Pregnancy Care
Pregnancy and childbirth are not just physical events, they are much more than that – they represent a major life transition. The changes that occur with pregnancy and childbirth affect your whole life: your identity, your relationships, your values, and your beliefs. So it makes sense to consider body, mind, and spirit during your pregnancy and childbirth.
How does an Integrative approach to healthy Pregnancy and Childbirth work?
An integrative approach to pregnancy and childbirth recognizes the impact of physical health, values and beliefs, relationships, emotional wellbeing, and spirituality. It also recognizes that a woman’s body is naturally designed to conceive, nourish, and give birth to a baby. It trusts the natural progression of pregnancy and labour. It includes the use of some natural modalities to prevent or treat common discomforts and complications of pregnancy, in a way that is consistent with the belief system of the patient. supply, better heart rate variability, reduction of risk factors, and even prevention of an attack.
An Integrative approach can help you:
- Have the healthiest pregnancy possible
- Have a better recovery
- Increase your chances for a natural progression of labour
- Alleviate the risks posed by medical interventions
- Breastfeeding becomes easier
What does the program include?
The program works on 4 levels:
- Physical level
A healthy diet and exercise regime build a firm foundation. Additionally, research demonstrates that many complementary therapies and practices like massage, acupuncture/acupressure, hydrotherapy, yoga etc offer comfort with a lower risk of undesirable side effects than many medications.
- Emotional level
Most women also have periods of ambivalence, anxiety or roller-coaster emotions during pregnancy. After all, having a baby represents a great change, and this can be stressful. Healthily reducing stress using modalities like – relaxation practices, meditation, pranayama – decreases your heart rate and blood pressure, helps your digestion, reduces muscular tension, and enhances your immune system and your ability to deal with pain and discomfort. All of these are especially important during pregnancy.
- Social
Our roles and relationships changes as we become responsible for a new child. Spending time with our partner becomes difficult. We might also realize the relationship with our own parents’ change, as we transit from being someone’s child to becoming a mother. Counselling here plays an important role as we might need coping strategies to help us go through this transition.
- Spiritual
Just as pregnancy and birth are times of profound physical and emotional change, they can also be opportunities for tremendous spiritual growth. The core spiritual beliefs and values can shape our expectations and experiences. In busy times, it is often difficult to set aside time to reflect. However, this becomes a good time to structure your mind using ways like meditation, journaling, prayer, walks in nature, reading etc.
Which type of Pregnancy-related issues do we manage?
- Cramps
- Urinary frequency – needing to pass urine often
- Urinary stress incontinence – leaking urine
- Heartburn and indigestion
- Blocked nose
- Varicose veins – swollen leg veins
- Constipation and haemorrhoids
- Backache
- Vaginal thrush
- Fatigue
- Headaches
- Mood Swings
Some of the pregnancy-related complications we help in
- Gestational Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Thyroid disorder
- Preeclampsia
- Iron deficiency anaemia
- Severe persistent nausea and vomiting
- Recurrent miscarriages
Duration: All the 3 trimesters and post-natal care for 45 days.
Living by the covid times and considering different locations, we also have a program which runs virtually. This consists of face-to-face calls, email, over the phone – whatever fits your busy schedule to help you succeed. During these sessions you will learn how to focus on natural pregnancy care, a diet regime, yoga, managing pregnancy-related issues using simple home remedies, lifestyle changes and be provided with supportive pregnancy-friendly recipes and food ideas based on your lifestyle and habits.
Included tools
Along with this, exercise recommendations, stress management, relaxation, meditation techniques, breathing practices and others will be offered as needed. Virtual Yoga classes will be conducted as per your suitable dates and time during the program.