Acupuncture for new mums

Getting back to full strength

Acupuncture for new mums can be a big help, and this is certainly a time when you could do with some help!  Our culture tends to expect everyone to take a few weeks off, have a baby, and carry on pretty as if not much has really happened.  In reality your body has been through an enormously taxing process, of growing another human being from scratch, going through the huge labour of childbirth, and then generating the milk to sustain your new baby's whole nutritional needs. 

The challenges and sleep-deprivation of looking after a tiny baby can also mean that looking after yourself goes out of the window, just when you and your body could do with some help, support, nourishment, and tender loving care.  Happily acupuncture for new mums may be able to help with:

Encouraging your post-partum healing

Reducing pain and inflammation from an episiotomy
Managing your after-pains
Building your energy (at a time when you really need it!)
Promoting lactation

Reducing the pain and inflammation of mastitis

Improving post-natal depression or anxiety.  This is a tough time you're going through, most new mums find it hard going in some ways, so if you're feeling low or anxious in yourself, you definitely shouldn't be beating yourself up about it, and help is available.

Supporting your secondary fertility, see Jessica's page on fertility

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Each of us responds differently to acupuncture.  Do get in touch to discuss whether acupuncture is likely to be right for you, or to make an appointment.

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