 When your body is going through a huge change as miraculous and wonderful as pregnancy, it's a good idea to make sure your body is optimally healthy. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to get regular chiropractic care. Chiropractic care helps make pregnancy safer, more comfortable, and easier on you and your baby!
I have been talking a lot about healthy lifestyles and the best things for you to reach your highest level of health, with chiropractic care being one of the top priorities on that list. Healthy eating, exercise, rest and relaxation, and positive thinking are the other four important practices that contribute to a healthier you. One of the most common questions I hear is whether it is safe to receive chiropractic care during pregnancy. If you read my blog on my FAQs, then you will absolutely know it is! I wanted to spend a little more time discussing this topic and to share why chiropractic is one of the best things you can do for yourself as an expectant mother and how much it will help your baby! I would recommend that any pregnant woman strongly consider chiropractic care. It is an excellent way to deal with pain, changes in your body, and to help ensure safer pregnancy and childbirth. As a pregnant woman grows and the baby gets bigger, a woman's center of gravity changes, which can affect posture. This can create a lot of pain in your lower back and hips. Chiropractic care can help keep the spine aligned, help keep pressure off the nerves and keep pain at a minimum, if not get rid of it completely. Spinal misalignments (subluxations) can result from these changes in your body, creating pain for you on top of the many other physical changes you're going through. When subluxations get removed from your spine, pain in the back, neck, hips and other joints is diminished. Chiropractic can also help strengthen your body so that these changes don't affect you as harshly. It can also help control nausea and its symptoms, along with helping you sleep through the night during your pregnancy. I, along with most chiropractors am trained to care for pregnant patients. We believe that it should be a part of your routine care during your pregnancy, just like any of your other doctor's appointments. Table adjustments will be made for a mother's growing belly and the techniques used will not put pressure on the abdomen. I am specifically trained to help with any breech presentation, helping to keep the baby in proper alignment for a healthy and safe birth. Not only does chiropractic care help the mother, but it can also offer wonderful benefits for a baby too. It can help widen and keep the pelvis open, along with keeping it aligned. This provides the baby with room to move through the birth canal, leading to an easier, quicker and less painful delivery. If the pelvis is out of alignment, it can be very difficult for the baby to move to the optimal position to be born. If the baby is not in the right position, it might affect having a natural and noninvasive birthing process, leading to a c-section. As I have mentioned before, chiropractic care helps keep the spine aligned, allowing all messages from the brain to travel through the nerves without any interference. This then allows the body to function as it should and at its highest level. Another great reason to go to a chiropractor during your pregnancy is that your baby is getting all of their nutrients from you. If your body isn't optimally healthy, you're not passing 100% of health through your nutrition along to the baby. If you want your baby to be healthy, you want to stay healthy. Pain during pregnancy is not uncommon, but that doesn't mean you should accept it as part of the experience. Don't just assume that having joint and body pain is something normal that you will have to suffer through just because you're pregnant. Chiropractic care can help ease if not eliminate pain connected to pregnancy related subluxations. Chiropractic care is great for pregnant women because it offers a drug-free option of easing pain, tension, nausea, and insomnia. The use of over the counter or prescription drugs is not recommended for pregnant women because drugs can cause harm to both mother and baby. Chiropractic care can help manage pregnancy related pain without using medications. As I mentioned above, it is very important to follow and practice the 5 elements of health during your pregnancy. As those food cravings start coming during pregnancy, try to avoid those processed sugars and saturated fats as much as possible. Keep eating as healthy as possible. Rest and relax, drink plenty of water, and stay active (as much as your doctor says is safe!). If you have any questions about chiropractic care during your pregnancy please don't hesitate to reach out and call us. I would be more than happy to talk about your concerns and to get you started on your chiropractic journey! Until then, I'm Dr. Bob and I've got your back covered. Take care!
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What chiropractic can help with during pregnancy: Body misalignment Ideally, our spine should be a straight line down the middle of our back. While this is not the case for many people, it is especially not the case for pregnant women. When carrying a child, it is difficult to maintain alignment due to how the child sits. When there is pressure put on our bodies where usually there isn’t, our posture changes. This is seen with a slight -or drastic- curve in the back of pregnant women. A curved back is common, and treatable when chiropractic is used throughout the pregnancy. Along with a curved back, the pelvis also undergoes changes. Pelvic changes occur through the body’s natural way of preparing women for delivery. The pelvis needs to be wider to allow her child to pass through in a safe, effective manner. With chiropractic, these changes can be monitored and regulated for comfort and safety. Relieve Pain Undergoing bodily changes is a painful process. Pregnancy can cause women discomfort and trouble sleeping. While pain is different for each individual, chiropractic has shown to relieve it. Our bodies depend on balance, and when that balance has been disrupted, a chiropractor can assist. Talk to our staff at Lowcountry Chiropractic about the pain you are having so we can make an individualized care plan for you and your baby. Relieve Symptoms With pregnancy comes nausea, discomfort, and vomiting. Every pregnancy for each woman is it’s own special experience, so the symptoms may be vast and varied. Chiropractic has been successful in easing and often times eliminating symptoms such as nausea during a woman’s pregnancy with regularly scheduled visits and individualized care plan. Position of the Baby Chiropractic can assist in the safe positioning of the baby. There can be many complications during a pregnancy. Most come as symptoms from the positioning of the baby. The proper and careful adjustment of the mother’s body can help the baby be positioned for a healthy pregnancy. This can also reduce the time of labor and delivery because the baby will be in optimal positioning through the pelvic cavity. Are you pregnant and interested in relieving your symptoms? Make an appointment with Lowcountry Chiropractic. Our team would love to speak with you to determine if chiropractic is the right course for you and your baby! |
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