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Prenatal Chiropractic Care
Your Body Your Baby
If you are pregnant, one of the best things you can do is see a doctor of chiropractic. Chiropractic care provides so many things a pregnant body needs; a flexible and balanced spine, hips and pelvis; internal organs without postural stress and freedom from nerve stress- all essential for a healthy pregnancy and delivery.
Along with a better diet, exercise and avoiding drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, chiropractic care should be an essential part of a pregnant woman's healthcare regimen.
What Does a Doctor of Chiropractic Do?
A pregnant woman needs to have her body as healthy and strong as possible in order to handle the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth. Chiropractic care will help ensure all body systems function properly, especially the reproductive system which includes the uterus, ovaries and related organs and structures so essential for a healthy pregnancy. If the body structure is causing the slightest nerve interference to these systems it could adversely affect the mother and the developing fetus. Your chiropractor will examine your body for distortions known as subluxations that cause nerve stress. If Dr. Lalonde finds subluxations in your body Dr. Lalonde will correct them with a chiropractic adjustment.
Drugless Healthcare
Another great reason for chiropractic care during pregnancy is that it is drugless. Drugs, whether prescription or over-the-counter, can harm the growing fetus. There is no such thing as a safe drug. We don't know the effects of most drugs during pregnancy because pregnant woman are often not included in safety studies. Less than 10% of medications approved by the FDA since 1980 have enough information to determine their risks for birth defects. The flu shot, when given to a pregnant woman, has been linked to as much as a 7.7 times increase risk of miscarriage.
Is your Baby Breech?
Dr. Lalonde has been able to correct breech presentations in which the baby isn't positioned properly for birth.
Can Chiropractic Help?
Chiropractic care may help maintain pregnancy, control vomiting, deliver full-term infants with ease and produce healthier infants. Chiropractic has demonstrated success with back pain, premature contractions and back labor.
One case of a woman experiencing premature contractions (32 weeks) with severe endometriosis was told she would never carry a baby to term. At the hospital she received chiropractic care and the contractions stopped. After leaving the hospital, she continued care and had a normal labor and delivery at 40 weeks gestation.
Low Back Pain
It has been observed that 57% to 69% of pregnant woman suffer from low back pain, In one study, 17 pregnant woman under chiropractic care reported an original pain score of 5.9. After care, they reported a pain score of 1.5.
More Benefits
Practitioners have observed: Manipulation can be of great value in normalizing the body functions of woman with problems of pregnancy such as toxemia. Manipulative therapy ... shortens labor by 50-60% an lessens medication requirement by at least 50%. Postpartum depression is a rarity in patients receiving manipulative therapy.
The Webster Technique for Breech Babies
Dr. Lalonde has been able to correct breech presentations in which the baby isn't positioned properly for birth. Developed by the late Larry Webster, DC, The Webster Technique has been very successful in correcting breech presentations.
A 28 year old female was 34 weeks pregnant with a breech presentation. Evaluation of the patient on the subsequent visit showed normal (head) presentation. The patients nurse-midwife confirmed the conversion from a breech position to a cephalic position.
