Pregnancy Yoga
Care for Mom and Baby
Research suggests that prenatal yoga is safe and can have many benefits for pregnant women and their babies.
Prenatal yoga can:
Improve sleep
Reduce stress and anxiety
Increase the strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth
Decrease lower back pain, nausea, headaches and shortness of breath
Prenatal yoga can also help you meet and bond with other pregnant women and prepare for the stress and excitment of being a new parent.
Acupuncture
Here for You throughout Your Pregnancy
Acupuncture is completely safe during pregnancy, and is proven to be extremely beneficial and effective.
In the first trimester it helps to maintain a pregnancy, nourish the body and alleviates early symptoms such as fatigue, nausea and heartburn.
Later, the aches, pains, constipation and swelling that go along with pregnancy can be greatly alleviated by acupuncture treatment as well.
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Pre Birth treatments mean a series of acupuncture treatments in the final weeks of pregnancy to help prepare the mother for childbirth. This is usually started once a gestation age of 36-37 weeks has been reached
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Massage
Listening to Your Needs, Offering Our Knowledge
studies indicate that massage therapy performed during pregnancy can reduce your anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, reduce swelling and edema, and improve your birth outcomes and your newborn’s health.
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Reflexology
Listening to Your Needs, Offering Our Knowledge
Many women are now choosing to have reflexology throughout their pregnancy and postnatally as it can offer many benefits such as aiding relaxation, reducing anxiety, generally de-stressing and improving sleep.
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However you view reflexology there is no doubt that it provides a period of time where the mother to be has one to one attention, relaxation and supportive touch in an empathic and non-judgemental listening environment which all help build resilience and allow patients to gain both mental and physical strength.
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They are common conditions that can arise during pregnancy such as constipation, low back pain, heartburn, anxiety, depression etc or to help prepare the body for birthing.
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