Gentle and considered care during your pregnancy. Our focus is on helping you feel more comfortable and supporting your pregnancy experience.
We strive to ensure a safe and comfortable environment and work within a wholistic approach to support you during pregnancy. By providing a traditional Chinese acupuncture style of care for physical, mental and emotional wellbeing we aspire to help improve your overall experience along side addressing any specific pregnancy concerns.
Using effective communication during treatments, we seek to ensure clarity in how your acupuncture experience may feel so you remain comfortable and relaxed.
If you’d like more information on how our pregnancy acupuncture services could support you and your baby, call us on 021 081 59228 or make a booking online.
Pregnancy acupuncture is a gentle modality that may assist expectant mothers who wish to avoid pharmacological intervention where advised by their GP or midwife.Â
We work with conditions such as:
Acupuncture is a well known method to provide support for many pregnancy related conditions naturally, including pain where medications are wanting to be avoided for a time, or nausea as an addition to medications for optimal outcomes. Did you know acupuncture is endorsed by the World Health Organisation for back pain during pregnancy?
Even with the use of very small pins, it can come as a surprise for many women to find their pregnancy acupuncture is deeply relaxing and enjoyable.
Your acupuncturist Eleanor is fully qualified and experienced in dealing with pregnancy related conditions. Find out more about the safety of acupuncture here.
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Early pregnancy is the transition through the first trimester and can bring some common issues women look to navigate naturally. These may include:
Acupuncture can be used along side regular care from midwives, obstetricians and gynecologists and in later pregnancy can assist if pain or other issues become difficult to navigate without medications.
From 33 to 35 weeks acupuncture can be taken weekly to prepare the rapidly changing body and mind, support hormones and address other aspects of wellbeing:
Pre-birth acupuncture is thought to be supportive in improving the over all birth experience.Â
“Acupuncture induction” is a term to describe a set of acupuncture points selected under the Chinese medicine theory to promote downward movement of energy within the uterus. Specific points are stimulated that are thought to promote cervical ripening and uterine tone, induce deep relaxation and foster natural oxytocin production.
Treatments can be opted for by women looking to take a natural route to labour onset or support the medical labour induction if taken before hand. Whether your endeavoring for the most natural birth possible or looking to support a medical induction, acupuncture is thought to support the body via stimulating parasympathetic activity to aid labour onset.
In this study from 2001 acupuncture was found to assist in cervical ripening and could shorten the time of EDC and actual time of delivery.
Postpartum acupuncture is used by women to consolidate the new mother experience into body-mind and spirit. Attention is paid to balance hormonal systems, integrate the experience of birthing and address any lingering stress or trauma.Â
The calming nature of acupuncture may help promote the mental and emotional transition in to motherhood by:
This New Zealand study found that 89% of the pregnant women treated for lower back and pelvic pain had a clinically meaningful reduction in their symptoms.​
Evidence for the use of acupuncture from a New Zealand hospital finds women were well supported in reducing pain levels during their birth redying acupuncture treatments.
We’d love to help you, so please let us know if you have any questions or if you are ready, you can book an appointment online.
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