Pregnancy requires your body to work overtime to meet the needs of the growing life within you.

Acupuncture is well suited to help you meet the everyday challenges of digestion, constipation and colds.

It can also be helpful with pregnancy related nausea, respiratory and urinary infections, pelvic, low back, upper back and neck pain, leg cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome.

In the weeks before childbirth, acupuncture can be used to prepare your body for labour. Studies have shown that women who receive acupuncture weekly in the last 4 weeks of pregnancy have more comfortable labours with fewer medical interventions.

Additionally, when needed, acupuncture along with moxibustion can be used to turn the baby (with posterior or breech presentations) and induce labour.

After the baby is born, new mothers are often challenged. In this important time the mother is supported, nurtured and sheltered to help both the new mum and baby develop and bond.

Acupuncture can help you with lactation problems, postnatal depression, and the many physical issues that visit the new mother’s body.