Acupuncture
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Topic: Acupuncture
Posted By: _SMS_
Subject: Acupuncture
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 3:47pm
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Who has had acupuncture during pregnancy and for what reason??
I had it when dd was breech to try turn her. -------------  
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 5:17pm
| Me for morning sickness - I was a sceptic, now a total convert |
Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 5:35pm
I had a bad birth with dd she was also posterior. Im wondering if having acupuncture would help things this time  -------------
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Posted By: Bambino
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 6:30pm
| I have had a couple of sessions to get an anterior baby to be posterior... it seems to have worked as baby is now in the ready position (if only he would engage!)! I would definitely do it again. Now I am overdue and i am having induction acupuncture along with stretching and sweeping... feels good to be doing something rather than nothing and the acupuncture is nice relaxation time. |
Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 6:43pm
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You mean posterior to anterior? I have never had acupuncture, I'm a bit of a wuss. Also doesn't it cost quite a bit? You might find me a bit ignorant about this :D ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 7:25pm
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Im pretty sure our local hospital does free maternity acupuncture but there is a waiting list unless its important -------------
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 25 January 2011 at 8:30pm
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My MW would do accupuncture for $10 a session. But the pregnancy specialist I saw charged me between $40-60 depending on what she did.
Swimming is great for spinning bubs. I had a posterior birth with daniel. Alex was posterior and breech the lil monkey but swimming sorted him out.. and all my pains |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 11:17am
| Has anyone had accupuncture for an overdue and had success? Because if someone tells me the baby will shoot right out, i will be booking me an appointment straight off. Oh, and are there any standard questions to ask when making an appointment? (i guess aside from do you have experience with pregos/whats your success rate?) |
Posted By: LG
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 12:29pm
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I had it to help me get pregnant, to help with M/S, and to induce me when i was over.
Bowie, i had it once on my due date to help my body prepare for labour than once when i was 10 days over. He told me i would go into labour within 24hrs and it was just over that. I would ask if the practioner has worked with preg people before and especially if they do it to induce labour. And maybe if they give any naturopathic stuff afterwards? (I got given some drops as well). Good luck hun, being overdue SUCKS! -------------  Angel Baby Aug '12, Feb '13 |
Posted By: jano1
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 7:12pm
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I had acupuncture from 36-42 weeks. Unfortunately it didn't bring labour on but not through the fault of acupuncture (DD was stuck and head twisted).
I definitely think it helped my recovery, I was up and walking within a few hours of an emergency c-section and transferred from the hospital within 24 hours and came right pretty quickly. |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 26 January 2011 at 7:13pm
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I had it this time for morning sickness, it didn't get rid of it but I think it helped a lot, as in I stopped actually spewing up. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Bambino
Date Posted: 27 January 2011 at 4:57am
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Kalimirella - doh - yes, that is what I mean.
Bowie ... had acupuncture for induction yesterday and I really do think it helped bring on some cramping ... BUT I am still in one piece a day later so who knows!? |
Posted By: Roses are Red
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 10:36pm
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I had it when I was pregnant with Riley at 38.5 weeks to help prepare my body for labour, I got the start of my show that night and two days later I went into the early stages of labour and he was born the next morning. They also put in a couple of needles for heartburn and sciatica and both disappeared straight away.
I was a sceptic before this but am a convert now! Oh and it cost $50 but was so worth it and no kalimirella the needles dont hurt, in fact I barely felt most of them apart from when they wriggle them and even that was nothing. ------------- 
 Angel March 2011
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Posted By: tiptoes
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 12:19pm
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I had it in the first trimester because I'd been having it to TTC and thought it might help keep things healthy and help with MS etc. Then I had it again in the last month in the hope it would help with a quick easy labour and bring it on earlier. No such luck - though I went into labour naturally and wasn't induced (10 days over) so who knows how different it would have been. Not going to do it this time around though so will be interesting to see if there's a difference. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: RuthyH
Date Posted: 09 February 2011 at 8:39am
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Hi , I am having accupuncture at the moment cos I'm 7 weeks preg with number 2 and have been having some trouble sleeping. It definitely helps and has given a bit of alleviation of the morning sickness too, though it's still very much there! I had reflexology to try and shift my son who was 18 days late. It didn't work in my case (he was determined to stay put) but does work in many cases and may be more appealing to those who don't like needles. However if baby and Mum are healthy I'm a believer in not worrying too much about due dates, let them come in their own sweet time. . ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 09 February 2011 at 5:35pm
My MW just gave me the number to ring for the free Hutt Hospital accupuncture for my scaiatica (didn't even know that's what I had, just told her sometimes my tailbone is so sore I can hardly move). So will let you know how that goes. I'm not looking forward to the needles lol, but everyone I've spoken to said it fixed them so will just have to put on my big girl pants 
If you book in now you should be able to get an appt for when you're due hopefully  ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 09 February 2011 at 6:36pm
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Rach can you pm me the number please. Good idea i might book for june. You can refer yourself i think. -------------
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