Pregnancy and Women's Health

Dr. Sarah Leatherman is a chiropractic physician, wife and mother of a beautiful son.  She was an adjunct professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Pensacola Junior College and enjoys lecturing.  She was awarded the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Service Award while interning for her doctorate degree.   Her clinical focus is on chiropractic care for pregnant women, pediatric care, nutritional education, natural hormone balancing for menopausal symptoms, and she is an advocate for breastfeeding mothers. 

CHIROPRACTIC CARE in pregnancy is vital to the normal physiological function of both the mother and baby in pregnancy and birth:

In the mother, chiropractic care:

• Facilitates proper motion of the spine and pelvis, thus reducing low back or pubic pain related to the altered biomechanics of pregnancy
• Prepares the pelvis for an easier pregnancy and birth by creating a state of balance in pelvic bony structures, muscles and ligaments.
• Removes tension on the ligaments that support the uterus thus reducing torsion (intrauterine constraint) to the woman’s uterus
• Reduces interference to the mother’s vital nerve system which controls and coordinates all of her systems and functions
• Allows for a safer, easier birth for the mother decreasing the potential for intervention

In the infant, chiropractic care:

• Allows the baby the room to develop without restrictions to its forming cranium, spine and other skeletal structures
• Offers the baby the room to move into the best possible position for birth
• With proper fetal positioning, there is a significant decrease in dystocia and the resulting birth trauma caused by intervention

The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces interference to the nerve system and balances pelvic muscles and ligaments. This in turn reduces the cause of intra-uterine constraint and allows the baby to get into the best possible position for birth.