To have a comfortable pregnancy, and most importantly, a safe birth, your hips and sacrum must find the balance between mobility and stability. The foundation of good alignment and proper motion will allow for your hips to feel and function at their best during this important time.
As we've discussed in our previous blogs, your body is absolutely designed to be pregnant! However, the combination of extra weight, a change forward in your center of gravity, and the hormone relaxin (which makes everything loose prior to birth) has been a hard combination for many expecting mamas. Your sacrum, hips, pubic bone and all the surrounding tissues may be having their most difficult time ever. Sometimes the sacrum can get stuck in the wrong position. Other times, it feels like it's popping and moving way too much! However, this doesn't mean that you are predestined to pain, sleeplessness, and a difficult birth.
The Webster Technique was designed to first analyze to find then remove nerve interference from the sacrum/sacroiliac joints. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation/ SI joint dysfunction. In doing so, the pelvic and sacrum can move and function in the best possible way. If left uncorrected, sacral subluxation may contribute to difficult labor for the mother (i.e., dystocia), caused by inadequate uterine function, pelvic contraction, and baby mal-presentation. Correction the misalignment in the sacrum may have a positive effect on all of these causes of dystocia.
Outside of your pelvis balancing adjustments and round ligament work, we recommend many other things to promote both mobility and stability:
- Spinning Babies exercises
- Craniosacral therapy, which helps both with fascia and joint movement,
- Doing regular squats (the goal is to work up to 200/day!) to keep the sacrum moving and strengthen your legs and glutes,
- spending lots of time on your hands and knees, and lastly...
- sitting forward on your seat to let your belly button point toward the floor. To learn more about other soft tissue techniques that you can use at home with your spouse or partner, email us!