Pregnancy Acupuncture, Labour Birth & Beyond
Why Choose Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Acupressure treatment during your Pregnancy?
How Acupuncture Safely Supports Each Trimester.
Pregnancy is an incredible, life transforming experience.
Acupuncture, Shiatsu and Acupressure all help to make this journey more comfortable. By helping you to feel positive and calm, whilst promoting a healthy pregnancy. Treatment focuses on strengthening, re-balancing and nourishing your and your growing fetus and addressing any individual concerns which may arise.
First Trimester
This period can be the most challenging in terms of fatigue, nausea and general anxiety. Acupuncture is an effective way to support you all the way through your pregnancy from conception to labour preparation. Acupuncture reduces the risk of pregnancy issues and promotes a healthy, happy pregnancy.
During the First Trimester, up to week 12, Acupuncture can help prevent and reduce pregnancy nausea, and hyperemesis, and ease stress & anxiety in early pregnancy and aid managing fatigue.
Second Trimester
During this trimester week 13-28, women may feel more at ease, less tired and feel the pregnancy bloom. Every woman's experience is unique. Internally, the fetus undergoes rapid development of body systems. Acupuncture can help reduce heartburn, constipation and haemorrhoids, chronic & acute back pain, sciatica, Symphysis Pubis pain.
Third Trimester
From week 29 to week 40, brings you from late pregnancy into Labour preparation.
If you haven't received any treatment this is a great time to get your body prepared for the final part of your pregnancy.
For first pregnancies, babies may begin to engage by week 36-38.
Acupuncture can play an important role in supporting and assessing and encouraging active self-care and strengthening any constitutional issues. In general during this trimester treatments help reduce breathlessness, improve digestion and constipation, Digestion can be increasingly difficult as the fetus fills nearly the whole abdominal cavity and thereby pushing the intestines, liver and stomach higher.
Treatment will reduce back pain, pelvic, hip pain, and address issues such as cramps, & oedema, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, baby not growing and generally feeling tired and heavy. Acupuncture can also help by reducing anxiety and stress especially leading up to birth preparation.
Labour preparation
From week 36 of Pregnancy – Protocols to Safely and Gently guide Mum to Labour ; including acupressure and massage homework using essential oils also
promoting labour
From week 40 or 1 week before scheduled induction;.Full Case history is essential for new clients before treatment starts.
Post Labour Recovery –
After birth can be an exhausting and sometimes challenging period for Mums and Dads, suddenly adapting to their overwhelming demands of your new role,& loss of previous identity; focus tends to be all on the new baby which can leave some new mums especially feeling they need some attention and care; physical issues such as recovery from birth or caesarean, diastasis recti, low back pain, continence issues, managing sleep deprivation and other external pressures.