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Antenatal acupuncture with Amanda
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Looking after you and your baby … naturally
Being pregnant is a very special time during which mother and baby may need to take extra care of their natural health. Many physically and emotionally demanding changes take place which are followed by the joys and challenges of parenthood and the personal growth it brings.
Optimum health
Acupuncture offers an enormous amount to pregnant women who want to ensure they maintain optimum health throughout their pregnancy and into their first years with their new child. It is safe, effective, drug-free treatment which offers a natural solution to many of the minor ailments of pregnancy.
Lasting benefits
In addition to treating ailments, acupuncture can be used to promote general well-being and vitality during the process of creating new life.
Chinese medicine considers pregnancy to be an opportunity for the expectant mother to greatly improve her health, more so than at other times, leading to lasting health benefits. Traditionally acupuncture is given at three, six and nine months to ensure this.
Birth preparation
Acupuncture can also be used to physically and emotionally prepare expectant mothers for childbirth. Research shows that women receiving this kind of treatment have shorter, more efficient active stages of labour and require less medical intervention throughout.
Personal focus
Amanda offers personally-tailored Preparing for Birth treatments which focus on relaxation, gathering of reserves and ensuring free flowing energy, particularly around the hips and cervix.
Spring birthing special offer
Book a course of three Preparing for Birth acupuncture treatments for £100 and receive a free induction or postnatal treatment. Beginning at 37 weeks, the first of these sessions is 1 1/2 hours long to enable careful assessment of personal needs.
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Breech or posterior presentations
Acupuncture can be used to prepare for efficient birth by encouraging babies to adopt a head down, back-facing-forwards position. Research shows that such treatment can have a significant effect in helping to turn breech babies when undertaken at 34 weeks (and can still be useful later in pregnancy as well).
Induction
Acupuncture can also be used to gently encourage labour as a safe, drug-free alternative to medical induction. Ideally timed at about ten days after your due date, some women find this simple treatment is all that is needed to initiate contractions which progress to an efficient labour.
Natural labour
Birth is an extremely dynamic natural process that is ideally directed by the flow of energy within the mother’s body. Precisely timed acupuncture and acupressure can greatly assist this process by encouraging smooth and efficient transitions during the active stages of labour.
Acupuncture can also help a birthing mother to stay calm and in control of the birth, to better cope with pain and to avoid becoming too exhausted. Women commonly report satisfying birth experiences after following this approach.
Amanda has experience of using acupuncture and acupressure in both single and twin births.
Postnatal care
Acupuncture can be used to enhance well-being during the early months of motherhood, when endurance is required on all levels. Treatment is focussed on recovering energy levels, promoting good nutrition and lactation and assisting healing of any scarring or over-stretched tissues.
Mother warming using moxibustion is an ancient Chinese technique designed to thoroughly nurture mothers during their postpartum weeks.
Booking
Call us on 01458 830865 to book an appointment with Amanda or email reception@chaliceleazeclinic.co.uk for further information.
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Antenatal acupuncture
Download Amanda's client information sheet about antenatal acupuncture.
Special offer
Book a course of three Preparing for Birth antenatal acupuncture treatments and receive a free induction or postnatal treatment.
Special offer
Free introductory consultation for every new client.
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