Congratulations! My heart is as joyful as my patients when they get confirmed that they are pregnant.
Some of them asked me: “When I will stop acupuncture treatment?”. I would tell them any time they like. However, for certain conditions, I will recommend following groups to stay until ten weeks, which is the same as the RE transition to OB/Gyn. So in addition to maintain a close contact/supervising by RE, we can have some holistic options,
First group: frequent miscarriages.
There are many conditions which causes miscarriage. There are terms from conventional medicine. There are also terms (a different perspective) from Chinese Medicine. So if my patient request, I will give some suggestion including acupuncture/herbs/or diet to help body stay in a balance state.
Second group: Liver Qi stagnation
People can be in state of upset, anxiety or anger, Chinese Medicine think this can disturb the pregnancy. And our acupuncture or herbs can give some relief or messenger to body to relax. I have patients miscarriage just after she was upset/argue/angry with someone.
You can also research online for some Chinese Medicine books in regarding to care during pregnancy. I have a IVF patient who came back in the mid of pregnancy. She had spotting. She was treated by ER. But still spotting. She came to have acupuncture treatment, then she gave me a surprise, she asked me about a herb formula that she wants to take.
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