Acupuncture, when done in the months leading up to conception, may increase your chance of getting pregnant.
Perhaps you are thinking of starting a family and want to give your potential new baby the best possible start, as well as make sure that you are as fertile as you would like to be. Maybe you’ve been on birth control for many years and you’re worried that it will take a while to conceive. Or maybe you’ve been trying to conceive for a while without success. Acupuncture can help.
Acupuncture may set the stage for optimal fertility, and can help encourage a healthy pregnancy. It may also help you avoid some of the common complications like elevated blood pressure or fetal positioning issues that may lead to unwanted medical interventions.
Acupuncture can help make the experience of being pregnant easier, and more enjoyable.
The books tell you that by the mid-to-end of your third trimester, your baby will be in a head down position, readying themselves for birth. When your baby doesn’t drop or is in the wrong position, we call it “malposition” or “malpresentation”. You might have also heard the words breech, transverse, posterior, or even sunny-side-up. Regardless of what you call it, we can help create the ideal situation for your baby to move into position.
Even though you might have thought that pregnancy would have you feeling amazing with glowing skin, sometimes that’s not the case. If you’re feeling queasy at any time in your pregnancy, suffering from swollen joints, or if you want to get your body ready to deliver your baby, acupuncture can help. Acupuncture is safe and effective in pregnancy.
Pregnancy concerns commonly treated with acupuncture:
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- Morning sickness
- Back and pelvic pain
- High blood pressure
- Swelling and edema
- Baby position issues
- Labour prep for a more efficient birth, starting at week 36 (this is essential for all pregnant people!)
- Acupuncture inductions past 40 weeks of pregnancy
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Being a parent isn't easy!
Being a new parent comes with massive amounts of exhaustion, a fair dose of stress, and to top it off, our hormones are usually a bit unbalanced for a while after giving birth. Acupuncture can help get all of that sorted out – and the relaxing treatments give you some much-needed downtime while you enjoy your “acu-nap”.
Postpartum conditions commonly treated with acupuncture:
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- Sleep issues
- Milk supply issues
- C-Section Healing
- Fatigue
- Irregular periods
- Absent periods
- Midcycle bleeding
- PMS
- Endometriosis
- PCOS
- Uterine Fibroids
Hot flashes are a very common occurrence for women around the time of menopause. It is estimated that 50% of perimenopausal women experience hot flashes. Perimenopause refers to the time before a woman loses her fertility, this typically occurs in their early to mid 40s. At this time the level of women's estrogen levels are rising and falling at uneven rates sometimes resulting in hot flashes usually 1 to 2 years before menopause.
Women before, during and after menopause can experience hot flashes. An estimated 75-85% of postmenopausal women experience hot flashes with some frequency and can last over a period of 6 months to 15 years. The severity, frequency and duration of hot flashes is very individual.
Acupuncture can help to regulate chemicals in the body including hormones. This makes it a very natural therapy to help reduce hot flashes. Acupuncture can be used alone or in combination with other therapies. Regular acupuncture treatments help to reduce to the frequency and duration of hot flashes!
