Chiropractic Care While Pregnant: Yes or No?

Hi Everyone!

My back has been bothering me, so I made an appointment with a chiropractor and went today. I went to someone who specializes in prenatal care, and thought some of you might be interested in how it went. 

The Good:

• My back is sore since the visit (she [the chiropractor] said it would be), but the pain I've been living with is essentially gone
• She has a table where the belly drops out, so I got to lay on my stomach for the first time in a while...so nice :)
• She did a lot to monitor my babies/my general health, including taking my blood pressure, listening to the babies' heartbeats, measuring my belly, etc. Always nice to get a peek into what's going on inside me. The more monitoring, the better, I say, as I still have a little bit of fear that something could be going wrong in there. (By the way, she said one baby had a heart rate in the 120s and the other in the 140s, which she said was fine and Dr. Google agrees)
• She also told me regular visits would help make labor a lot easier, which of course is a desirable thing 

The Bad:

• There was a lot of judgement about having ultrasounds (bad for the baby, I was told...and why had I had so many?), and taking Zofran and the occasional Tylenol. And the way it was presented was not the best. It's one thing to say, "Going forward, consider not doing this;" another to say, "What you've already done is bad."
• Also a lot of judgement about using IVF to get pregnant. I really believe in alternative medicine, but I'm sick of having practitioners tell me that IVF was a waste of time and money and if I'd just been more invested in natural/alternative medicine, I would have gotten pregnant no problem. That may be true, but there were so many things demonstrably wrong with me (5 separate issues diagnosed)...I don't know...I have a hard time believing IVF was a bad choice. And over the years I tried to get pregnant without medical intervention, I went to a chiropractor, acupuncturist, did a lot with nutrition, stress relief, massage, etc. I could have done more, I'm sure, but it's not like I didn't try that route. I still get defensive when people act like I just didn't try hard enough and going to an RE was kind of a cop-out

Bottom Line:

I can pretty much brush off all the judgmental stuff that was thrown at me today (it wasn't upsetting or scary, really, I was more just annoyed). And if it continues to help my back feel better, I'm going to keep going every two weeks as recommended. It feels safe to me (especially with this doctor having done a lot of work with pregnant women), and if it helps to make my pregnancy more comfortable, why not, right?

Anyone else been to the chiropractor while pregnant or trying to conceive? What did you think?

XO