You’re Expecting!
The kind of pregnancy, labor and birth you experience has a profound effect on your baby and your body. Pregnancy should be a wonderful time for women, a time when they are supposed to feel good and really be able to enjoy the 40 weeks carrying their baby. Unfortunately, with our lifestyles and the ways our society has evolved, most women do not have the luxury of staying home. A large percentage of women have careers and find themselves working during pregnancy: morning sickness, neck pain, back pain, rib pain, and the list goes on.

It was not until I was an expecting mother myself I began to experience what my patients would confide in me and I realized that many women felt alone in their pregnancies, with no one to help them. When their obstetricians are told of these various discomforts, that answer is usually, “This is ‘normal’ in pregnancy. You’ll have to wait for it to subside or until the baby is born to be relieved of it.” When I became pregnant and over my years of clinical experience, I knew that other mothers need to know about what can be done for the pain and discomfort of pregnancy. The answer of course is CHIROPRACTIC.

Chiropractic is safe and very effective during pregnancy. With over 10 years of clinical experience, being a woman that delivered with natural medication-free childbirth, I have treated hundreds of pregnant women and have seen that regular chiropractic care during pregnancy improves the outcomes of the pregnant women and the baby.

WHY CHIROPRACTIC ?
With regular adjustments and proper nutritional care, the result is a healthier placenta which yields healthier babies and faster delivery and recovery times. The real goal of a midwife and many OBGYN’s is to help the mother build a big, beefy, healthy placenta that will have enough reserves available to adequately support the baby with oxygen during labor and delivery. This is a preventive approach and, with the marriage of chiropractic care, prevents rescuing the baby in distress during its difficult journey to be born.

A chiropractic adjustment is to gently apply pressure to the spinal column relieving the pressure that is pinching a nerve or interfering with blood flow. In pregnancy there are two benefiting from the adjustment, mom AND baby.

BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY :
One of the most common complaints in pregnant women is lower back pain. If we trace the nerve supply form the lower back, which in pregnancy is almost always at the sacral level, we can see that the nerves exiting the sacrum travel directly to the uterus. By restoring proper nerve innervation to the nerves of the sacrum, we improve the function of the part or organ it innervates. This is the basic chiropractic concept. Mom and baby ultimately feel better after the sacrum is returned to proper alignment. Whenever the mother is adjusted, if it is going to make her feel better, the baby she is carrying will receive benefits from the mother’s body being in homeostasis. In the clinical setting, working with a midwife when fetal heart tones were taken with a tachycardia presenting, I witnessed in a large number of cases the tachycardia resolved to normal after the mother carrying the baby receives a chiropractic adjustment.

CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS
The adjustments are actually very gentle and pleasant. With light touch along the spine an experienced doctor of chiropractic can detect and correct misalignments using only very little force. The patient may be seated or may lie down comfortably on a table. There will be no pain and absolutely no harmful side effects. Remember it is not necessary to hear a “pop” to achieve successful results.

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