Chiropractic Care for Newborns
The decision to start a family—or to expand your existing one—is probably the most life-changing decision you’ll ever make—and for many, it’s a highly demanding process. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a simple, ongoing treatment to make your journey to motherhood easier? In this article, we’ll explain how chiropractic care can help you during every stage of the process:
• conception (fertility)
• pregnancy
• childbirth
• postpartum (mother and baby)
Can chiropractic care really offer benefits for fertility?
The world is flooded with information about “miracle cures” for the fertility, but the benefits of chiropractic care in terms of enhancing the female fertility and overcoming infertility are by no means dull: there are clinical testimonials of women who have overcome infertility and become pregnant. Invasive hormone therapy can cause serious side effects and trauma—chiropractic care offers a A natural treatment that optimizes your nervous system function. Marta's Testimony
And how does that help me get pregnant?
Well, your nervous system functions are essential to your well-being, and your spine plays the role of a transmitter of impulses between the brain and the organs. For one of several reasons—such as stress, physical wear and tear, or awkward movements—subluxations (misalignments) occur in the spine, thereby disrupting nerve function. Chiropractic care restores this function, optimizes your mobility, and enhances your sense of well-being. What’s more, it helps to improve the flow of hormones essential for reproduction.
What are the benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy?
It is best to answer this question by referring to the underlying philosophy of chiropractic— innate intelligence. This kind of intelligence cannot be taught: rather, it is congenital and is responsible for producing what our body needs to function properly and to provide it with the properties necessary for healing. When a subluxation occurs, a chiropractor Adjust your spine so that innate intelligence can come into play – restores normal nerve function and eliminates illness and pain. Naturally, this leads to significantly improved well-being for the mother and a lower risk of postpartum trauma.
What are the symptoms that chiropractic care can cure or at least alleviate?
Maybe you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that there will be a few challenging moments over the next 9 months—like hormonal ups and downs, frequent bouts of nausea, lower back pain, swollen ankles, and high blood pressure—right? Don’t give up. Chiropractic care can help relieve the common symptoms during pregnancy.
How is that possible?
It all comes down to subluxations – or misalignments – and correcting them. These are common among pregnant women and cause tension in the brain, nervous tension, and imbalances in the body, which tries to compensate by adjusting its posture, thereby putting more pressure on your bones and muscles. Chiropractic care will correct these misalignments and optimize nerve and skeletal function—as a result, it will provide you with many health benefits, such as: improved pelvic and organ function by eliminating the low back pain and a more comfortable birthing position.
Can chiropractic care speed up and make childbirth easier?
Yes, and you really should start considering chiropractic care if your priority is a less stressful and easier delivery. The possibility of a natural childbirth will improve with chiropractic treatment—there are quite a few published cases on the reduction of the duration of labor ranging from several days to as little as a few hours (or less) through chiropractic care and treatment of dystocia (abnormal labor).
How does chiropractic care provide these benefits?
Think about innate intelligence – the way your brain communicates with your body to control nervous system and organ functions. Spinal misalignments that occur during pregnancy seriously affect your balance, posture, back, pelvis, legs, and ankles.
Chiropractic Care It eliminates this structural damage and allows both your innate intelligence and your baby’s to function, thereby optimizing nervous system and brain functions as well as pelvic and spinal movements. In short, your baby will be in an optimal birthing position and will experience healthier development of the nervous and neuromuscular systems.
Keep in mind that during pregnancy, the positions a mother assumes can cause—or at least increase the risk of—obstetric trauma. The delivery of the baby during childbirth is equivalent to a force of 20 kg – 50 kg in the case of a cesarean section, which is why maintaining proper spinal alignment is essential to prevent these injuries and ensure a smooth delivery.
Are there other postnatal benefits for me and my baby that chiropractic care can provide?
First of all, the benefits achieved through chiropractic care During pregnancy, these measures will help limit the risks of postnatal trauma and illness. However, birth-related trauma can occur throughout a person’s life—although most cases occur during the birth itself.
A chiropractor can detect these subluxations (spinal misalignments, brainstem injuries, etc.) shortly after the baby is born, thereby correcting or adjusting the spinal alignment so that innate intelligence can take effect – thereby optimizing communication between the nerves, the brain, and the organs.
In addition, chiropractic care is essential for conditions such as scoliosis—a misalignment at the base of the skull that causes curvature of the spine. Scoliosis This results in asymmetrical development of the spine in girls and of the mind in boys (hyperactivity). A chiropractor will correct these misalignments (subluxations), thereby restoring the spinal structure and the body’s vitality.
In summary:
Chiropractic care offers the following health benefits:
- increases fertility and helps overcome infertility
– relieves or treats common symptoms during pregnancy
- ensures a smoother delivery and increase the chances of a natural birth
– prevents and eliminates trauma associated with childbirth (birth)
Sources and references:
CBS New York – Chiropractic and Fertility Research
International Chiropractic Pediatric Association – Overcoming Infertility
Birth Without Fear – Chiropractic Benefits During Pregnancy
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain During Pregnancy
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Chiropractic Care for Natural Childbirth
International Chiropractic Pediatric Association – Reducing Labor Times
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Chiropractic Care and Scoliosis
