Health care
BY DACIA GARCIA
O erings include chiropractic care, postpartum rehabilitation, massages, hormone balancing and more.
Patients can bring their children during appointments to ease the stress of nding child care, founder Katherine Melot said.
PHOTOS COURTESY BIRTHCO. CHIROPRACTIC + WELLNESS
BirthCo. shapes nurturing, inclusive space for families
The business o ers services for mothers, fathers, children and babies.
From o ering services for all family members to playing with babies during mothers’ appoint- ments, BirthCo. Chiropractic + Wellness cultivates a supportive space for mothers and children to receive care for multiple conditions in one session. The backstory Founder Katherine Melot, who has a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, was rst introduced to the chiropractic world in her childhood when her brother saw positive results from chiropractic treatment for his epilepsy. “They started seeing this chiropractor ... and my brother was able to get o all his medications and stopped having seizures within about six months of that,” Melot said. “I knew immediately that I wanted to do that for other families.” In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Melot saw the need for health care spaces where patients could feel comfortable bringing their children in during their personal appointments. “It’s a very exible style of environment for moms to come to to get some of the services that they might not be able to get otherwise because they don’t have child care or they don’t have the time to jump to four di erent places to get these four di erent services,” Melot said. What they o er The business o ers four core services: chiro- practic care, core and pelvic oor rehabilitation,
massage therapy and hormone balancing. Mas- sages include prenatal massage, postnatal mas- sage, Swedish massage, lymphatic ow massage, deep tissue massage and labor prep massage. While the business has a primary focus on prenatal and pediatric care, Melot said all family members are welcome to seek care at the centers. The impact Melot has a memory bank of all her interactions with patients. She recalls one full-circle moment when a patient decided to attend massage school after feeling the impact from the center’s services for over a year. “She said, ‘Hey, I just signed up for massage school because you guys, your services and your environment and the relationships that I built here, they impacted me so positively that I decided I want to do that for other people,’” Melot said. Looking forward With ve locations in the Austin metro area, Melot hopes to keep growing the company to pro- vide resources for patients beyond Central Texas. “We’ve extended very quickly and I feel pas- sionate that every mom should have access to the services that we o er to the community that we’ve built and my goal would be that we could grow BirthCo. to be all over the U.S. and maybe even past that,” Melot said.
Founder Katherine Melot opened the rst BirthCo. Chiropractic + Wellness location in Southwest Austin.
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