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Postpartum Chiropractic

With Minnesota’s only chiropractor + midwife

Your body just did something extraordinary, and recovery deserves real, expert care. As Minnesota's only dual chiropractor and midwife, Dr. Chrisi supports you through the fourth trimester with gentle, specialized postpartum care, easing the aches of feeding and carrying, helping your body rebuild and rebalance, and helping you feel strong and steady again in new motherhood. It's a depth of experience and understanding you simply won't find anywhere else.

✓ Webster Certified · Since 2015
✓ ICPA Perinatal Certified
✓ Certified Professional Midwife
✓ BRM® Certified Pro
✓ 300+ Births Attended

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top reasons

WHY MAMAS
COME IN

POSTPARTUM

MAMAS

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New motherhood asks a lot of your body, all day and often all night. We help relieve the low back, hip, neck, upper back and wrist pain that comes from feeding, lifting, rocking, and carrying your growing baby. Gentle, tailored adjustments ease that built-up tension and help your body move and rest more comfortably. Because caring for your little one is so much easier when you're not in pain and your nervous system is regulated.

new mom aches & discomfort

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breastfeeding support

Feeding struggles are exhausting, and they're rarely about just one of you. We ease the neck, shoulder, and upper back tension that makes nursing so uncomfortable for mom, then assess you and baby together as the pair you are. When it helps, we gently work on baby's tension too, since a tight little body can make latching and feeding harder. Caring for the whole motherbaby dyad is often what finally helps feeding start to feel easier.

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smoother birth recovery

However your birth unfolded, your body has been through so much, and it deserves care as it heals. We gently support your recovery after a vaginal birth, or with careful modifications after a C-section, even in those tender early weeks. Our focus is helping your pelvis, low back, core, and of course your nervous system find their footing again as everything settles. So you can feel steadier, stronger, and more like yourself with each passing week.

Other Reasons New Mamas Visit Us

    • Supporting a calm, well-regulated nervous system

    • Easing the physical tension that comes with stress and little sleep

    • Encouraging better rest, digestion, and everyday comfort

    • Helping your body adapt to the demands of new motherhood

    • Routine wellness care as you heal and rebuild

    • Overall balance and feeling like yourself again

    • Trouble sleeping or getting comfortable

    • Full-body tension and exhaustion

    • Headaches and jaw tension

    • General aches from constant holding and rocking

    • Restless, achy hips at night

    • Staying mobile and comfortable through busy days

    • Low back and hip pain from constant lifting and carrying

    • Mid-back and rib tension from rocking and holding

    • Tension headaches from posture and fatigue

    • Jaw and neck tightness from stress and little sleep

    • General soreness from all-day holding and bending

    • Achy, restless hips at night

    • Tailbone and SI joint discomfort

    • Staying mobile and comfortable through busy days

    • Neck, shoulder, and upper back pain from hours of feeding

    • Sore, aching wrists and "mom thumb" from holding and lifting

    • Upper back and rib tension from hunching to nurse

    • Clogged ducts and discomfort linked to muscle tension and posture

    • Assessing you and baby together as the feeding pair you are

    • Gentle work on baby's neck and jaw tension that can affect latch

    • Support for babies who favor one side or struggle to turn to nurse

    • Easing the body tension behind a shallow or painful latch

    • Support alongside your work on tongue and lip ties

    • Comfortable positioning and posture guidance for feeding

    • Realigning and rebalancing the pelvis after birth

    • Low back and SI joint discomfort

    • Tailbone pain and pressure

    • Gentle, modified support after a C-section

    • Easing tension through the abdomen and core

    • Support through diastasis recti recovery

    • Hip discomfort and instability

    • Posture support as your body settles

  • A woman holding a baby with a man and a young boy on a bed, all smiling and engaging with each other in a cozy bedroom.

    "It’s my favorite time of the week. I started to go at the begining of my pregnancy with a really bad lower back pain, and worried about how it might be later on with a bigger and heavier belly. I am 37 weeks pregnant now and I can tell you: My back does not bother me at all! (I mean, just the normal laydown position during pregnancy) but before, I couldn’t even move."

    ★★★★★

    - Sara G.

  • A woman, a young child, and two men are on a bed in a cozy bedroom. The woman is holding a baby wrapped in a blanket, and the boy is leaning over to look at the baby. The men are supporting the boy, creating a warm and intimate family moment.

    "If you're looking for loving and kind prenatal, postnatal, and infant chiropractic care from a highly skilled Chiro and from someone who actually listens and *gets* it, you've found your place! The office is peace, calm and welcoming to you and your littles! (And FRESH BAKED COOKIES!?! Included.)"

    ★★★★★

    -Andrea C.

  • A family in a cozy bedroom, with a woman holding a baby, a young boy leaning on her, and a man supporting the boy from behind.

    "Dr. Chrisi is a wealth of knowledge with firsthand experience as a both as a midwife and a mother herself, which makes her an expert compassionate listener with very educated and real-life applicable advice (especially for all things pregnancy, motherhood, and infant support!). Her perspective comes from a whole-person approach, to support both the body and the nervous system."

