Acupuncture in Pregnancy
Acupuncture can be a great tool to help navigate the health issues and aches and pains that can arise during pregnancy.
The acupuncture treatment you receive changes throughout your pregnancy journey.
First Trimester
During the first 12 weeks, acupuncture focuses on creating a stable foundation for your pregnancy. Treatments aim to support your body as it nourishes your growing baby and adapts to rapid changes in your body. This stage of care also helps ease early pregnancy symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, morning sickness, and general discomfort.
If you’re experiencing exhaustion, dizziness, aches, nausea, vomiting, this type of support may be especially helpful. Sessions are typically twice weekly at first, then weekly until the end of the first trimester.
Second Trimester
From weeks 13 to 27, acupuncture focuses on supporting and helping maintain a healthy, balanced pregnancy. Treatments aim to ease common discomforts such as lower back or pelvic pain, headaches, digestive issues like heartburn or reflux, and emotional symptoms including anxiety or low mood.
If you’re dealing with persistent or painful symptoms, weekly sessions may be recommended. Otherwise, many expectant mothers benefit from monthly check‑ins during this stage.
Third Trimester
In the final weeks of pregnancy, acupuncture helps prepare your body for labour and ease late‑pregnancy discomforts. Most women come monthly until around week 30–32, then shift to weekly sessions to allow enough time for effective labour preparation.
From week 36, treatments focus on supporting and encouraging the body’s natural readiness for birth.
Post-Birth
The weeks after birth — often called the “fourth trimester” — are a crucial time for recovery. Acupuncture can offer gentle support during this period, helping with both physical healing and emotional wellbeing. Treatments can begin whenever you feel ready and are usually scheduled weekly or fortnightly throughout the first month.
For Acupuncture in pregnancy: book in an Acupuncture appointment with Dr Elena.
Your Practitioner
Dr Elena Bacash, Chiropractor & Acupuncturist
After 3 years of study, Dr Elena Bacash, Chiropractor has completed her Masters of Acupuncture. She is currently offering Acupuncture alongside Chiropractic and can offer sessions with both modalities or separately. Her areas of interest include:
- Musculoskeletal issues - frozen shoulder, knee pain, osteoarthritis, lower back pain, disc lesions, soft tissue injuries, wrist and ankle pain, hip pain.
- Pregnancy - foetal positioning is important to a comfortable pregnancy and birth. Dr Elena is trained in Webster Chiropractic technique which can help with optimal positioning and alignment of the pelvis to alleviate pain and discomfort during pregnancy as well as acupuncture techniques to support birth, position and labour
- Headaches, migraines, vertigo and dizziness, tinnitus, epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia, tremors.
- Acupuncture for cancer support and survivorship
- Mental health support for anxiety and depression
- Cosmetic / Facial Acupuncture which includes a constitutional assessment with tongue and pulse diagnosis as well as facial acupuncture which helps improve collagen production from needling lines, to helping firm up sagging in the face by targeting the muscles of the face by stimulating them with needles and improving that 'tired' look that we can all have with bags under the eyes. In Chinese Medicine the different parts of the face relate to different organs and meridians and so we gain an insight into what is going on internally.
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