From within the small yet growing body of research focused upon CAM use for pregnancy [2,5], the majority has examined pregnant women’s use of discrete supplements or treatments and, despite recommendations [23,24], there has been little exploration of women’s consultations with CAM practitioners. One exception is a recent longitudinal cohort study (n=535) [7] which identified no significant change in this prevalence rate over a 10 year period compared with non-pregnant women. Unfortunately, this recent work does not discern the prevalence of pregnant women’s use of specific types of CAM practitioners or examine the patterns of pregnant women’s consultations with.
