During your pregnancy, your body will go through significant changes; these changes will affect the emotional, hormonal and physiological balance of your body. Reflexology can help to alleviate or prevent discomfort arising from this imbalance and restore the body’s equilibrium.

Reflexology can also assist with :

• Reduce and normalize high blood pressure (hypertension).
• Normalize low blood pressure
• Eliminate edema and reduce swelling in feet and ankles
• Prevent heartburn
• Relieve back pain and discomfort
• Improve sleep quality
• Clear headaches
• Relieve vericose veins
• Clear pelvic congestion
• Improve lymphatic drainage 
• Aid digestion by boosting the pancreatic secretion of digestive hormones (the pancreas can become sluggish during pregnancy due to the effect of the placental hormones).
• Oxygenate the baby by improving the blood flow within your whole body
• Help you carry your baby to term
• And, at the end of pregnancy, can encourage labor and intensify contractions and encourage short delivery times

Research has shown that regular reflexology treatments during pregnancy can shorten the duration of labour, with subjects often requiring less pain-relief during the course of delivery.

It is best to start Reflexology treatments after the 12th week of pregnancy once the placenta is fully established within the uterine wall. If you are experiencing nausea/vomiting or headaches, Reflexology treatments can be applied by avoiding the uterus reflexes until you enter the 2nd trimester of your pregnancy.