Keeping you and your baby safe and comfortable during pregnancy and beyond
Pregnancy & Postpartum Care for You & Baby
pregnancy care
infants & children
bodymind healing
Healing is not about going back to where you were, it is about becoming greater than you can possibly imagine.
Pregnancy is a remarkable event, and while this is seldom lost on a parents-to-be, the experience also involves many physical and hormonal changes. These changes serve a powerful purpose: to protect your body and your baby; however, they can also disrupt your emotional and mental well-being.
We provide comprehensive specialty care for all stages of pregnancy, from weeks 4 to 42 to postpartum. We’ve seen how regular adjusting, and our Bio-Geometric Integration (BGI) can relieve the aches and pains often accompanying pregnancy and how our care encourages a more confident and enjoyable experience.
Research shows that women who utilize prenatal chiropractic care have shorter and easier labors and births. Frequently, patients tell us they wish they had started receiving our holistic care earlier because it has made their pregnancy easier and more comfortable, allowing them to focus on their baby, not their pain or limitations.
If you’re pregnant or have recently had a baby, Dr. Meggie would love the opportunity to support you through this life-changing time.
Contact our team to learn about our safe and effective prenatal and post-delivery care solutions.
Our experienced prenatal care team specializes in addressing pregnancy discomforts through personalized solutions that:
- Relieve discomfort in the spine, hips, pelvis, and joints
- Improve the body's stability and overall comfort
- Improve ease with breathing and digestion
- Maintain musculoskeletal health during this transformative time
- Build strength as the body and mind adapt to pregnancy
- Reduce mental stressors and anxieties that can manifest physically
Our conservative techniques support your well-being while ensuring complete safety for your developing baby. We design customized care plans that evolve with you through each trimester and beyond, providing practical strategies for long-term musculoskeletal health and mental and emotional well-being.
Because your safety is our highest priority throughout this partnership, we gladly collaborate with your entire healthcare team, including obstetricians, midwives, and doulas, to deliver truly holistic care.
Are Adjustments & BGI Safe During Pregnancy?
Besides this significant physical change, others occur simultaneously, some include:
- Swelling due to fluid retention, often in the ankles, causing discomfort and restricted movement
- Shifting hip joints
- Pelvic tilt
- Postural dysfunction and rounded shoulders
- Muscle weakness
- Foot imbalances and discomforts
Pregnant women will also have heightened hormone production that allows the soft tissues around the pelvis to relax, creating a better environment for delivery. All of these newfound physical transformations create musculoskeletal instability that can cause discomfort and injury.
We can help relieve and treat many common injuries and symptoms related to pregnancy, including:
- Sciatica and hip pain
- Low back pain or lumbar pain
- Foot pain
- Shoulder pain
- Knee pain
- Strains, sprains, and inflammation
- Headaches and migraines
- Anxiety
- Morning sickness
- Shortness of breath
- Acid reflux
Our family and prenatal chiropractic care team helps maintain comfort, balance, and alignment throughout pregnancy using proven solutions that are safe for both mom and baby.
Gentle, Comprehensive Prenatal Care
in Evanston
Pelvic misalignment or tightening of the pelvic muscles and ligaments are the most common reasons babies do not turn their heads down at the end of the third trimester. These issues prevent adequate space for proper positioning.
The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment method that balances pelvic muscles and ligaments. It helps the uterus return to proper alignment and shape so the baby can turn its head down.
While the Webster Technique doesn’t reposition the baby, it helps remove restrictions that push the baby into improper positions, allowing the baby to gently reconfigure itself.
Beginning chiropractic care as early as possible can help prevent issues with fetal positioning and make pregnancy, labor, and delivery easier.
The Webster Technique & Breech Positioning
Our Evanston prenatal chiropractic patients experience numerous benefits from our holistic approach, including:
- Enhanced posture and spinal alignment
- Optimal fetal positioning
- Increased energy and focus
- Feeling that there is “more room” inside the belly and ribcage
- Decreased or elimination of sciatica symptoms
- Decreased headaches and back pain
- Increased ease with breath and less shortness of breath
- Reduced feeling of instability and pain in the pelvis and pubic bone
- Better and deeper sleep
- Decreased morning sickness and nausea
- Reduced anxiety about the birth and postpartum period
- Increased ease in labor and delivery
Discover how our prenatal care can help you navigate this extraordinary time with greater calm and comfort.
The Benefits of Prenatal Chiropractic Care for You & Your Baby
Many new mothers experience a combination of physical discomfort, emotional fluctuations, overwhelm, and uncertainty about their changing bodies. These experiences are prevalent. But you don’t have to figure them out on your own.
Through targeted BGI techniques, we help you reclaim physical comfort and emotional equilibrium during this significant life transition.
We’ll advise on:
- Proper movements and positions
- How to hold your baby
- Nursing form
- How to maintain mental and emotional well-being
- Sleep quality
- Anxiety
- And other relevant topics based on your unique lifestyle and habits
Our gentle, effective techniques address your postpartum body's specific needs, empowering you to embrace new parenthood with greater ease, focus, and confidence.
Your well-being matters profoundly, and we're committed to supporting your recovery every step of the way.
If you’re ready to experience a more comfortable pregnancy and postpartum journey, connect with our prenatal chiropractic team today.
Postpartum Care in Evanston
Sarah S. // Evanston
“I found Dr. Meggie two years ago when I was pregnant and in desperate back pain. Her gentle chiropractic care and use of BioGeometric Integration garnered such amazing results; after just one initial session, I saw huge improvements. She helped me through a full recovery and my body felt back to normal. Now, because I am expecting my third child, I see her weekly during pregnancy! Thank you to Chiropractic First for all that you do to help!”
SARAH S.
Cora Health is incredible! I found Dr. Meggie two years ago when I was pregnant and in desperate pain. She garnered such amazing results; after just one session I saw huge improvements. She helped me through a full recovery and my body felt back to normal. Since then, I go to Dr. Meggie for help recovering from any kind of physical trauma and I now, because I am expecting my third child, I see her weekly during pregnancy! Thank you for all that you do to help!
JUSTINE M.
The doctors here are incredible. I have visited them with extreme back pain and gotten total relief. The soft touch and gentle body work truly works wonders. Highly recommend!
JENNY H.
I’ve been working with the chiropractors here for several years and I am so amazed by my body’s ability to heal itself now. I used to get major stiffness in my neck and lose mobility for days at a time, but since coming here it rarely happens and when it does, I’ve been able to breath through it and open it up on my own. I’ve also felt an improvement with my sleep, headaches and anxiety. Go see Meggie and tell her what’s bothering you.
SARAH M.
I have been going to Chiropractic First for many years. All the doctors are wonderful and have helped me in so many ways. In addition to helping with back pain they have helped me avoid foot surgery for a painful foot condition, made my second pregnancy so much easier and less painful than my first and helped with jaw pain from TMJ. Truly Amazing!
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