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Expectant mothers often ask midwives or doctors about natural remedies and complementary therapies,
for relaxation, to relieve discomforts such as “morning sickness” or backache,
ease labour pain or treat complications such as breech presentation,
but do not always know where to find appropriate information.
Research suggests that many aspects of complementary medicine are safe during pregnancy and childbirth,
but some, such as herbal remedies, need to be used with caution or avoided.
Midwives and doctors are also at a loss to know where to find accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information,
and need adequate and appropriate education to advise on or treat women safely
with natural remedies and alternative therapies.
Similarly, complementary practitioners frequently decline to treat pregnant women
because they lack the confidence and relevant knowledge to treat them safely.
Expectancy aims to offer a variety of information, advice and education resources to mothers,
midwives, doctors and therapists. Expectancy’s Director, Denise Tiran, a midwife,
university lecturer, author and practitioner of several therapies, is an internationally-renowned
authority in maternity-related complementary medicine and believes that complementary therapies
should be incorporated into normal maternity care.
For a full biography of Denise Tiran see teaching team
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