Prenatal & postnatal care
Pregnancy & acupuncture
"This is my passion and joy and what I most enjoy about my acupuncture practice. It's being creative in producing placid and contented babies. I have one of my own to prove it."
Would you like a contented and healthy baby?
We specialise in helping mother and baby, prenatal and postnatal. We find that mothers who have acupuncture from 36 weeks onwards have a better chance of giving birth to a placid, healthy and contented baby.
Through careful placement of the acupuncture needles and with gentle, soothing Chinese Tui Na massage, we may help to enhance the wellbeing of the baby. Acupuncture also offers a safe, effective and drug-free treatment option after pregnancy for post-natal depression.
Benefits for the baby
- Promotes the wellbeing of the baby while still in the womb
- Less stress for the baby on arrival
- Reduced allergies before baby is born
- Stronger immune system and constitution
- Reduced occurrence of colic
Benefits for the new mother
- Helps back and shoulder aches
- Reduce blood pressure and toxaemia
- Breech babies can be turned
- Posterior babies can be turned
- Reduced labour pains
- Induction treatment if the baby is overdue
- Increase breast milk
- Helps anaemia
- Helps constipation, haemorrhoids and varicose veins
- Faster recovery after birth
- Helps tiredness and increases energy levels
- Helps prevent post-natal depression by balancing the energies
What the treatments look like
You'll need weekly acupuncture treatments from 36 weeks onwards, and perhaps for 4 weeks after the birth. Each session runs about 45 to 60 minutes.
In the first trimester, morning sickness, hormonal changes, threatened miscarriages and back aches are the most common ailments. Acupuncture, massage, some homeopathic remedies and Chinese herbs may help to ease these.
The last weeks of pregnancy are the most important time to prepare the mother for the birth. This is when we have a chance to reduce allergies that may be passed on from both parents, such as asthma, food allergies, skin problems and digestive issues. The whole idea is to treat the mother and make her as healthy as possible.
Having acupuncture in the last 4 weeks may help relax the baby and the pelvic region, and turn the baby if it's in a breech or posterior position. Labour pains may be reduced, and have been known to come down to about 4 hours.
For many generations the Chinese have believed that in the 2 weeks before birth the body needs balancing, so there's a special diet a pregnant mother follows. Three weeks after the birth there's another diet, the opposite of the pre-birth one, to help restore what's lost during birth.
The Wong Doo Health Clinic makes no guarantees, as each person differs with their progress. We have a family history of acupuncture in Auckland going back over 75 years.
Acupuncture may also help
- Morning sickness
- Neck, hip and back aches
- Helps prevent miscarriages
- Promotes optimum health and wellbeing of the fetus
Postnatal care
- Reduce stretch marks
- Reduce the wind left in the abdomen after birth
- A special diet for the first 3 weeks after delivery
- Scar tissue repair
- Insufficient lactation / increase breast milk
- Depression
- Urinary incontinence
Testimonial
"She's placid, very sensitive, can't tell her off, a great talker, confident, gregarious and full of personality, lots of energy."
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Call us to talk through your health concerns and treatment options, discreetly and with absolutely no obligation.