Pulling Down the Moon

Prenatal and Postnatal Massage

Serving Chicago and North Shore

Prenatal and Postpartum Massage Therapy

with Breast and Tummy Cut-Outs for Comfort

You’ve received the results – you’re pregnant! Take a deep breath. Pregnancy is an exciting time, and you may be feeling a mixed bag of emotions, from elation and joy to anxiety and stress. It’s perfectly normal to feel this way, and it’s important to find self-care strategies during pregnancy.


Here at Pulling Down the Moon, we know prenatal and postpartum massages are necessities, not luxuries. Prenatal massage nurtures future moms going through all the physical and emotional changes of trying to get pregnant and then growing into a pregnancy. Postpartum massage is designed to support women after giving birth. We use tummy and breast cut-outs to comfort growing bellies, c-sections, and breastfeeding. These unique, specially-tailored massage therapy modalities knead away pain, swelling, and stress naturally while stimulating your body’s healing and wellness powers. No matter where you are on your fertility journey, you deserve the holistic services of postpartum or prenatal massage Chicago women have come to trust for optimizing their health and wellness.

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Get Started with Our Prenatal Massage Therapy

Regular prenatal massage can improve your health and well-being, from conception through delivery. Therapeutic touch provides you with deep levels of relaxation that signal your parasympathetic nervous system, creating physiological balance, steadier blood pressure, pulse, and respiratory rates. Prenatal bodywork may support regular blood flow to the uterus, placenta, and fetus, encourage healthy growth and improve labor and newborn health. Massage can also promote healthier immune system functioning, emotional states, and responses to stressful stimuli. This is good news for you and your baby!


Our exclusive Unwind the Mind Massage is safe and supportive from the time of ovulation, IUI, transfer through the first trimester. Our prenatally certified massage therapists can offer safe and specialized massage during your second and third trimesters.

Prenatal Massage

60 Minute Unwind the Mind FEM $145 (First Trimester)

60 Minute Prenatal Massage $110 (Second and Third Trimester)

90 Minute Prenatal Massage $160 (Second and Third Trimester)

Pulling Down the Moon has developed the exclusive Unwind the Mind Massage that is especially safe, gentle, and relaxing to support women through the sensitive times of the two week wait and throughout the first trimester. This would be followed by our prenatal massages.


Benefits include:

  • Easing muscular tension and pain
  • Activating parasympathetic nervous system, your relaxation zone
  • Increasing dopamine and serotonin, your ‘happy hormones’
  • Releasing stored trauma 
  • Reducing swelling
  • Improving sleep
  • Table features breast and tummy cutouts for nursing & c-section mamas
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What Trimester(s) Should You Receive Massage Therapy?

With your doctor’s approval, you can receive prenatal massage therapy any time before and during your pregnancy and then you can receive our postpartum massage after you deliver your baby. The type of massage recommended depends on your comfort level and where you are along your journey to become pregnant and carry out a healthy pregnancy.

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Traditional Postpartum Massage as well as our exclusive Advanced Recovery Postpartum Massage help support your transition to motherhood during your ‘fourth trimester’, and throughout your first year after delivery.  

Traditional Postpartum Massage

60 Minute Postpartum Massage $120

90 Minute Postpartum Massage $170

Our traditional postpartum massage is a full-body therapeutic bodywork session tailored to your recovery goals through the “fourth trimester”. These postpartum massage help women recover and adapt to their post-pregnancy physical, mental, and emotional life. This includes women who have given birth vaginally, or via c-section. The lighter, broader strokes promote natural pain relief, relaxation, reduced inflammation, and healing at the cellular level.


Benefits include:

  • Easing muscular tension and pain
  • Activating parasympathetic nervous system, your relaxation zone
  • Increasing dopamine and serotonin, your ‘happy hormones’
  • Releasing stored trauma 
  • Reducing swelling
  • Improving sleep
  • Table features breast and tummy cutouts for nursing & c-section mamas
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Advanced Postpartum Recovery Massage



90 Minute Advanced Recovery Postpartum Massage $195

Our exclusively-designed Advanced Postpartum Recovery Massage includes all the benefits of a traditional postpartum massage, while also including additional therapeutic elements to fully reset your body and mind after delivery.


