Postpartum Care at Home

The first 40 days after birth are a time for warmth, food, rest, and tending.

Postpartum acupuncture care brings treatment to your home during the early weeks after birth, when leaving the house can feel like too much.

In Traditional East Asian Medicine, this is a time to protect the body, rebuild qi and blood, support digestion, settle the nervous system, and help the body recover from the work of pregnancy, labour, and birth.

This care works best as a short series. A common rhythm is three visits within the first 40 days postpartum, with treatment adjusted to your recovery, symptoms, capacity, and support at home.

Because in-home postpartum care requires dedicated space in my schedule, I ask clients to book the full three-visit care series when possible. This helps create continuity of care and ensures that I can hold time for you. There is no prepayment required, and each visit is billed individually after treatment has been provided.

Postpartum visits are 45–90 minutes, depending on what is needed 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. Care may support pain, fatigue, feeding-related tension, digestion, sleep, night sweats, mood, and general postpartum depletion.

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Kind words from Clients

“Hélène creates a cozy and welcoming atmosphere where I feel safe to share what’s going on with me and what I need. Hélène is able to meet me where I’m at and help me work towards health goals that are realistic for my life. In our many sessions, she has alleviated a wide variety of symptoms, stopped flares in their tracks and brought me to a feeling of groundedness. This practice has been invaluable to me. For anyone looking to care for their health in a holistic, practical and approachable way - I highly recommend working with Hélène!”

~ D.H.

“Hélène’s treatments are amongst the best I’ve experienced in 8 years of receiving acupuncture. She takes her time and somehow makes even the most sensitive points feel good! Her ability to attune to and assess my energy was palpable and the results have been transformative.”

~ C.L.

What to expect from a session

  • Acupuncture

    Acupuncture gently stimulates the body’s natural healing processes using fine needles placed at specific points. It promotes balance, reduces pain, and supports overall wellness. 

  • Bodywork/acupressure

    Using touch and pressure instead of needles, acupressure targets key points on the body to release tension, improve circulation, and restore energy flow.

  • Cupping

    Cupping therapy uses suction to enhance circulation, relieve muscle tension, and encourage the body’s natural detoxification processes.

  • Moxibustion

    This warming technique involves burning moxa (dried mugwort) near the skin to invigorate energy, improve circulation, and strengthen the body’s defenses.

  • Food therapy & lifestyle practices

    Guidance on simple lifestyle & dietary adjustments to nourish the body, restore balance, and support long-term health.

  • Time just for you

    A space free of judgment to share your unique experience, explore health goals, and connect to your body’s inner wisdom. Treatments are tailored with a combination of the listed techniques based on what would be most supportive of your health concerns.