Maternal Osteopathic Care
Gentle Osteopathic Care for Mothers and Babies
Pregnancy, birth and early motherhood place huge demands on the body. Changes can happen gradually, without you noticing and while you’re busy thinking about everyone but yourself.
Maternal Osteopathic Care is a specialist Osteopathic service, rooted in Classical Osteopathy offering calm and attentive treatment, as much as clinical skill.
The clinic is held in a safe and compassionate environment, where mothers, partners and families feel listened to and supported based on their own unique requirements.
Maternal Osteopathic Care is designed to support you through:
Supporting you – from Preparation to Parenthood
Fertility & Pre-Pregnancy Support
Preparing for pregnancy is about more than timing. Osteopathy can support fertility by optimising the body’s structure, circulation, nervous system balance, and hormonal communication, creating the best possible environment for conception.
It doesn’t “force” pregnancy, but it removes physical barriers and stress patterns that can interfere with reproductive function.
Maternal Osteopathic Care commonly supports women with:
- Pelvic or lower back tension
- Menstrual discomfort or cycle-related strain
- Stress, fatigue, or nervous system overload
- Preparing the body following previous pregnancy or birth
- The treatment is calming, relaxing and effective. You may even be unable to detect any movement occurring.
Our lead Osteopath, Quentin Shaw, is one of the foremost practitioners of Osteopathy for pregnancy and treatment of Pelvic Girdle Pain in the country. He, along with his colleagues at Tunbridge Wells Osteopaths, represent decades of experience caring for women at every stage of their pregnancy, plus Cranial Osteopathy for your baby.
We cannot overlook a partner’s role in the pregnancy journey and therefore also acknowledge their involvement and offer support to them. This might take the form of helping with fertility issues, or easing aches and pains brought on by lifting equipment, prolonged soothing of the baby or the stress or anxiety that having a newborn can bring.
Supporting you – from Preparation to Parenthood
Pregnancy Support
During pregnancy, your body changes constantly. Maternal Osteopathic Care offers gentle, hands-on support to help you adapt more comfortably.
We commonly support mums with:
- Back, pelvic, hip, rib, or neck pain
- Pelvic discomfort or feelings of heaviness
- Sciatic or sacroiliac discomfort
- Breathing or postural changes
- General tension, fatigue, or overwhelm
Our lead Osteopath, Quentin Shaw, is one of the foremost practitioners of Osteopathy for pregnancy and treatment of Pelvic Girdle Pain in the country. He, along with his colleagues at Tunbridge Wells Osteopaths, represent decades of experience caring for women at every stage of their pregnancy, plus Cranial Osteopathy for your baby.
We cannot overlook a partner’s role in the pregnancy journey and therefore also acknowledge their involvement and offer support to them. This might take the form of helping with fertility issues, or easing aches and pains brought on by lifting equipment, prolonged soothing of the baby or the stress or anxiety that having a newborn can bring.
Pregnancy Support
During pregnancy, your body changes constantly. Maternal Osteopathic Care offers gentle, hands-on support to help you adapt more comfortably.
Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
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Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
Chronic stress activates the sympathetic (“fight or flight”) nervous system, which can suppress reproductive hormones.
Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
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Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
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Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
Chronic stress activates the sympathetic (“fight or flight”) nervous system, which can suppress reproductive hormones.
Balance the nervous system (stress → hormones)
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Proud partner of Unity Yoga & BodyMind Birthing
Unity Yoga offers specialist pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes.
BodyMind Birthing offers holistic antenatal education and hypnobirth with a senior yoga teacher, active birth and hypnobirth teacher.
Get in touch
5 Upper Grosvenor Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 2DU
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0)1892 535858