Acupuncture and prevention of miscarriage
Acupuncture and prevention of miscarriage
🔶Experiencing a miscarriage can be heartbreaking, and for those who go through multiple miscarriages, the emotional toll can be overwhelming. When a woman has three or more consecutive miscarriages, it is called recurrent miscarriage.
🔶Researchers and medical professionals believe that in most cases, miscarriages in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy are caused by random chromosomal abnormalities. These are genetic instructions that guide the baby’s development, and if something goes wrong, the pregnancy may not continue.
🔶But another reason for miscarriage can be low levels of progesterone, which sustains pregnancy and the thickness of womb lining. Higher levels of Luteinising hormone (LH) in the first half of the menstrual cycle, have also been linked to greater risk of miscarriage.
🔶Miscarriages that aren’t the result of chromosomal defects, hormonal imbalance, or abnormalities of the uterus have been also linked to immunological dysfunction or over reactive immune system. If your immune system is weak, or even if it is too efficient in fighting off the everyday threat of infection and disease, it may affect your fertility. There is more and more evidence now that an abnormal immune response can affect implantation and increase the risk of multiple miscarriages.
🔶With so much information available online, it’s natural to search for answers after a miscarriage. While learning more may not take away the pain, it can help us feel more in control.
🔶No matter the reason for a miscarriage, many women feel anxious about future pregnancies. The desire to be as healthy as possible becomes very strong. That’s why it’s useful to look at ways to support fertility and pregnancy.
🔶Acupuncture is well known for its ability to balance hormones by regulating FSH, LH and by supporting increased levels of progesterone levels needed to maintain a healthy pregnancy until the placenta has developed. Acupuncture improves the blood supply to the uterine lining and placenta.
🔶Acupuncture has shown in research to reduce the risk of miscarriage by increasing blood flow to the uterine lining by increasing the thickness and producing few layers in the womb lining needed for implantation.
🔶Acupuncture also normalises the function of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Ovarian axis which helps to improve the function of the ovaries. Ovaries help to mature the developing follicles and egg quality which leads to stronger embryos.
🔶As Acupuncture helps to regulate blood flow to the uterus it helps to nourish and feed the embryo as well as and also regulates the immune factors that could be preventing implantation, thereby reducing the risk of a threatened miscarriage.
🔶Acupuncture offers emotional and mental support by reducing stress levels and relaxes the body, which helps with prevention of early uterine contractions.