Postpartum Care
The Sacred Window
The first 40 days following birth marks a radical precious transition that cradles a mothers need for rest and rejuvenation. A woven space and time to strengthen the māmās armour.
From the waters of our puna, the wellspring of our ancient mātauranga,
Our tūpuna/ancestors honoured the many layers a māmā sacrificed journeying to the stars and back to bring her uri/newborn earth-side.
Our iwi/villages would celebrate and gather in communion to nurture, dance, sing, pray feed, warm, and korowai thy Mother in her most vulnerable tapu state. Allowing her to nestle into her healing cocoon to bond in synergy with her uri.
In modern westernised society, our Mothers often are grappled with the expectations of swiftly bouncing back straight after giving birth, navigating a realm of physical and emotional challenges that can lead to all sorts of imbalances ~ Postpartum depression, disconnection with their uri, themselves and extended whānau all whilst feeling so alone.
Yet when we embrace the commitment to prepare for our own healing and self nurturance, Acknowledging this is your sacred rite of passage passed from mother to mother, sister to sister, womb to womb. We are then able to open an internal invitation to experience and embark on a deep act of self reverence and self love to tend to the well-being of ourselves.
Mothers who are held with rested bodies, grounded bones, and nourished in warm love is what our loved ones will receive.
Mothering the Mother Kete
A heartfelt fusion of traditional sacred offerings of loving warmth & life giving nourishment tending to our Mothers and your whānau as a whole.
Our intention is to lovingly support you and your whānau to a more gentle landing. Invoking a holistic blend of natural resources and remedies encompassing your unique hauora needs woven to suit the ebb and flows of you and your tribe.
These nourishing practices may look like
Offering traditional mātauranga māori birthing and after care practices to keep you and your uri safe/grounded.
Karakia, takutaku incantations, birthing oriori, and tikanga.
Breastfeeding, lactation & sleep support, techniques to help soothe baby,
Homegrown wildcrafted organic native plant rongoā to support your healing process, internal and external remedies including caesarean, perineal tearing, breast, womb.
Preparing warm nutrient dense organic grown kai, lactation support snacks, herbal teas/ elixirs to nourish you and your whānau.
Light cleaning duties ~ changing linen, laundry, clearing dishes, setting up your bedroom space, attending to wherever is needed to create more peace and flow.
Allowing you the time and space to take a mammoth shower or long bath whilst we nurture baby.
A safe listening space for you to kōrero and share your stories, experiences, emotions, and feel lovingly heard and held.
Traditional body work aiding in recovery, reharmonizing of bones, muscles, tissues and organs. Foot soaks, wharetangata/womb herbal steaming.
Support sessions can be several hours over a few weeks, or a few hours spread over several weeks. Our commitment is to create an extended lifeline for your village, tending to the whispers of your wairua, inner rhythms, honouring your sacred window and the song lines of Motherhood.
We invite you to an open call or aligning kanohi ki te kanohi ( face to face ) to feel energetically how we can weave together harmoniously.
Postpartum Māmā Kete
Delivered full of vibrant rich blood building, slow warming, nutrient dense easily to digest kai rongoā & native plant medicine.
These nourishing kete include a nutritional sustenance meal to cater up to a whānau of six.
~ Spelt, honey, hemp banana loaf
~ Rongoā spiced lentil curry & quinoa packed with minerals, vitamins, collagen, antioxidants
~ Coconut protein lactation support tahini honey bliss balls
~ Ghee & almond butter stuffed medjool dates + midnight snacks
~ Mama nurture love support herbal tea
~ Hineteiwaiwa uku womb balm
Such deep reverence we hold to honour your sacred season and gently nourish those who nurture
Energetic exchange ~ $150
Every postpartum māmā kete purchased will provide funds for another māmā to receive in need. We are fiercely dedicated to the vital essence of connection and compassionate communion of our whānau feeling supported.
Koha/ donations
for Māmās & whānau
Ūkaipō Native Apothecaries hold a deep reverence and respect to the profound opening and expansion of Motherhood. We hold this kaupapa close to our hearts understanding the pivotal need for nurturing care, and tender loving acts every māmā and whānau deserves. As this kaupapa of ours will be operating under a non profit charitable trust, we believe No māmā should feel excluded to face this journey alone due to insufficient funds or difficult situations.
We extend an invitation for any supported funding, donations, koha for kai, jars, baskets, rongoā supplies for all mothers to receive and have access to these services.
