Birth Preparation
Do you ever feel like you are at the mercy of your body, your baby or your healthcare provider? Would you like to do everything you can to have the birth you desire?
Acupuncture provides physical and emotional support leading up to labor and birth. It can increase your sense of satisfaction with the birthing experience and enhancing your overall well-being after birth.
A bonus session with you and your birth partner gives you practical acupressure tools to help you through labor and birth. This helps partners feel really empowered in a situation that is often uncharted territory for them.
4 weekly acupuncture sessions start in Week 37 and will:
- help to ensure your baby is in a good position for birth, not only head down but also facing the right way
- help to move your baby down and engage in your pelvis
- start to ripen the cervix which shortens labor
- help get things moving so you are less likely to labor after your due date and decreases the need for medical induction
- treat anxiety and help create a calm mental attitude for a an optimal birth experience.
$299 for a package of 4 sessions includes:
Weekly acupuncture with an acupuncturist who specializes in pregnancy, labor and birth
Acupressure-for-birth training for you and your birth partner
Acupressure hand-out to practice and refer to during your labor
If you have not gone into labor by week 41, we offer an acupuncture induction treatment at no charge
Acupuncture Induction
Acupuncture is used up to two to three days before a medical induction is planned. Acupuncture treatment followed by self-administered acupressure is the most practical and effective method of inducing labor. Treatment may be daily until spontaneous labor commences.
Even if labor does not commence spontaneously, women treated with acupuncture often have a more efficient labor with medical induction than women who had no acupuncture treatment and little further intervention is often required during labor.
Call 647-428-7200 to book a Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine or Meditation Guidance appointment – or to discuss which treatments might be best for you, including the care of a DONA certified birth doula.
