Aromatherapy, music, and acupuncture for optimizing emotional wellbeing in pregnancy

TY - CHAP

T1 - Aromatherapy, music, and acupuncture for optimizing emotional wellbeing in pregnancy

AU - Einion, Alys

AU - Suzuki, Shunji

AU - Tobea, Chiharu

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

PY - 2022/2/18

Y1 - 2022/2/18

N2 - Pregnancy is a time when many women might be focusing on their health, perhaps to a greater degree than previously. Pregnancy, as every other personal experience, must be viewed holistically. Women and pregnant people often experience increased levels of stress due to fear, partly compounded by medicalized systems of maternity care. These systems can make depersonalize the experience of pregnancy. Wellbeing, although hard to define, incorporates an understanding of the intersections between mind, body and self: mood, emotion, thought and embodied experience are all part of wellbeing and this is particularly relevant during pregnancy. Too often, biomedical approaches to pregnancy care overlook emotional wellbeing and Complementary therapies such as aromatherapy, music and acupuncture offer an adjunct to conventional maternity care and the chance to optimize bio-psycho-social wellbeing throughout pregnancy, and support pregnant people to address the emotional changes and challenges of this period of growth and becoming. This chapter focuses on some ways to use complementary therapies such as aromatherapy, music, and acupuncture to enhance a person’s sense of emotional wellbeing during pregnancy. It touches on some of the psychological, personal, emotional, and physical challenges associated with the pregnancy journey, and considers ways that women and childbearing people can take charge of their own emotional state and enhance their ability to adapt to the changing landscape of body, mind, and personal world during this time of transition.

AB - Pregnancy is a time when many women might be focusing on their health, perhaps to a greater degree than previously. Pregnancy, as every other personal experience, must be viewed holistically. Women and pregnant people often experience increased levels of stress due to fear, partly compounded by medicalized systems of maternity care. These systems can make depersonalize the experience of pregnancy. Wellbeing, although hard to define, incorporates an understanding of the intersections between mind, body and self: mood, emotion, thought and embodied experience are all part of wellbeing and this is particularly relevant during pregnancy. Too often, biomedical approaches to pregnancy care overlook emotional wellbeing and Complementary therapies such as aromatherapy, music and acupuncture offer an adjunct to conventional maternity care and the chance to optimize bio-psycho-social wellbeing throughout pregnancy, and support pregnant people to address the emotional changes and challenges of this period of growth and becoming. This chapter focuses on some ways to use complementary therapies such as aromatherapy, music, and acupuncture to enhance a person’s sense of emotional wellbeing during pregnancy. It touches on some of the psychological, personal, emotional, and physical challenges associated with the pregnancy journey, and considers ways that women and childbearing people can take charge of their own emotional state and enhance their ability to adapt to the changing landscape of body, mind, and personal world during this time of transition.

KW - Aromatherapy

KW - Complementary therapies

KW - Emotional wellbeing

KW - Health

KW - Holistic

KW - Mood

KW - Music

KW - Pregnancy

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85131480686

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-818309-0.00021-6

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-818309-0.00021-6

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85131480686

SN - 9780128183106

SP - 449

EP - 464

BT - Fertility, Pregnancy, and Wellness

A2 - Vaamonde, Diana

A2 - Hackney, Anthony C.

A2 - Garcia-Manso, Juan Manuel

PB - Elsevier

ER -