Pregnancy · Birth Preparation · Postpartum
Your body was built for this.
Let's prepare it accordingly
From the first trimester through to the birth room and beyond. Comprehensive integrative support that nourishes mother and baby at every stage, preparing your body, baby, nervous system and pelvis for the extraordinary journey of pregnancy and birth.
Natural Conception Support ✦
IVF Acupuncture Protocol ✦
Cycle Tracking & Fertility Awareness ✦
Egg Quality Optimisation ✦
Recurrent Miscarriage Support ✦
PCOS & Endometriosis ✦
Male Factor Infertility ✦
Chinese Herbal Medicine ✦
DUTCH Hormone Testing ✦
Specialist Collaboration ✦
The Dr Amanda Approach
One of life's most profound transformations.
Pregnancy is the beginning of one of life's great love stories and one of the most fundamental transformations a woman moves through. The nine months of gestation bring with them a cocktail of hormones, identity shifts, and an intelligence far greater than we often give ourselves credit for.
Your body grows an entirely new organ to nourish your baby. It resets your metabolism, prepares your breasts to nurse, buffers your growing child from stress. This miracle deserves not just medical support but physical, emotional, and energetic nourishment at every stage.
Our approach integrates the wisdom of Chinese medicine with modern obstetric understanding, working collaboratively alongside Melbourne's leading obstetricians, midwives, and doulas to provide the highest level of care.
Each woman's birth journey is unique. We honour every choice made during this time without agenda, just with complete presence.
The Pregnancy & Birth Preparation Programme
From first heart beat to fourth trimester.
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine offer a natural, evidence-based complement to maternity care honouring the body's wisdom while relieving what doesn't need to be simply endured. From your first positive HCG through to postpartum recovery, we support you at every stage.
Five Pillars of Pregnancy Care
Prepared at every stage of the journey.
Each phase of pregnancy brings different physical, emotional, and hormonal demands. Our approach is adapted specifically to where you are, never a one-size treatment, always deeply individual. Acupuncture is safe, effective and drug-free treatment throughout pregnancy and birth.
Trimester by Trimester
Every phase holds its own unique wisdom.
Acupuncture offers a drug-free treatment option throughout pregnancy that is safe and effective. A welcome alternative to medication for many pregnancy symptoms that are too often dismissed as something to simply endure.
- Nausea & morning sickness (including hyperemesis gravidarum)
- Extreme fatigue & energy depletion
- Threatened miscarriage & implantation support
- Anxiety, overwhelm & mood instability
- IVF & ART pregnancy continuation
- Headaches & breast tenderness
- Pelvic girdle pain & symphysis pubis dysfunction
- Lower back & sciatic pain
- Heartburn & reflux
- Insomnia & sleep disruption
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Gestational diabetes & blood pressure support
- Pre-birth cervical ripening protocol
- Optimal baby positioning (including breech)
- Pelvic & nervous system preparation
- Anxiety & birth fear (tokophobia)
- Insomnia & oedema
- Birth readiness assessment
Conditions I Treat
What you're experiencing doesn't need to be normalised.
Many pregnancy symptoms are dismissed as simply part of the experience. Chinese medicine offers effective, evidence-based treatment for a wide range of presentations, because your comfort and wellbeing matter throughout this journey.
Preconception health directly influences fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and the long-term health of the child. Research confirms that maternal nutritional status, stress levels, and environmental exposures in the preconception period have measurable epigenetic effects on offspring health.
Lancet Series on Preconception Care · The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) — Barker Institute
Pre-Birth Treatment Protocol
The body already knows. We prepare the path.
Pre-birth acupuncture is one of the most evidence-supported applications of Chinese medicine in pregnancy. A structured protocol of four weekly treatments from Week 36 to 40 that prepares the body, pelvis, and nervous system for the work of birth. Research suggests women who receive pre-birth acupuncture experience shorter labours, higher rates of spontaneous onset, and reduced rates of medical intervention. This isn't magic, it's preparing what was already ready to begin.
Whether journeying into fertility solo or with a partner everyone is welcome here. Telehealth consultations are available for interstate and international patients.
- Cervical ripening and softening
- Pelvic floor and sacral release
- Optimal baby positioning encouraged
- Nervous system calming and birth confidence
- Oxytocin and prostaglandin pathway support
- Personalised birth plan review and preparation
Week by Week · Wks 35–40
Labour Induction Acupuncture
When the body needs a gentle invitation.
Labour "induction acupuncture" is available from Week 40. Offering a gentle, evidence-informed way to encourage your body to begin labour spontaneously. It works by activating the same hormonal and neurological pathways that govern natural labour onset, without intervention.
The Fourth Trimester
The birth of a mother deserves as much care.
In Chinese medicine, the postpartum period is considered one of the most pivotal windows of a woman's life. What happens in the first 40 days shapes hormonal health, emotional resilience, and physical vitality for years to come. I treat this time with the gravity it deserves.
Dr Amanda · Angea Women's Health & Yoga
Over two decade's supporting modern families.
This pregnancy programme integrates the best of Chinese medicine wisdom with modern obstetric care. Working collaboratively alongside Melbourne's leading obstetricians, midwives, and doulas. Whether you're birthing with a midwife, OB, doula, or all three, we are a complement to your entire birth team.
We love that modern families come in beautiful and unique forms. Whether you're navigating pregnancy solo, with a partner, as a same-sex couple, through surrogacy, or via IVF, you are welcome here, exactly as you are.