massage in first tri mester?

[Polly]

Yet what mother to be is going to risk spontaneous abortion in order to help the masses know what is and is not safe as far as touch therapies go?

To me the "risk" of first trimester massage is BS. But alot of "ways to keep healthy" from the medical community is BS.

 

[furgetabowdit]

Yes I would never expect there to be for example a trial carried out on first semester women, that would be immoral.
Perhaps though a statistical analysis of activities in the week prior to miscarriage after the event against a control group would identify true risk factors rather than traditional bogeys.
The information is probably already available, but needing analysis.

 

[eternalnirvana999]

I will never do it. To much guilt to go with the trauma and the liability if it happens.

 

[apples]

Besides massage educators and their students, who is now propagating the proposal that massage is potentially harmful in the first trimester?

Any idea where this idea came from in the first place?

I spent a little time googling this as "miscarriage risk factors"and could not find any reference to massageas a possible cause

 

[rosieraddy]

Perhaps though a statistical analysis of activities in the week prior to miscarriage after the event against a control group would identify true risk factors rather than traditional bogeys.
The information is probably already available, but needing analysis.

I'll take part in this informal study. My one & only miscarriage (of 4 pregnancies) I definitely did not have massage. Did NOTHING any different than any of my other pregnancies.

I'd think that would be a huge proportion of the anwers you'd get for that study.

My vote says work on the client. She may not be pregnant. You've probably worked women who didn't know they were pregnant yet before, but you can't assume information she hasn't confirmed.