| When you conceive and become pregnant, your | | | | body that it's time to deliver? What if the |
| body begins to prepare for giving birth and, at the | | | | mother's body doesn't recognize this message? |
| same time, it nurtures the fragile fetus growing in | | | | Could that be one of the reasons why so many |
| your womb. Full-term pregnancy is considered to | | | | pregnancies become overdue and EDD are |
| last 38 or 40 weeks. When the length is calculated | | | | passed? |
| from the estimated day of fertilization, the | | | | Holistic approaches aim to maintain an ideal balance |
| pregnancy period is couple of weeks shorter than | | | | and help our bodies to function better in various |
| that calculated from the start of the last | | | | situations of life. This is how these methods help |
| menstruation. | | | | the mother's body to be more sensitive to mutual |
| Every labor and delivery is different. How long the | | | | communication between the mother and the baby |
| labor lasts and how fast or slow it progresses | | | | during pregnancy, labor and delivery. |
| differs from woman to woman and from birth to | | | | Maternity Acupressure is a natural holistic method |
| birth. Some women experience very distinct signs | | | | that helps the mother's body to prepare for |
| of labor, while others do not. | | | | childbirth. Maternity Acupressure is beneficial, also, |
| There are several early symptoms that reveal | | | | for the baby because it helps the baby to take |
| that your labor is about to start and your baby is | | | | the optimal position for the birth and to be |
| going to be born. Among these early labor | | | | engaged into the mother's pelvis. Maternity |
| symptoms are loose bowel movements. The | | | | Acupressure method can also be used to induce |
| intestine commonly empties just before labor | | | | the labor naturally if the pregnancy is already |
| starts. A quick decrease in the level of hormone | | | | overdue. Because of the high success rate, |
| progesterone is being considered for causing this | | | | Maternity Acupressure has quickly become a |
| effect. Another early sign of labor is a feeling of | | | | popular natural labor induction remedy used by |
| shivering or trembling that you might experience | | | | many professional pregnancy and labor caregivers. |
| without any sensation of cold or weakness. | | | | As Maternity Acupressure uses only application of |
| Passing blood tinged mucus discharge from the | | | | pressure on specific spots on the skin, it can be |
| vagina is a common early sign of labor, as well. | | | | safely used at home with basic instructions. |
| This may happen one day or several weeks | | | | Studies prove that over 83% of pregnant |
| before labor begins, or after a vaginal exam. | | | | mothers using acupressure to induce labor |
| Labor can also start with a trickle or gush of | | | | naturally experience a normal and natural childbirth |
| water from the vagina. This means that the bag | | | | with significantly less medical interventions than |
| of water, meaning the amniotic sac that | | | | pregnant mothers who don't use this method. |
| surrounds the baby, has broken. | | | | Additionally, their labor time was shorter without |
| No one knows exactly what causes labor to start | | | | signs of distress or hyperstimulation of the womb. |
| or why so many pregnancies become overdue. | | | | On the contrary, acupressure seems to avert the |
| One of the recent studies published in European | | | | mother and the baby to become distressed |
| Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and | | | | during labor and delivery. |
| Reproductive Biology (Vol. 132, June 2007) | | | | Thus, holistic methods, such as Maternity |
| revealed that when the level of specific mRNA | | | | Acupressure, might have a remarkably beneficial |
| molecules in mother's blood circulation increases, | | | | effect in preparing the mother and the baby for |
| the labor is about to begin. What is interesting is | | | | the birth that occurs at the right time in the most |
| that these molecules are of fetal origin. Could it be | | | | optimal manner. |
| so that the baby sends a signal to the mother's | | | | |