Your Body, Changing Fast
Pregnancy is a time of enormous physical change in a short period of time. For some women, this transition is smooth and relatively comfortable. For others, the rapid shifts in posture, weight distribution, and ligament laxity bring significant discomfort.
Osteopathy can help at every stage — from early pregnancy through the final weeks, and into the post-partum recovery period. Treatment is adapted to be gentle, safe, and effective at each trimester.
Mary is a recommended Pelvic Partnership practitioner — a recognition awarded to osteopaths with proven expertise in pelvic girdle pain and related conditions during pregnancy.
What Can Mary Help With?
Throughout pregnancy, and after delivery, the body undergoes rapid structural change. Osteopathic treatment is adapted to be safe and gentle at every trimester — and in the weeks and months following birth.
Low Back Pain
The most common pregnancy complaint. Changing posture, increasing weight, and shifting pelvic mechanics all place new demands on the lower back.
Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP)
Including symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD). Mary is a Pelvic Partnership recommended practitioner with specialist experience in PGP management.
Hip & Leg Discomfort
Sciatica, hip tightness, restless legs, and nerve-related symptoms common in mid-to-late pregnancy.
Rib & Mid-Back Pain
As the ribcage expands to accommodate the growing baby, mid-back and rib discomfort is common — and very treatable.
Post-Partum Recovery
Pelvic floor, sacrum, coccyx, and abdominal tension following vaginal or caesarean delivery. Recovery care tailored to your birth experience.
C-Section Scar Tissue
Gentle fascial work to address tension and restriction arising from caesarean scar tissue — supporting comfort and movement recovery.
Baby Position & Optimal Engagement
Mary's advice from 35 weeks: To reduce the chance of a back-to-back (occiput posterior) presentation, minimise sitting from 35 weeks. Lie down to rest, or sit with your knees lower than your hips — this keeps the pelvic inlet open and encourages baby into the optimal position for labour.
Osteopathy may help babies to turn into better positions and can support optimal engagement before labour. Working with pelvic mobility and the balance of the surrounding muscles and ligaments, Mary aims to give baby the best possible space to find the ideal position.
This is particularly relevant if you have been told your baby is back-to-back, breech, or oblique at a late stage of pregnancy.
What About After Birth?
Post-partum recovery deserves as much attention as pregnancy itself. Birth — however it unfolds — places significant demands on the pelvis, sacrum, and coccyx, all of which may benefit from gentle osteopathic attention in the weeks that follow.
Abdominal and pelvic floor rebalancing is an important part of post-natal recovery. Carrying, feeding positions and broken sleep all create new postural demands that can accumulate quickly in the early weeks.
Mary helps new mothers rebuild from the inside out — gently and at their own pace. There is no rush, and no pressure. The goal is sustainable recovery and renewed ease in the body.