Pregnancy & Infants
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Pregnancy Trimesters and Infants
Chiropractic care offers safe, natural support for both mom and baby as the body undergoes the many changes of pregnancy. Each trimester brings its own set of physical challenges, and chiropractic care helps address them by promoting comfort, balance, and overall well-being. From easing discomfort to supporting healthy development, regular care helps mom and baby feel their best throughout every stage of pregnancy.
First Trimester
Supporting a Healthy Start to Pregnancy
The first trimester can be both exciting and challenging as your body rapidly changes to support your growing baby. Chiropractic care during this stage offers natural, gentle support to help you feel your best.
Many pregnant women experience morning sickness and nausea, which can be aggravated by misalignments in the spine that affect nervous system function. Chiropractic adjustments help restore balance to the nervous system, which may reduce nausea and improve overall comfort.
As your body begins to shift, musculoskeletal discomfort—including back pain, hip tension, and joint stiffness—can start early. Adjustments helps relieve these issues by improving alignment, reducing pressure on joints, and easing muscle tension.
By supporting optimal nervous system function, chiropractic care helps your body better adapt to pregnancy’s demands and can even enhance your body’s ability to regulate hormones and digestion.
Perhaps most importantly, regular care during the first trimester can help prevent future complications by promoting proper pelvic alignment and posture, setting the stage for a more comfortable pregnancy, smoother labor, and safer delivery.
Chiropractic care is a safe, drug-free way to support your body and your baby—starting from day one.
Second Trimester
Staying Comfortable as Baby Grows
As your baby grows and your center of gravity shifts, the second trimester often brings new physical challenges. Chiropractic care during this time focuses on keeping you comfortable and your body in balance.
Many women begin to experience back, hip, and pelvic pain as the uterus expands and ligaments stretch. Gentle chiropractic adjustments help relieve pressure on joints and nerves, easing discomfort and supporting better mobility.
With the growing weight of your baby, maintaining healthy posture and balance becomes more difficult. Chiropractic care helps align the spine and pelvis, reducing strain on your muscles and helping you move more comfortably and confidently.
In addition to physical support, adjustments can also aid in improving digestion and reducing heartburn by relieving tension on nerves that influence digestive function. A well-aligned spine promotes better communication between your brain and body—supporting overall wellness throughout your pregnancy.
Regular care in the second trimester keeps your body aligned, balanced, and better prepared for the months ahead.
Third Trimester
Preparing for Delivery
The third trimester brings significant physical demands as your baby nears full term. Chiropractic care during this time focuses on comfort, alignment, and preparing your body for a smoother labor and delivery.
As your baby grows and pressure increases, many women experience more intense back, hip, and pelvic pain. Gentle chiropractic adjustments help relieve discomfort by improving alignment, reducing tension, and easing pressure on joints and nerves.
Kinesiology taping can also be used to provide extra support for the belly and lower back, helping reduce strain on muscles and ligaments. This technique offers added comfort between adjustments and supports posture as your body continues to change.
Techniques like the Webster Technique are commonly used to support proper pelvic alignment and optimal baby positioning, which may help encourage a more efficient birth process.
Chiropractic care also supports labor preparation by maintaining balance in the pelvis and helping the nervous system coordinate your body’s natural birthing rhythms.
In addition, regular care can reduce stress and promote relaxation, helping you stay calm, centered, and comfortable as your due date approaches. A well-aligned body supports a confident, empowered birth experience.
Infants & Postpartum
Gentle Support After Birth
Birth is a major transition—for both baby and mom. Chiropractic care after delivery offers gentle, natural support to help you and your newborn recover, adapt, and thrive in those early days.
For newborns, the birth process—even in uncomplicated deliveries—can create tension or misalignments in the spine and affect nervous system function. Gentle pediatric chiropractic adjustments help relieve this stress and support proper alignment. This can improve nursing and latch issues, reduce colic and reflux, promote better sleep, and support overall comfort and development. Regular care can also help support the infant’s immune system, digestion, and motor function by enhancing nervous system communication during these critical stages of growth.
For postpartum moms, chiropractic care can ease the physical strain of labor and delivery, support a quicker recovery, and relieve back, neck, and pelvic pain that often continues while caring for a newborn. It also helps restore postural balance, supports hormone regulation, and reduces tension and fatigue during this physically and emotionally intense period.
Chiropractic care nurtures both mom and baby—offering safe, drug-free support for healing, bonding, and a healthy start to life together.
Dr. Wegleitner and Dr. Colyn Haugen provides the members of our communities with high-quality, affordable health care in a comfortable and caring environment. The goal is to alleviate pain and to inspire and educate our patients to become active participants in their own well-being in order to reach their maximum potential.
At West River Chiropractic Co, we use state-of-the-art chiropractor equipment.