Hi everybody, Dr. Jodi Kinney here, your chiropractor for pregnancy health in Belmar, NJ.
This is my patient, Anne. Anne is 21 weeks pregnant, and she has been getting adjusted since way before she was pregnant, and then with her other son, over there, her entire pregnancy.
So, we always treat pregnant people because it’s just such a great way to A: bring a healthy baby into the world and also to maintain health throughout a pregnancy for a great labor and delivery.
So, these tables are great in that they drop out. So, my pregnant mamas are able to get adjusted with the table dropped out so that the belly can wait right in there. So, go ahead on your belly for me, Anne. So, we always want to maintain the health of the pelvis, make sure that there’s no subluxations or misalignments in the pelvis. She is a little off on the left side. So, the table helps… flips and drops; leveling this pelvic exactly where we want it to be.
Then, I’m going to add just the middle part of her back because as the belly expands, we get a bigger lordosis, and that lower back tends to put a lot of stress on us. Low back, spine, are you feeling that this way? Yes. Blow all the air out. Good one. Breathe in. Great. And then our tables do what’s called flection distraction. So, opening up the spine, helping to take pressure off the nerves. This stretches out all the middle and lower part of the back.
All safe and all easy ways to get adjusted; safe for the baby; safe for mom.
Chiropractic for Pregnancy in Belmar, NJ
And all drugless ways to manage things, like sciatica and low back pain and…and, you know, middle back pain, pregnancy headaches – all naturally with chiropractics.
So, we see lots of sciatica and low-back patients, especially as the pregnancy progresses and that belly gets a little bit bigger.
Good. Let’s check the leg length. Perfectly even; love that. Okay. So, Anne, you’re going to lay and face this way on your side. Bend the leg up.
So, I’m going to adjust her lower spine this way. Good. One more this way. Nice. Right on your back, please, Anne. Not easy. I know, I know; you’re doing great.
Anne has a lot of neck tension; she’s been getting headaches. She sits at a computer a lot of the day, so she always has a lot of tension up in the neck and upper back, and into the head. Good. One more. Excellent.
Chiropractic Stretching for Pregnancy in Belmar, NJ
Also during pregnancy around 21, 22, 23 weeks is when your body… the pregnant mom’s body starts to release more hormones.
One of them being what’s called relaxant. “Relaxant” is a hormone that relaxes all the ligaments and the tendons around the pelvis, but to expand for… to make room for the pelvis growing and the baby growing, but it relaxes all the ligaments and tendons in the body.
So, everything has a tendency to shift out of alignment during the latter half of the pregnancy, which is why it’s so important to be adjusted.
We always stretch. Sometimes these muscles tighten up, so we want to stretch, especially about the hamstrings, the lower back, the pelvic muscles. And that’s it. Nice and easy way to keep our pregnant mamas happy throughout this whole 40 weeks of gestation.
So, if you know of someone or if you are pregnant and you need to be getting adjusted to keep your body nice and healthy; and keep this body, this baby… growing baby nice and healthy, too.
Thank you so much for…thanks for tuning in.
We’ll see you soon.
