Adjusting women through pregnancy is probably the most rewarding aspects of chiropractic care. Chiropractic treatment leads to a healthier pregnancy means a simpler labor and delivery, along with a better transition for the baby into this life.

Chiropractic through pregnancy is not only safe, it is vital. We could go through the implications of subluxation from the biomechanical, hormonal and neurological standpoint. It’s easy for everyone to find out postural changes, through pregnancy, lead to changes in the center of gravity, the body weight of the fetus causes increased pressure about the spine and pelvis, and in the end of the pregnancy, changes have emerged in gait pattern, the waddle of pregnancy. What we can’t see, are the millions of different hormonal changes and chemical reactions occurring in mom as well as the developing baby. These changes are controlled and coordinated with the nervous system. This is where chiropractic care comes in. It is not just for back pain in pregnancy.

Adjustments result in an easier pregnancy, significantly decreased average labor time, and assists new mothers in returning to per-pregnancy health. In one study, women receiving Chiropractic care through their first pregnancy had 24% shorter labor times than the group failing to get enough Chiropractic, and on subsequent pregnancies subjects reported 39% shorter labor times. Thirty-nine percent-this is a massive difference. Moreover, 84% of women report relief of low back and hip pain when receiving care from a chiropractor. Because the sacroiliac joints and pelvis function better, there exists significant less probability of back labor when receiving chiropractic care through out the pregnancy.

Body position during delivery can also be critical. Any late second stage labor position that denies postural sacral rotation denies mom and the baby critical pelvic outlet diameter and jams the top off the sacrum as much as 4cm into the pelvic outlet. Put simply, the typical delivery position used in hospitals with the mother on her back in the stir-ups reduces the size of the pelvic opening, which closes off the vital space essential for the infant to move through the pelvic outlet.

This delivery position is a common reason why numerous births are traumatic, labor is stalled, mother becomes fatigued and in pain, so making use of epidurals, forceps, episiotomy, vacuum extraction and cesarean increases. This is why squatting should be the preferred position. In this position gravity helps and the pelvic outlet can open to a greater degree. Squatting during delivery leads to decreased utilization of forceps plus a shorter second stage labor as opposed to semi-recumbent position.

Greater complications during delivery lead to greater neurological damage to the newborn as a result of injury to the head and neck. Even with vaginal births, 4.6% of full term neonates suffer unexplained brain bleeds and 10% suffer neonatal encephalopathy. Because so many children have been injured with forceps deliveries, (facial nerve palsy, tearing of cervical spine musculature) vacuum extraction originated. Suction cups they fit around the newborn’s head, and the baby generally is sucked from the mother.

When utilized, 120 pounds of pressure goes through the baby’s head and neck. Decapitation occurs at 140 pounds of pressure, to offer you a perception of the forces involved. Remember when you were just a little girl or boy and there was a new baby present, our parents always said, “Watch his head-you don’t want to hurt him.” We’re careful for the reason that fontanel’s with the skull are very pliable, and also the neck and brain are fragile and unprotected. This is why numerous babies sustain injuries with their heads and neck during vacuum extraction. The force of vacuum extraction is far greater than a newborn’s little bodies can tolerate.

Adjustments to newborns contain only ounces of force, on average 6-12 onces. This is the same weight approximately as a bottle of food. The force of the adjustment is directed into the spine to facilitate health by removing subluxations. We adjust babies just after birth, to correct subluxations brought on by in-utero constraint as well as the journey down with the birth canal and delivery.

It is also important to note that chiropractic is not a cure it only frees up the optimal potential of the nervous system and allowed us to express the best us we can be. It isn’t relief from ear infections, for colic, for allergies, for asthma, for frequent colds, nor for ADD/ADHD, but it can help the body deal with and heal all of these conditions.

Whenever we listen to mothers’ stories with their pregnancy, labor and delivery, the children that suffer the best from these complaints, are the ones who’ve had the best challenge with their births. Even relatively easy deliveries may result in subluxations. That is why every child should be checked, before difficulties with their health ever develop. That’s maintenance within the truest sense-preventing subluxations in mothers to stop subluxations in their babies during childbirth. For this reason all women needs Chiropractic through pregnancy so that the arrival of the baby is really a miraculus experience.