Your Pregnancy Journey with Van Every
Gentle, supportive care for every stage. Tap each section below to follow your journey from your first trimester through bringing baby home.
Gentle, supportive care for every stage. Tap each section below to follow your journey from your first trimester through bringing baby home.
A warm, stage-by-stage guide for our expecting moms. We are honored to walk this journey alongside you.
Congratulations, Mama. We are so honored to be part of your prenatal care. Pregnancy is a beautiful and transformative time, and it also places real physical demands on your body. At Van Every Family Chiropractic Center, we support expectant mothers in staying comfortable, well, and balanced through every stage.
This guide is your companion through pregnancy, with gentle, plain-language information for each trimester and beyond. Our goal is simple: to help you enjoy a healthy pregnancy, feel cared for, and know you have a direct line to your team whenever a question comes up.
As your body changes, regular chiropractic care helps you adapt more gracefully. Relaxin hormone loosens ligaments, your center of gravity shifts, and your pelvis prepares for birth. Our gentle care supports pelvic balance, eases common discomfort, and supports healthy nervous-system function as you grow.
About the Webster Technique: This is a specific chiropractic sacral analysis and gentle adjustment that helps restore balance to the muscles and ligaments of the pelvis. As chiropractors, we care for the mother. We focus entirely on optimizing your sacral alignment and pelvic comfort.
The best time to begin is as early as possible, though it is never too late. We welcome pregnant patients at any stage. Let us know how we can best support you.
So much is underway in these early weeks. By the end of the first trimester your baby has formed its major features and all of its internal organs. For you, this stage often brings the strongest symptoms: nausea, fatigue, headaches, constipation, and the first new aches as your body begins to change.
Early care helps establish a baseline of spinal health, supports your nervous system as hormones shift, and eases nausea-related tension. Gentle adjustments help your body adapt to all the changes ahead. Many moms also notice better sleep and a calmer, more comfortable start.
When to call your provider: Reach out right away for heavy vaginal bleeding, inability to hold down fluids for 12 hours, a high fever over 101 degrees, diarrhea lasting more than 24 hours, abnormal discharge or burning, or severe, persistent cramping. When in doubt, call us. Nothing you ask will surprise us.
A recommended rhythm for this stage is about one to two visits per month. Each visit is gentle and unhurried, with comfortable positioning for you and your growing belly.
For many moms this is the most enjoyable stretch. Nausea usually fades, your energy returns, and you may feel those first sweet flutters and kicks. Your baby grows quickly now, and your center of gravity keeps shifting as your belly grows.
As your pelvis and lower back take on more, gentle care helps address your shifting center of gravity, supports round-ligament comfort, and helps maintain pelvic balance. This is also the stage when sciatica can appear, a sharp pain that travels from the low back down the leg. Chiropractic care is one of the best supportive options for that discomfort.
Cravings are very common in the second trimester. Enjoy them mindfully, keep an eye on your daily intake, and focus on foods that nourish you and your baby. If hips, low back, or leg cramps keep bothering you, a gentle adjustment may be just what helps you feel aligned again.
A common rhythm now is about two to three visits per month. Lean on your support people too. Building a circle of friends, family, or a local mom group makes this season fuller and easier.
The home stretch. Your baby is getting bigger and has less room, so you may feel stronger kicks and more pressure. Some early symptoms can return, such as reflux, fatigue, and trouble sleeping, along with new ones like Braxton Hicks tightening and backaches. As your baby drops lower in preparation for birth, you may feel more pelvic pressure but breathe a little easier.
Gentle care helps support pelvic biomechanics, ease hip and low-back discomfort, and maintain sacral alignment as relaxin softens your connective tissue for birth. This is the stage where the Webster Technique is often emphasized to support optimal pelvic function and balance.
The Webster Technique and birth prep: The Webster Technique is a specific sacral analysis and gentle adjustment that helps reduce sacral and SI joint dysfunction and supports balance in the pelvic muscles and ligaments. The goal is improved comfort and pelvic function for you as your body prepares for delivery.
As delivery approaches, weekly visits are common to keep you comfortable and balanced through the final weeks. You are doing great, Mama. Hang in there.
Welcome, Mom. Your body has just moved through one of the most powerful physical events it will ever experience. Your care does not end at delivery. This season is about restoring you fully, not just getting by.
After nine months of pregnancy and the demands of birth, gentle care helps you realign after delivery, restore pelvic balance, and ease the strain of nursing, holding, and carrying your baby. Relaxin keeps affecting your ligaments for months, so your body benefits from support as it heals.
Timing is flexible. After a vaginal birth, gentle care can often begin within days. After a C-section, we usually wait about four to six weeks for the incision to heal, then begin gently. It is never too late to start.
You are welcome to bring baby to your appointments. Birth, even a gentle one, can create small misalignments in a newborn's spine and nervous system. Our care for infants is remarkably gentle, about the pressure of touching a closed eyelid, with no cracking or popping. Many babies sleep right through it.
Gentle newborn care can support feeding, sleeping, and comfort. If you notice difficulty latching on one side, a head that tilts or turns one way, frequent spitting up, or fussiness, we are glad to take a look and explain what we find.
A gift for your new baby: a free newborn exam
As a thank you to the families who trust us through pregnancy, we are glad to offer a complimentary newborn chiropractic exam. To qualify, the mother must have been under our care during her pregnancy, and baby is seen within one month of delivery. Just ask us and we will schedule baby's first visit.
You matter too. It is easy to pour everything into your baby. Caring for yourself helps you care for your little one. You have taken care of baby for nine months. Now let us help take care of you.