Chiropractic and Pregnancy:

Greater Comfort & Safer Births

More and more mothers are discovering the many benefits associated with chiropractic care throughout pregnancy. They appreciate the chiropractor’s respect for the body’s natural design and function. Supportive care providers, renewed trust in the body and the whole-health benefits of chiropractic care being recognized as vital ingredients to a healthier pregnancy and an overall easier birth.

Chiropractic care in pregnancy is an essential ingredient to your prenatal care choices. Preexisting but unnoticed imbalances in your spine and pelvis become stressed during pregnancy. These pronounced discomforts make it difficult to perform routine, daily activities.

A large percent of all pregnant women experience back discomfort/ pain during pregnancy. this is due to the rapid growth of the baby and interferences to your body’s normal structural adaptations to that growth.

Chiropractic care throughout pregnancy can relieve and even prevent the common discomforts experienced in pregnancy. Specific adjustments eliminate the causes of stress in the spine and pelvis.

How can chiropractic add comfort during pregnancy?

We offer specific spinal and pelvic analysis and adjustments for your special needs in pregnancy.

You and your baby’s continued safety and comfort are foremost in our care.

Dystocia is defined as difficult labor and is something every woman wants to avoid. In addition to the pain and exhaustion caused by a long, difficult labor, dystocia leads to multiple medical interventions which may be physically and emotionally traumatic to both you and your baby. Some of these interventions are the administering of pitocin, the use of epidurals, painful episiotomies, forceful pulling on the baby’s fragile spine, vacuum extraction, forceps and perhaps even c-sections. Each of these procedures carry a high risk of injury to you, your baby or both! All of these procedures used to hasten the delivery process can be avoided, however, if delivery goes more smoothly to begin with.

Reviewing the obstetric texts reveals that the commonly reported reasons for dystocia are inhibited nerve function, pelvis imbalance and the baby’s position. Chiropractic care throughout pregnancy may restore nerve function to your uterus, balance to your pelvic muscles and ligaments, and potentially lead to a safer and easier delivery for you and your baby. Additionally, chiropractic care strengthens your nervous system to overcome the many stresses we are subject to. It helps to achieve optimal, overall body function with specific spinal adjustments. Since pregnancy is a time when all of your systems are “functioning for two,” regular chiropractic care throughout pregnancy makes valuable sense.

Preparing for a Safer Birth

Comfort for your baby too!

As your baby develops, your uterus enlarges to accommodate the rapid growth. When the pelvis is in a balanced state, the ligaments connected to the uterus maintain an equalized, supportive suspension. If your pelvis is out of balance in any way, these ligaments may become torqued and twisted, and create an uneven pull on the uterus. This uterine tension may restrict the baby’s movement and hamper eventual optimal positioning. Any compromised position for the baby throughout pregnancy will affect his or her development. Conditions such as torticollis occur because a baby’s space was cramped in utero.

If there is uterine tension as birth approaches, the baby may be prevented from getting into the best possible position for birth. Even if the baby is in the desirable head down position, oftentimes this uterine tension can prevent the baby’s head from moving into the ideal presentation for delivery. The head may be slightly tilted off to one side or, even more traumatically, present in the posterior position. In more extreme cases, the baby does not have the room to move head down and is considered to be breech. Any baby position even slightly off during birth will slow down labor, and add pain and distress to both the mother and baby. Many women have been told that their babies were too big, or labor “just slowed down” when it was really the baby’s presentation interfering with the normal process and progression. Avoidable interventions are implemented, turning a natural process into an operative one.

Published studies have indicated that spinal and pelvis adjustments may even reduce labor time. Doctors of Chiropractic work specifically with your spine and pelvis throughout pregnancy to restore a state of balance and create an environment for an easier, safer delivery.

Information taken from brochure we have in the office:

2013 Dr. Jeanne Ohm. www.makinmiracles.com