Acupuncture for pregnancy
The best preparation for a healthy pregnancy and birth takes place before conception. Acupuncture treatment can prepare your body for this healthy start.
Difficulties in conceiving can often be helped by improving hormone function. Acupuncture can also help to reverse a tendency to early miscarriage.
Acupuncture is also the treatment of choice through pregnancy as there are none of the possible side effects of Western drugs.
It is particularly useful in the treatment of morning sickness, constipation and turning breech babies. It can even be used to induce labour if necessary.
There is much an acupuncturist can do to enhance the mother’s well-being after the birth as well. Many postnatal problems such as persistent lochia, breastfeeding problems, urinary complaints and depression can be aided by acupuncture treatment.
