See How Chiropractic Can Provide Greater Comfort & Safer Births
How can chiropractic add comfort during pregnancy?
Chiropractic care in pregnancy is an essential ingredient to your
prenatal care choices. 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.
Pre-existing unnoticed imbalances in your spine and pelvis become
overtaxed during these times. The added stresses lead to discomfort
and difficulty while performing routine, daily activities.
Chiropractic care throughout pregnancy can relieve and even prevent
the common discomforts experienced in pregnancy. Specific
adjustments eliminate these stresses in your spine, restore balance
to your pelvis and result in greater comfort and lifestyle
improvements.
Comfort for your baby, too.
As your baby develops, your uterus enlarges to accommodate the rapid
growth. So long as the pelvis is in a balanced state, the ligaments
connected to the uterus maintain an equalized, supportive suspension
for the uterus. If your pelvis is out of balance in any way, these
ligaments become torqued and twisted, causing a condition known as
intra-uterine constraint. This constraint limits the space of the
developing baby. Any compromised position for the baby throughout
pregnancy will affect his or her optimal development. Conditions
such as torticollis occur because a baby’s space was cramped inutero.
If there is intrauterine constraint as birth approaches, the baby is
prevented from getting into the best possible position for birth.
Even if the baby is in the desirable head down position, often times
intrauterine constraint affects 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. Any baby position even slightly off during birth will slow
down labor, and add pain 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.
Doctors of Chiropractic work specifically with your pelvis
throughout pregnancy restoring a state of balance and
creating an environment for an easier, safer delivery.
Preparing for a Safer Birth
Dystocia is defined as difficult labor and is something every woman
wants to avoid. In addition to the pain and
exhaustion caused by long, difficult labors, 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! However, all of these procedures used to
hasten the delivery process can be avoided if delivery goes more
smoothly to begin with.
When reviewing the obstetric texts, the reported reasons for
dystocia are caused by pelvic imbalance and its resulting effects on
your uterus and your baby’s position. Chiropractic care throughout
pregnancy restores balance to your pelvic muscles and ligaments and
therefore leads to safer and easier deliveries for you and your
baby. Additionally, the chiropractic adjustment removes interference
to the nervous system allowing your uterus to function at its
maximum potential. Published studies have indicated that
chiropractic care does in fact reduce labor time.
A chiropractor can offer specific analysis and adjustments for your
special needs in pregnancy. You and your baby’s continued safety and
comfort is a primary concern. This pregnancy, offer yourself the
best! Include the many benefits chiropractic offers in your prenatal
care choices. Give you and your baby the opportunity for a more
comfortable pregnancy and a safer, easier birth!
