Pregnancy care
Pregnancy brings nausea, tiredness and back pain, and it closes off a whole group of treatments. In LMNT a pregnant woman is treated gently, only by a trained therapist, and always alongside her doctor or midwife.
- A full pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, counted from the first day of the last period
- Morning sickness usually settles by weeks 16 to 20
- Pre-eclampsia — high blood pressure after the 20th week — occurs in 3% to 7% of pregnancies
Source: Cleveland Clinic; NHS; MedlinePlus
What is Pregnancy care?
Pregnancy is the time a baby grows in the womb — about 40 weeks, split into three parts of roughly three months each. The mother's body changes in almost every system: the heart pumps more, the blood increases, and the digestion and back take extra load.
Pregnancy is not an illness, and most discomforts are normal. But some changes — high blood pressure, heavy vomiting, bleeding — need a doctor quickly. Regular check-ups with a doctor or midwife are the heart of safe pregnancy care.
What are the symptoms?
- Nausea and vomiting, often in the morning, in the early months
- Feeling tired
- Sore breasts
- Passing urine more often
- Back pain
- Mild breathlessness
What causes it, and who is more likely to get it?
Early months
- Nausea and vomiting — common, and usually settles by weeks 16 to 20
- Vomiting so heavy that no food or fluid stays down for 24 hours needs a doctor
Middle and later months
How is it found?
Pregnancy is confirmed with a test, and then followed with regular antenatal check-ups — in the NHS, at least 10 visits in a first pregnancy.
Blood pressure and urine
Checked at most visits. A reading of 140/90 or more, especially with protein in the urine, can point to pre-eclampsia.
Blood tests
Blood group at the first visit, and iron (haemoglobin) again around 28 weeks.
Ultrasound scans
Usually one at 11 to 14 weeks and one at 18 to 21 weeks, to check the dates and how the baby is growing.
Sugar test
For women at higher risk, a test for pregnancy diabetes between 24 and 28 weeks.
A neurotherapist first asks whether there is any chance of pregnancy, reads the antenatal card line by line, and asks you to show everything you swallowed yesterday. The list of what will NOT be given is written on the card before anything is given.
How Neurotherapy sees Pregnancy care
In LMNT, the first question in pregnancy is not "what can we give?" but "what must we never give?" From the moment a pregnancy is possible, a group of treatments closes. What remains is short and gentle: help for nausea and vomiting, help to raise haemoglobin, and support for the conditions her doctor is already treating.
Guruji's standing rule governs all of it: no treatment of any kind from which the child may have trouble. After Thymus, the baby is seen to move about vigorously in the womb — LMNT reads that as a sign of trouble, and so Thymus is never given in pregnancy.
Whether or not the patient gets immediate benefit from our treatment, let no harm reach him through our carelessness — attend to this.
Neurotherapy treatment for Pregnancy care, step by step
Tell first, check first
Tell the therapist at once if there is any chance you are pregnant. The therapist reads your antenatal card, asks about every tablet, and writes the barred list on your card before anything else.
Nausea and vomiting: Gas Only
LMNT teaching gives Gas Only for nausea and to stop vomiting, especially in pregnant women. If she also has back pain, it is given with the hands, not the feet.
Low haemoglobin: the liver point
(1) point Liv × 6 treatments is given to help raise red cells or haemoglobin, especially in pregnant women — alongside the iron her doctor prescribed.
Gentle position, no pressure on the belly
No deep or sustained pressure on the belly at any stage. After about the fifth month she is tilted a little onto her left side instead of lying flat on her back.
Her doctor stays in charge
High blood pressure, thyroid and folic acid needs are set right with her doctor's treatment continuing. Neurotherapy only supports; nothing her doctor gave is stopped.
Points and formulas used
Gas Only
Given in LMNT for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy — with the hands if the back hurts.
Open →(1) point Liv × 6 treatments
The liver point given six times through the day, to help the body raise haemoglobin.
Open →Never do this
- Go to hospital at once for: any bleeding; a severe headache or blurred vision; sudden swelling of the face or hands; the baby moving less; fluid leaking; severe belly pain; or vomiting that keeps down no food or fluid. New high blood pressure in pregnancy needs a doctor the same day.
- Never in pregnancy: Thymus and Thymus + Chest (after them the baby moves about vigorously), Ton 'P', Ton 'T', and the jerk techniques — and no treatment of any kind from which the child may have trouble. Th + Ch
- No deep or sustained pressure on the belly at any stage, no straight-leg lift (ONS), and no deep pressure near the belly or pelvis. After about the fifth month, not flat on the back for long. ONS
- One calf swollen, warm and tender, in pregnancy or after delivery, may be a clot: do not press or rub it — see a doctor the same day. Thrombosis
- Treatment only by a trained therapist who knows she is pregnant, with her doctor or midwife informed. No self-treatment, and no long fasts or vigorous yoga practices without the doctor's advice.
- Take no new medicine in pregnancy without asking the doctor who is looking after you — and never stop one you have already been given (thyroid, fits, iron, folic acid, blood pressure) without asking the same person.
- Cancer: if the person has cancer, (10) Pan, Thymus, Pit, Lu + Sh, Rt. Ov / Lt. Ov and (30) Medulla are never given — the therapist changes the plan.
- Keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed. Neurotherapy works alongside your medical care, never instead of it.
Watch
A practical demo by Dr. Diwakar Shukla on the 1 Gas Only point — given as 3, 6, ×3 and ×6 — for relief from gas.
How the Gas Only point is given — shown on a person who is not pregnant. In pregnancy it is given only by a trained therapist, gently, with the hands if the back hurts, and never with deep pressure on the belly.
From practice
The pregnant teacher who stopped a tablet because of something she half-heard
A teaching case — a composite from practice, not one patient's file
29 years · fifth month of pregnancy · vomiting that would not stop, low back pain, no strength
- What was found
- Her antenatal card showed a thyroid problem diagnosed before the pregnancy and a daily tablet. For the vomiting she was given Gas Only — with the hands, because of her back pain — and the barred list was written on her card first.
- What was done
- The vomiting eased in four days, but she grew slower, colder and puffy. Asked to list everything she swallowed the day before, she had no thyroid tablet: a neighbour had half-repeated a rule about pills in pregnancy. She was sent back to her doctor that week and the tablet was restarted.
- What it teaches
- Say both halves, in front of the family: take no new medicine without the doctor, and never stop one without the doctor. Her tiredness lifted after the tablet went back — the therapist wrote "tablet, not us" on the card. She delivered at term.
From Ayurveda and the kitchen
Test yourself
What research says
- Strong evidence
Plasma volume rises by about 50% in a normal pregnancy, more than the red cells do, so haemoglobin falls a little by dilution. The heart and circulation work harder throughout.
- Strong evidence
Folic acid taken before conception and in early pregnancy clearly lowers the risk of neural tube defects (such as spina bifida) in the baby — which is why it must start before, not after, a missed period.
No clinical trial of Neurotherapy in pregnancy has been published yet. Improvements reported by neurotherapists are clinical observations.
For you
Women planning a pregnancy
Start folic acid daily before you conceive, not after — and ask a doctor about a larger dose if you have diabetes, take medicine for fits, or had a baby with a spine defect before.
Mothers-to-be
Keep every antenatal check-up. Tell your therapist you are pregnant, and tell your doctor you are taking Neurotherapy.
Families
Leave treatment in pregnancy to a trained therapist. What you can do: see she drinks through the day, rests, and takes every tablet her doctor gave her.
This page explains; it does not diagnose. Neurotherapy works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed, and see a doctor for any new or severe symptom.