Acupuncture and Pregnancy

Using acupuncture for a healthy pregnancy is a great way to stimulate the energetic connection between a mother and her child, and can produce physical health benefits within both the mother and child as well.

It is ironic that in order to create something beautiful (a newborn child), a will-be mother must go through so much suffering during the process. Just stopping to think about this revelation can be mind-numbing.

Must a woman really go through so much pain and suffering to have a baby?

And not only does a woman have to deal with so many physical symptoms, including cramps, fatigue, headaches, swollen or tender breasts, frequent urination due to the baby's pressure on the bladder, and of course - morning sickness, but the emotional and hormonal changes happening within her are substantial.

An expecting mother can often hardly anticipate the coming emotional upsets and afflictions that beset her body. Dealing with the physical symptoms of pregnancy could be enough to keep a woman from performing at work or as an active housewife or already-mother, but 'stable' isn't exactly the word most pregnant women would use to describe their situations.

She must also deal with the prevalence of rollercoaster emotions, moods swings, strange food cravings or food and smell aversions that come out of nowhere. She also experiences hormonal changes that directly affect her mood and sexuality towards her husband or lover - often causing stress within the close relationship and burdening the man, requiring him to become not only more supportive of his love, but become emotionally stronger himself as well.

At first glance, an outside observer of the human condition might wonder: "Why the heck would anyone on the planet earth want to get pregnant?"

Thankfully, a woman's intuition and a man's ambition are able to surmount this 'hump' or great burden of pregnancy, and receive the joys of not just parenting, but of creating new life themselves. Acupuncture for a healthy pregnancy can be a leading helper in dealing with the negative burdens that join a man and woman when they decide to get pregnant.

Acupuncture for Pregnancy

Even with the great desire to create a beautiful new life and raise children, a couple that is considering having their first child - or their second or third - may be somewhat discouraged at the thought of all of the symptoms described above.

But thankfully, with the skill of an experienced acupuncturist, many of these physical, emotional, and hormonal ups and downs can be lessened or even avoided.

Acupuncture for a healthy pregnancy not only enhances the quality of health within the child, but within the mother as well.

Since acupuncture can treat such a wide variety of symptoms and conditions because it treats the source of the problem - the energy imbalances within us, acupuncture can help relieve some or all of the following symptoms of pregnancy:

• Psychological issues - even ones that you may have had before you entered pregnancy.
• Emotional issues - lessen or eliminate the emotional rollercoaster that often accompanies pregnancy.
• Hormonal issues - keep your body fully healthy and balanced. Hormonal balance brings with it lessed emotional issues, and heightened physical condition.
• Healthy for the baby - keep your baby healthy by keeping yourself healthy, and by subtly influencing his or her inner energy meridian system as well.
• Keep your lover in love - pregnancy can be a tough time for the woman and the man. By keeping yourself as emotionally healthy as possible, you can avoid petty fights and drama that often times turn off the attention and turn on the frustration of the man you're in love with.

It's not just acupuncture that can provide the amazing benefits above. There are several types of energy healing methods that can all be found in one form or another in most countries.

And while acupuncture for a healthy pregnancy has the great potential to do just that - keep your baby and you both healthy - you can always consider other energy medicine alternatives.

In the future, some of those alternatives may be featured on All-About-Acupuncture, but for now it's merely that: All About Acupuncture.