not ethnic. Ethnic, you might ask? Yes; ethnic, I reply.

By  that, I mean that women from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and various other places all rely on Breast Massage during their postnatal phase.

Women from India and China, as well as other South and East Asian lands, consider Postpartum Breast Massage essential.

There are even special postpartum services that specialize in Breast Massage and postpartum recovery, specifically. In Korea, for example, such hospitals are known as Sanhujori.

It is an industry in Korea, but only because in that culture people value the postpartum women’s recovery so highly. It is a testament to how much motherhood is respected in that Asian traditional culture. In East Asia, practitioners are equally men and women. In Japan, practitioners are usually men.

And, in India, there are Malishwali, usually women, but sometimes, though  rarely men.

These Traditional Ayurvedic practitioners not only perform Breast Massage for the New Mom, but also for the new baby, as well.

They even help in other ways, and so the equivalent is like an LMT who also is a Postpartum Doula, performing both full body postpartum massage and breast care, as well as infant massage and bathing, and other light tasks.

Breast Massage For Postnatal Women: Training & Practice Required

You may be thinking that there’s nothing to it, and that Breast Massage for Postpartum Women is something that anyone can do without training.

In fact, that isn’t the case at all. To perform Breast Massage successfully, practitioners must take a course in this modality.

Beyond that, Breast Massage is very different than massaging the calf or the neck. The breasts are glands, ligaments, blood, lymph, skin, and very little muscle.

This makes the practice of Breast Massage different than the usual full-body Swedish or Deep Tissue Massage. Really, it’s different than any other Massage Modality by far.

Having a good sense of touch is essential, as the bodywork done with the breasts does not use a significant amount of force.

Breast Massage For Postnatal Women: An Art & Proven Science

While I’ve already articulated how a practitioner of Breast Massage for Postnatal Women must be trained and have a good amount of practice in the vocation, I’ve not yet explained how this is a scientifically-backed practice.

Really, what we’re looking at here is a well-studied art that is also a science with a rapidly growing set of data in support of Breast Massage as an efficacious way of helping new mothers.

There has been a great deal of research in the last twenty years. Why? More women doing research means more women focusing on women’s issues!

Let’s hope the trend of women in STEM professions continues.

Breast Massage For Postnatal Women: What Does It Feel Like? What Does It Do?

Breast Massage is not painful or unpleasant. In fact, Postpartum Breast Massage can really help with engorgement, removing milk, and even helps with painful clogged milk ducts.

Increasing milk supply is an added benefit, and draining the breasts after engorgement is one of the most relieving experiences there is, according to many women.

The experience is highly relaxing, and can even induce let-down of milk or set about uterine contractions, which helps the uterus to return to its pre-preganncy form.

So, the experience does a lot,  and feels good, too. A double bonus.

Really, Breast Massage promotes positive Breast Health for women of all ages and stages of life, but of course, the are particularly important and unique benefits postpartum women experience.