Pregnant ladies – are you nearing or past your due date and desperate to go into labour naturally? If you’ve already tried eating spicy curries, walking for miles, and drinking raspberry leaf tea to no avail, how about booking a treatment of acupuncture?
Acupuncture involves the painless insertion of very fine needles into specific parts of your body and is based on Chinese philosophy. When you reach 40 weeks of pregnancy, the treatment can help to stimulate points that direct energy flow downwards and encourage the natural onset of labour – it’s often nicknamed ‘the natural induction’. The treatment also helps to leave you feeling both relaxed and energised, which may in turn promote labour.
Acupuncture is considered completely safe within late pregnancy and poses no risk to you or the baby.
But does it work? None of the team at Dubai Confidential were able to test it out, as although a few of us are pregnant, we’re not close enough to our due dates. But we’ve been told by a reliable Dubai-based (and British-trained) midwife that it carries up to a 50% chance of putting you into labour naturally when you reach 40 weeks. That’s pretty good odds and we will definitely be trying it if and when the time comes!
We were recommended to visit Charlotte Zoller at General Medical Centre on Jumeirah Beach Road. Call 04 3495 959 for prices and appointments.
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