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Old November 14th 03, 12:53 AM
Carolyn Jean Fairman
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Default Pedicures/Calf Massage...total no-no?

Zucca4 wrote:
interesting...I never gave it much thought either, but after reading
today's posts I decided to ask a totally different doctor, the one
who performs my Bio-physical profiles and he wasn't surprised at
all. Definitley said "death" would be a rare instance but said calf
massage was NOT advisable during pregnancy although a pedicure with a
FOOT massage would be A-ok. He said no one in his present practice
ever suffered a clot to the lungs but when he had started out 20
years ago at his NYC office a young mother had died from what they
finally attributed to a deep massage not performed by a
maternal-massage expert.

Whatever.....for the next two weeks I can do without any calf massage
I guess


This is surprising to me. The prenatal massage I had was seemed deep
and she worked my legs as well as arms and back. It seemed to be
standard. What would an expert do that's so special?

Carolyn


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