    ★★★★★

    -Hannah K.

Why Mothers Trust MotherBaby 

THE MOTHERBABY DIFFERENCE

Expertise You Trust

  • 11+ years of hands-on experience in prenatal, postpartum, and pediatric care
  • Certified Professional Midwife with 300+ births and postpartum supports attended
  • Thousands of women supported through pregnancy, birth, and recovery
  • BRM® Pro Certified for postpartum recovery and rebuilding
  • ICPA Perinatal Certified
  • Proud member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA)

Gentle, Expert Postpartum Care

  • Gentle, modified care that meets your body where it is in recovery
  • Support for both vaginal and C-section healing, even in the early weeks
  • Care for you and baby together as one connected pair
  • Specialized tables and positioning made for a healing body
  • Customized exercises to rebuild core and pelvic strength
  • A thorough assessment to build recovery around your goals

A Warm Welcome

  • Care from the only dual chiropractor and midwife in Minnesota
  • Complimentary healing teas and fresh organic lactation cookies at every visit
  • A calm, unhurried space where you come first for once
  • A community of mamas walking the fourth trimester alongside you
  • A supportive place to ask any question, big or small
  • Care you can trust from bump to birth and well beyond

Rare combination of specialty training and a warm, unhurried space, all under one roof for families in the Twin Cities.

Advanced Training

ICPA Perinatal Certified: specialized training for mama's recovery.

Perinatal certification through the ICPA is advanced, focused training in caring for women through pregnancy, birth, and the tender postpartum season. It goes deep into the real challenges of recovery: the aches and physical strain of new motherhood, a nervous system stretched thin by healing and little sleep, and the feeding struggles that so often trace back to tension in both mom and baby, including tethered oral tissues (TOTs) like tongue and lip ties.

This is what lets us care for you and your baby as the connected pair you are. Rather than treating your recovery as an afterthought, we bring specialized, whole-person training to help ease your discomfort, support a calmer nervous system, and make feeding feel more comfortable for you both.

✓ ICPA Perinatal Certified · Advanced Perinatal Training

Recovery Method

The Body Ready Method®: supporting a smoother postpartum recovery.

The Body Ready Method is an advanced, movement-based approach that helps your body heal and rebuild after birth from the inside out. Through gentle bodywork and customized exercises, we support your core and pelvic floor, ease built-up tension, and help restore the strength, mobility, and balance that carrying and delivering your baby asked so much of.

Best of all, we send you home with simple, doable tools to support your recovery between visits, so healthy healing can happen right in your living room, in the small pockets of time you actually have. We weave this approach into your care from your very first postpartum visit, and many mamas add 1:1 Body Ready Method sessions to go even deeper.

✓ Body Ready Method® · Certified Pro

postpartum Chiropractic

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Postpartum care is gentle, and always adapted to where your body is in recovery. We use soft, low-force techniques and modify everything for a healing body, whether you had a vaginal birth or a C-section. Nothing forceful, nothing rushed, just careful care that meets you exactly where you are.

  • A lot of what makes new motherhood physically hard. We support recovery and realignment after birth, ease the neck, back, and wrist pain from feeding and carrying, help with breastfeeding tension for you and baby, and support a calmer, more regulated nervous system. The goal is simple: help you feel more like yourself again.

  • Sooner than most mamas expect. Many come in within the first few weeks, and gentle, modified care can begin early, even after a C-section. That said, there's no wrong time. Whether it's been days or many months, your body still benefits from recovery care, so come whenever you're ready.

  • No. Everything we do is gentle and tailored to a postpartum body, so care should feel calm and comfortable, never painful. When we work with baby, we use only the lightest, softest touch. Most mamas find their visits are the most relaxing part of their week.

  • There's no one-size-fits-all answer, and that's a good thing. Your plan is built around your body, your recovery, and your goals. We'll give you an honest recommendation for what it will realistically take to help you heal and feel your best, and we're good at finding the sweet spot most mamas find doable and truly appreciate.

  • Always. Your baby is welcome, and honestly, we love when they come. Many mamas even have us check baby while they're here, since caring for the two of you together is a big part of what we do. Come as you are, baby and all.

  • We do, and it's one of our favorite things. Feeding trouble is rarely about just one of you, so we ease the tension that makes nursing painful for mom and gently work with baby's body too, including tension around tongue and lip ties. Caring for you both together is often what finally helps feeding feel easier.

  • Warm, calm, and made for mamas. From the moment you walk in, you're welcomed with complimentary healing teas, fresh organic lactation cookies, and a community of mamas walking the same road. It's a space to slow down and be cared for, not one more stressful errand.

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We would love to support you, mama.

Your first visit blends comfort with expert, professional care. We begin with a gentle assessment while we get to know you, your birth story, and how you're feeling in your body right now.

From there, we explain each step before moving into soft, gentle care tailored to exactly what you and your baby need. Many mamas are surprised how calm and unhurried it feels, and how much lighter and more supported they walk out than they came in.

However recent your birth, this is a space to slow down, feel cared for, and let your body begin to heal, so you can feel more like yourself again in new motherhood.

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