Postpartum Care at Home
The first 40 days after birth are a time for warmth, food, rest, and tending.
The early weeks after birth are a tender and formative time. Your body is healing from pregnancy, labour, and birth while also learning the rhythms of feeding, sleep, recovery, and caring for a newborn.
Postpartum acupuncture care brings treatment to your home during this early window, when tending to yourself should not require dashing to appointments.
In Traditional East Asian Medicine, postpartum is a time to protect the body, rebuild qi and blood, support digestion, settle the nervous system, and restore warmth and strength. It is also a time with the potential for deep transformation — a window where good care can support not only immediate recovery, but your health beyond the postpartum phase.
What postpartum acupuncture may support
Postpartum care is tailored to your symptoms, recovery, and health needs. Treatment may support:
physical recovery after birth
pelvic, back, hip, neck, shoulder, or wrist pain
C-section scar healing support
afterpains or uterine cramping
fatigue, depletion, and low energy
sleep disruption and nervous system regulation
night sweats or temperature changes
digestion, appetite, constipation, or loose stools
lactation and feeding-related concerns
headaches
mood, anxiety, overwhelm, or emotional steadiness
general postpartum rebuilding and replenishment
A focused care series
This care works best as a focused series. A common rhythm is four visits within the first 40 days postpartum, with treatment adjusted to your recovery, presenting symptoms, and capacity that day.
Because in-home postpartum care requires dedicated space in my schedule, I ask clients to book the full four-visit care series when possible. This helps create continuity of care and ensures that I can hold time for you during an important season for care.
There is no prepayment required. Each visit is billed individually after treatment has been provided.
What happens in a visit
Postpartum visits are 45–90 minutes, depending on your needs and capacity that day. This allows enough time for treatment, conversation, feeding or settling the baby, and adapting care to the realities of postpartum life.
Treatment may include acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, and simple home-care guidance for you or your partner to continue between visits.
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Food Therapy Add-On
In the early postpartum weeks, being fed is one of the most practical forms of care.
The Food Therapy Add-On offers simple, warm, postpartum-focused nourishment brought with your in-home acupuncture visit. These provisions are prepared with the recovery of the birthing parent in mind: nutrient-dense, easy to digest, grounding, replenishing, and supportive of rebuilding qi and blood after pregnancy and birth.
Each drop-off is adapted to your health needs, dietary requirements, and culinary preferences. The focus is not on feeding the whole household, but on making sure the person who has just given birth has nourishing food close at hand.
A typical weekly drop-off includes approximately four days of bone broth, four days of a warm satiating meal, and a nourishing sweet treat that is easy to grab when you need something simple.
Food Therapy is available as an optional add-on for clients receiving in-home postpartum acupuncture. It is billed separately from acupuncture and is not billed as acupuncture treatment.
Pricing
Postpartum acupuncture visit:
$185 per visit ($740 for one-month of care)
Food Therapy Add-On:
$145 per weekly drop-off
*Acupuncture visits are covered by most insurance providers; Food Therapy Add-On is not eligible for insurance coverage.
Examples of Food Therapy Support
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Bone Broths
A slow-simmered, deeply savoury broth made to sip throughout the week or add to simple foods you already have at home. Broth is included as a separate provision — not as the meal itself — so you have something warm, mineral-rich, and replenishing available between meals.
Depending on your needs and preferences, broths may be prepared with chicken, beef, or other nourishing ingredients, with additions such as ginger, scallion, herbs, seaweed, red dates, goji berries, or warming spices.
Examples include: red date and goji chicken bone broth, or ginger and beef broth.
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Nourishing Meals
A warm, satisfying meal prepared to be easy to reheat, easy to digest, and deeply nourishing. These meals are designed to offer steady replenishment through soft grains, slow-cooked proteins, legumes, cooked vegetables, warming spices, and restorative flavours.
Meals are adapted to your health needs, appetite, dietary requirements, and culinary preferences. The emphasis is on food that feels grounding, comforting, and generous without being heavy or difficult to digest.
Examples include: chicken congee with ginger and scallion, beef or lamb stew with root vegetables, red lentil dal with warming spices, braised lentils with roasted squash, warm orzo with vegetables and herbs, or sesame ginger noodles in broth.
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Sweet Supports
Simple, nourishing sweets made to be easy to grab when you need something between feeds, don’t have the energy for any preparation, or simply desire a treat. These are focused on providing energy, comfort, and replenishment.
Examples include: tahini date bites, black sesame rice balls, oat and molasses cookies, stewed apples with cinnamon and ginger, almond butter cocoa bites, sesame honey bars, or spiced rice pudding.