Pregnancy & Post-Partum Care

For thousands of years, Traditional Eastern Medicine has been treating common discomforts during pregnancy.  However, except for the back pain due to pregnancy, we refrain from giving pain related treatments while pregnant.  Please consult with your practitioner for more details.

Pregnancy can cause eczema, which is not uncommon, but its treatment should be considered with caution.  For example, a treatment may take place as usual for hidrosis or eczema of the extremities, but for breast eczema or other skin diseases that affect the trunk region, options will be limited depending on how far along you are with your pregnancy.

Surely the newborn will require most of your attention, but It is important to tend to your own health conditions as well, considering your body’s precarious state after giving birth.  Loose joint ligaments increase chances of injury, hormonal imbalance can cause mood disorders, breastfeeding and taking care of the baby, and recovering from the taxing process of childbirth or C-section, are all extremely demanding for the body and the mind.  Therefore, in some cultures, such as in East Asia, the mother is kept from physical activity for the first 3 weeks after birth.

And our Healthy Mother Program is designed with new mothers’ wellbeing in mind.  By providing acupuncture, herbal medication, AMA therapy, and postpartum acupressure therapy, we aim to help new mothers recover from the rewarding but intense experience of giving birth, and provide them with the best possible care and support they deserve.

After giving birth, you may experience mood swings.  Being happy one second, and enraged or depressed the next.  And you may also lose your focus, appetite, and sleep.  Such symptoms are natural part of early motherhood and usually they go away 10 days after the delivery.  However, some women have a far more intense experience and the symptoms could last for more than 10 days.

When women experience moderate to severe depression after giving birth, we call this postpartum depression (PPD). And PPD can occur right after delivery, or even a year later. But most of the time, the symptoms can be observed within the first 4 weeks after the delivery.

Traditional Eastern Medicine diagnoses the root cause of PDD as blood deficiency due to excessive blood loss during childbirth, and it tends to be more severe for women with pre-existing blood deficiency.  And this blood deficiency is likely to cause blood stasis in other organs, such as liver and kidney, and eventually develop into a yin deficiency.