Touch of Grace Massage Therapy by Marissa Lukas, LMT

NEW Massage oil choices will enhance your massage experience at no extra charge! Enjoy the aromatic and therapeutic benefits of essential oils while your stress and tension melt away. Make your appointment with me at Touch of Grace Massage Therapy- because everyone deserves a Touch of Grace!

Who doesn’t love rewards?
Buy 6 sessions, get the 7th half price!

With Christmas Break coming to an end, I’ll be back to normal business hours next week!
Time to book your first massage of 2023!

~It is an honor to serve you~
2023 Appointments Now Available
Touch of Grace Massage Therapy

Give yourself the gift of a massage before the busy week of Christmas is upon us. Call or text Touch of Grace Massage Therapy at (815)791-8005 to schedule your appointment with Marissa Lukas, LMT.

What’s better than an hour of relaxation and self-care? 🧐
How about 90 minutes or 2 hours of relaxation and self-care! 🤩
Get the most out of your sessions by booking a longer appointment with me.

•Touch of Grace•
Massage Therapy
815-791-8005

Doulas are used to providing hands on support for hours…and hours! We tune into your body and work intuitively to find and release areas of tension. As your massage therapist, I will utilize these skills to give you a truly relaxing and therapeutic experience. (And you don’t even need to be pregnant to be my client! 😉)

Contact me for more information and to schedule your appointment today!

Massage is also very effective for your Tuesdays-Fridays.

It’s hard carrying the weight of the world on your back. Give yourself permission to let it go. Schedule your massage today.
(815)791-8005

As a seasoned doula and childbirth educator, I am passionate about nurturing and supporting pregnant women.

Now, as a Licensed Massage Therapist with a Certification in Pregnancy Massage, I am honored to offer my massage therapy services throughout your entire pregnancy!

60-Minute Pregnancy Massage ~ $75
90-Minute Pregnancy Massage ~ $105

Read about the benefits of massage during pregnancy here:
https://americanpregnancy.org/healthy-pregnancy/is-it-safe/prenatal-massage/

Prenatal Massage Therapy Prenatal massage helps reduce anxiety, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, and improve labor outcomes and newborn health.

Now offering massage therapy! Service menu includes Prenatal, Swedish, Deep Tissue, And Hot Himalayan Salt Stone Massages.

https://www.facebook.com/158703487484764/posts/2516394891715600/

All Dads should have 30 minutes of skin to skin with their babies on the first day of life. It rewires their brains.

Why Every Dad Should Have Skin To Skin Time When Baby Is Born | BellyBelly In the immediate time after birth, dads can create a bond with their baby and boost their parenting confidence by having skin to skin.

Please allow me to help you find the birth place and doctor/midwife that is right for you and your personal birth choices. Talk to me about taking my Bradley Method® classes too!

Don't Feel Supported By Your OBGYN Or Midwife? Leave My very first OBGYN’s office was lined with framed magazine pages and plaques. The Best Of The Best! Top 10 Best OBGYNs! Another Important Award! I can’t remember exactly how I chose this office, but I do remember feeling really proud of (smug about) that choice when I saw all these accolades at...

My Bradley Method® classes are so chill that you will be too (in labor)! 😎
Contact me about my next 12 Weeks Series today!
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Partner-Coached Childbirth

It’s original concept and origin begins with Husband-Coached Childbirth as
Dr Bradley’s book by the same name explains.

No women gets pregnant alone... and should not birth alone either! As Dr
Bradley was fond of saying, “a husband should be man enough to finish what
he starts!”

A person who will step up and take care of a pregnant, laboring, and
birthing woman, who is there for her and their baby; physically, mentally,
emotionally, financially, etc. is an incredible thing!

The World is changing and the use of Partner-Coached Childbirth is now an
additional part of The Bradley Method®! Years ago we changed the rules of
who could be at a birth... Husband, Partner, Mother, Dad, Sister, Brother,
Friend, etc. We will forever include those whom the laboring woman wants and
needs during her pregnancy and at the birth.

Find The Bradley Method® of Partner-Coached Childbirth today!!!

www.BradleyBirth.com

We are so excited to announce the newest addition to our OMG Doula Team! Come meet Marissa at the OMG Doula Meet & Greet this Wednesday at 7:30p.

Marissa has been a doula and instructor of The Bradley Method® of Natural Childbirth since 2010. Her own birth experiences have motivated her to help others obtain the safe, healthy, and emotionally satisfying birth experiences they desire. She has a background in elementary education, and she brings her passion for teaching to her work in helping others become fully informed and educated. Marissa and her husband live in the south suburbs with their four children. She enjoys cooking, living a healthy lifestyle, gardening, and her fair share of reading books and binge watching shows in her spare time.

Fourth Stage of Labor and Midwifery | Midwifery Today The fourth stage of labor is defined as the first hour or two after birth. I think we should redefine it as birth to twenty-one years of age, or maybe for the lifetime of the child. The issues never end once you are a parent.

Here's some great info! For more information like this, join me for my 12 week childbirth education classes beginning in January!

POP GOES YOUR AMNIOTIC SAC: AKA WATER BREAKING 101 We all know water can’t really “break,” so when we talk about “water breaking” in labor, what the heck is going on?! IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT SAC: The amniotic sac is a thin, two-layered membrane that lines the uterus and protects the growing fetus and its surrounding amniotic fluid from the ou

Sign Up Now for my January - March Series!
Classes will be held on Mondays at 6:15pm at Main Street Chiropractic in Plainfield.

https://spinningbabies.com/start/in-labor/labor-patterns/
So interesting!

Labor Patterns Long and steady: This is the labor pattern in which the contractions come at fairly regular intervals. Contractions may come in double peaks, a big one with a

Another plus!

Hormones During Natural Labor Protect Against Future Disease Stress hormones produced during labor have a protective effect on a baby's ability to metabolize fats.

Good to know!

Awaiting a new baby? Here’s a tip!

Make sure you ask your health-care team for a baby weigh at the 24-hour mark if you had an IV in labour for more than a few hours. Your baby will have an inflated weight at birth due to your IV fluids, and after 24-hrs has urinated a majority of these out.

Compare their weights to their 24-hr weight for a more accurate idea of how well they’re doing!! A normal percent weight loss (most common reason for supplementation) may look like too much, when the wrong numbers are used.

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(Credit: Marsha Walker, LLL conference 2018)

Wrapped up another 12 week series of childbirth classes last night! We were all so excited to get to meet (and hold!) sweet Sequoia Anna and hear her awesome birth story! What a great group!

How cool is this! 😎😂

You can get one here 👉 https://amzn.to/2Dg0izN

What a great lesson! Give this one a try.

This Train Analogy Will Completely Change How You See Your Crying Child I'll never relate to my crying child the same way again.