Pregnancy

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been taking care of pregnant women for over 3000 years. Acupuncture offers an effective and safe drug free treatment option during pregnancy for many conditions.

When can acupuncture help?

• Before you conceive, acupuncture can help your fertility and promote the best conditions for your foetus.
• Early pregnancy (until 16 to 20 weeks):
• Threatened miscarriages: acupuncture helps to promote the best environment for the embryo to be implanted and to stay.
• Morning sickness.

From the beginning to the end all the following conditions can be supported:

From 33 weeks

• Acupuncture can turn the malpositioned baby: breech & posterior
• In case of early contractions acupuncture can slow them

From 37 weeks research shows that acupuncture preparation reduces the amount of medical interventions; it helps in having an easier labour and if medical intervention is needed it allows a reduction in the amount of drugs needed.

During labour acupressure (having been taught to your partner or birth support person) will help reduce pain, encourage efficient labour, aid the baby to descend and promote efficient delivery of the placenta.

Postnatal care

Acupuncture can help to treat problems like

• Insufficient lactation
• Wound healing and scar tissue repair
• Postnatal depression
• Urinary incontinence
• Dietary & lifestyle advice for a better recovery
• Uterine bleeding

With tools like Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Emotional Therapies I possess a number of skills that will help you with your emotional and physical concerns.

For example, HealthDay Reporter Steven Reinberg writes:
"Heartburn, the main symptom (of indigestion), was reduced by half in 75 percent of the women treated with acupuncture. Women receiving acupuncture also ate and slept better".
You can download the research article here as a pdf (240 kb) in a new page.

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