Those additional elements include:

  • Red-light therapy to accelerate the healing of your womb
  • Breast massage with castor oil to enhance lactation and open clogged milk ducts
  • Essential oil lymphatic drainage massage to decrease water retention and regulate hormones
  • Deep tissue external abdominal and pelvic massage to realign organs, heal the pelvic floor, and improve uterine mobility
  • C-section scar tissue for C-section mamas
  • Massage hips and glutes to improve posture and pelvic function
  • Table features breast and tummy cutouts for nursing & c-section mamas
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How Soon After Labor Can I Have This Therapy?

Both types of massage can be received within your first week post-delivery (or once your doctor clears you to receive massage), and are especially supportive during your fourth trimester and throughout your first year post-delivery.

What to Expect During Your Session

Whether you are receiving a prenatal massage or a postpartum massage, you will be welcomed into a warm, quiet, comfortable massage room where you will undress to your comfort level. We will provide the breast and tummy cutout padding and help you position yourself in ways that are most comfortable for you to receive massage, whether that means facing up, facing down, or lying on your side.



Our massage therapists are passionate about helping women through all stages of their fertility and will work closely with you to provide the massage session that will help you feel the most comfortable and relaxed on your journey. Schedule an appointment with us today.

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Our Fertility Massage Clinics

Chicago (River North)

770 N LaSalle Street, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60654

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Highland Park

1770 First Street, Suite 400, Highland Park, IL 60035

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Why Choose Pulling Down the Moon?


At Pulling Down the Moon, our clinics focus on the holistic needs of women, while specializing in fertility issues for couples. We are the leading experts in holistic fertility, and pregnancy. Our programs are nationally recognized by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.


We offer affordable pricing and the possibility of insurance coverage, making our services accessible to all individuals seeking the healing power of massage. Embrace this natural approach to fertility treatment and take a step forward on your path to parenthood with us today.


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Get to Know More About Prenatal & Postpartum Massages

  • What is Prenatal Massage?

    Pulling Down the Moon provides different types of massage to support women through different stages along their journey before the baby is born. Some of these different stages include:


    • Fertility Enhancing Massage (FEM): A five-part protocol designed to stimulate and optimize physical, mental, and emotional well-being to enhance the chances of conceiving. Your massage therapist will choose which session is best for you based on where you are in your cycle and fertility journey. 
    • Unwind the Mind Massage (one of our FEM massages) is a stress-melting massage that safely supports women through the two week wait and the first trimester.
    • Cleanse the Body (one of our FEM massages) is recommended after a failed cycle, miscarriage or if you plan on taking a break from treatment. 
    • Second- and Third-Trimester prenatal massages are designed to naturally comfort and relieve stress, swelling, aches, and pains during the middle and later stages of pregnancy.

    Our licensed massage therapists are certified especially to provide the safe, healing, therapeutic prenatal massage Chicago women need throughout all of these important life stages.


  • Benefits of Prenatal Massage

    Prenatal massage is a nurturing, full-body touch therapy tailored to your comfort level and unique needs. Our massage tables feature tummy and breast cutouts for growing bellies and breasts. Prenatal massage benefits include:

    • Natural muscular pain relief
    • Easing of tense muscles
    • Stress relief through activation of the parasympathetic nervous system
    • Deep relaxation
    • Liberating stored trauma
    • Hormone regulation
    • Increase in the “happy hormones” serotonin and dopamine
    • Decreased inflammation and swelling
    • Deeper, more healing sleep

  • What is Postpartum Massage?

    Postpartum massage helps women recover and adapt to their post-pregnancy physical, mental, and emotional life. This includes women who have given birth vaginally, or via c-section. The lighter, broader strokes promote natural pain relief, relaxation, reduced inflammation, and healing at the cellular level. We use a variety of positions and breast and belly cutouts to accommodate your comfort for a truly relaxing experience. We also offer a our exclusive Advanced Recovery Postpartum Massage which incorporates the use of Red Light Therapy for a speedy recovery.

  • Benefits of Postpartum Massage

    Postpartum massage helps your body heal after one of the most transformative and intense physical and emotional experiences of life, and it comes with a lot of benefits:

    • Musculoskeletal pain and tension relief
    • Deep relaxation through activating the parasympathetic nervous system
    • Boosting your happy, pain-relief hormone levels: dopamine, endorphins and serotonin
    • Releasing trauma stored in your tissues
    • Swelling and inflammation relief
    • Enhancing sleep

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