Acupuncture for Pre-birth and Labour

Acupressure for Pain Relief in Labour

Acupressure during labour gives pain relief. It stimulates efficient contractions, and reduces stress and anxiety.

We offer acupressure sessions to demonstrate and treat acupressure points. These sessions are for you, and your partner or birth partner.

You will receive information on particular points for pain relief during labour, and stimulate efficient contractions.

These points can be used before and during labour to great effect.

It is often done as part of a series of Pre Birth Acupuncture treatment.

Inducing Labour

We use acupuncture to promote labour if your baby is overdue. Acupuncture assists labour by softening the cervix, and stimulating strong regular contractions. It also strengthens your energy to assist the birth of your baby.

If a medical induction is going ahead, acupuncture makes the process smoother. Intervention is often minimal.

A Norwegian study shows women having acupuncture induction have:

• Shorter labour
• Less Oxytocin
• Less instrumental deliveries

Acupuncture administered after spontaneous rupture of membranes at term significantly reduces the length of birth and use of oxytocin. A randomised trial.  LC Gaudernack, S Forbord, E Hole – Acta Obstetricia et al 2006 – Taylor & Francis

‘Feedback from midwives is that women treated with acupuncture have a more efficient labour following administrations of prostaglandin than women who haven’t had prior acupuncture’ (Debra Betts )

‘Acupuncture in pregnancy and childbirth reduces intervention rates such as epidurals, C sections, syntocinon’ (Debra Betts)