The Support
a few options are outlined below
In home traditional postpartum care & bodywork $130/1.5 hrs
Includes warm, home crafted herbal beverages such as nettles/chamomile/elderberry tea & meat stock (a sippable broth or cooking broth for you to decide)
Options for traditional postpartum care might include: heart to heart conversations on how you’re doing, birth story sharing, vaginal steaming, sitz bath, heating therapies, appropriate breathework, gentle core engagement, gentle stretches, led rest, body-wrapping, closing of the bones
Options for bodywork include: CranioSacral Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™, external pelvic care,
body-rocking, gentle massage, moxibustion, scar tissue remediation, led cesarian scar therapy
Options for energy work: Holistic Pelvic Care™ can support birth trauma repair and pregnancy loss support
In home traditional postpartum care, bodywork + food $200/2 hrs-2.5hrs
The main difference with option 2 is the addition of nourishing foods that are for the mother / birthing person, that are meant to aid in recovery and assist in making the mother feel nourished both physically and mentally.
Food is sourced to be organic, local and grass fed.
A typical food delivery includes an herbal tea, bone broth, a congee, vegetable dish, stew/soup, a meat dish (it is possible to receive vegetarian/vegan care, although I practice animal fat & animal protein as important for postpartum care). This will last 2-3 days depending on how quickly you are going through it.
Options for traditional postpartum care might include: heart to heart conversations on how you’re doing, birth story sharing, vaginal steaming, sitz bath, heating therapies, appropriate breathework, gentle core engagement, gentle stretches, led rest, body-wrapping, closing of the bones
Options for bodywork include: CranioSacral Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™, external pelvic care,
body-rocking, gentle massage, moxibustion.
Office visits for bodywork, postpartum care or ceremony, prices vary - see “schedule” tab
The main difference with these offerings is that they are a more uninterrupted time for bodywork. Babies are of course welcome to come.
Options for traditional postpartum care might include: heart to heart conversations on how you’re doing, birth story sharing, vaginal steaming, sitz bath, heating therapies, appropriate breathework, gentle core engagement, gentle stretches, led rest, body-wrapping, closing of the bones
Options for bodywork include: CranioSacral Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™, external pelvic care,
body-rocking, gentle massage, moxibustion, scar tissue remediation,
Options for energy work: Holistic Pelvic Care™ can support birth trauma repair and pregnancy loss support
If you’re ready to schedule, please email me directly for availability: Miranda.Knox@gmail.com and/or for office visits you are welcome to check the online “schedule” tab above.
meeting prenatally, if possible
My support is meant to set you up as the center of your home & the driver or your care & parenting. It is helpful for us to meet while you are still pregnant. If you find my postpartum, then, we can make that work too.
During this initial prenatal home visit I offer (options to meet at my office space, your home, a local coffee shop or out for a walk):
Prenatal Bodywork: Prenatal Massage &/or CranioSacral Therapy
Prenatal Yoga: group classes or private sessions (see schedule tab)
Planning for the 4th Trimester Workshop: Learn in community (or small group), with your main partner in raising your child, how to prepare for making your immediate postpartum a time for deep healing & long lasting health for the birthing person.
We may only have time for meeting over tea/coffee if that’s what is works best for you.
I also specialize in postpartum care for women who have gone through birthing hardship &/or pregnancy loss - to bring healing practices to those experiences.
why I support families
I didn’t know that becoming a mother would require great change within. I didn’t know I would have to be held in order to grieve the loss of my old life and need to be held as I fumbled into a new season of life. Instead, I found a gap in modern, maternal healthcare and the places where I did not take charge of my own livelihood. I knew I could cocreate a bridge for this gap and give a voice to this common experience. The systems on the nuclear families was not enough.
I was not aware of the blueprint that lives within mothers to thrive but I have since been taught how nature has intended for women to be supported. Additionally, my body was a new terrain and needed assistance. I found some incredible support from Women’s Health PTs specializing in pelvic health, but I needed more. I needed my whole being to be seen; my body & mind were unraveling like the way my body was stretched in pregnancy- to its limits. Then, I was guided to the training of Innate Traditions Postpartum Care with Rachelle Garcia Seliga CPM and it was then that I found my answers. Her body of work gave me the tools and knowledge to remember why I am here, what mothers need and what matters most to me.
These needs of a new parent are common across cultures. A mother needs to be centered, honored and taken care of. This provides the gift of presence- which in turn allows a women’s natural physiology to heal and bond with the new child. The initial postpartum time is a sacred window for a woman’s hormones to rebalance and for her oxytocin to thrive. In this oxytocin bubble a mother and child can lay imprints of bonding that will have positive impacts for lifetimes. I do not agree with the pathologizing that occurs when a mother endures emotional turmoil. Emotions are messages that change is needed and deserve to be heard. Often our emotional distress is telling us that the new parent is undersupported- and that reaction is a normal reaction to an unhealthy society. If we want our children to prosper in health and joy, then look to the mothers and what their needs are. If the mothers are well, then our children can follow that path.