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   Pregnancy & Labour Support

Congratulations on your pregnancy!!  As your body and hormones start to change, Dr. Montroy will work with you to naturally support your pregnancy and to help treat the most common pregnancy complaints including:                      

As a part of our Well Pregnancy Program Dr. Montroy will monitor your health and use natural supportive treatments including dietary counselling, supplementation, acupuncture, bodywork, homeopathic medicine and botanical medicine to support you throughout each trimester.She is happy to work supportively along with your midwife or maternity doctor. Dr. Montroy also encourages you to work with us to create a birth plan to outline your needs during labour, delivery and post partum. With this in place, it is much easier for all of your care providers to work together to create the birthing environment you want.

Finally, Naturopathic Doctors are an invaluable support in labour. Dr. Montroy can be called on for at-home labour induction using well researched acupuncture techniques if your pregnancy is overdue. She also attend births for pain management and labour support using acupuncture, botanicals and homepathy which have been extensively studied during child birth. Give us a call today to book your free 15 minute consultation with Dr. Montroy. Dr. Montroy is a member of DONA International and Association of Perinatal Naturopathic Doctors (APND).

Well Pregnancy Program:
Includes well pregnancy intake and physical exams, dietary counselling, supplementation program, acupuncture, bodywork, homeopathic medicine and botanical medicine to support you throughout each trimester. We also offer acupuncture to help treat many pregnancy related complications and with cervical ripening at 36 weeks+ and labour induction 38 weeks+. Our doctors will also with work with you and your partner to help you develope a safe and natural birth plan.

Naturopathic Labour and Delivery Care Support Program:
Cost: $600.
Complete labour care including initial meet and greet visit, on-call service, home and hospital labour supportive care and assisted pain management (may include
homeopathy, acupuncture and massage). Includes as well one post delivery care visit at hospital or home for both mother and baby in conjunction with midwifes and or maternity doctors.


Doula Support Program:
Cost: $500
Includes initial meet and greet visit. Labour care includes on-call service, continuous emotional and physical support throughout labour and delivery at home or hospital and assisted pain management techniques (massage included). We offer one postpartum home visit to assist in the supportive care of both mother and baby after delivery.
**We accept acute referrals from midwives and maternity doctors.

 Induction Support:
We offer acupuncture, botanical medicine and homeopathy to assist with cervical ripening and the onset and progression of labour. Contact the clinic for more information. Labour induction acupuncture packages available.