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Postpartum body

Traditional Mexican Postpartum Care

Forty days of postpartum doula care inspired by the Mexican tradition of La Cuarentena — supporting you as you recover, care for your baby and find your way into this new stage of motherhood.

After birth, so much attention naturally moves towards the baby. In the Mexican tradition of La Cuarentena, the mother also remains someone who needs to be deliberately cared for during the first forty days.

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My postpartum care brings this tradition into life in Copenhagen today, combining postpartum and breastfeeding knowledge with traditional Mexican ways of caring for the mother after birth. For forty days, I stay in contact with you and visit you at home, supporting both your transition into life with your baby and your own recovery.

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How I care for you during the forty days

Each visit makes space for two areas of care: what you are navigating with your baby, and how you are recovering and adjusting yourself.

You and your baby

Every visit begins with what is happening now. We can talk through breastfeeding or feeding, newborn care, your baby's behaviour, something you don't yet feel confident doing, questions about parenting, or simply something that has been worrying you since we last spoke.

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I can observe, explain, show you and practise with you, helping you understand what is happening and find what works for your family. The aim is for you to feel increasingly confident understanding and caring for your baby yourselves.

Care for you

Then attention comes back to you.​ We check in with your physical recovery, how you are feeling, your birth experience and the questions that have appeared as you adjust to postpartum.

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Part of each visit is also dedicated to caring for your body. Depending on where you are in your recovery, this can include postpartum massage, belly care and binding, herbal remedies, rebozo techniques and other traditional forms of postpartum care.

The Stages of postpartum care

While support around your baby responds to what is happening at that moment, care for your body follows a gentle progression through the cuarentena.

RECOVER
The first days are about giving your body time to recover.
Our first visit is usually around the end of the first week, when your body has only recently given birth and life with your baby is still very new.
The physical care is deliberately gentle. We can focus on postpartum massage, belly care and introduce belly binding when appropriate, while also making space to talk through your birth, your recovery and everything that has happened during those first days.
RESTORE
As your recovery progresses, the care can gradually deepen.
During the following weeks, we can introduce more of the traditional postpartum care I bring into our visits. This may include rebozo techniques, postpartum massage, herbal care and belly binding, always adapted to how your body is recovering and what feels appropriate for you.
RETURN
Little by little, you begin finding your own rhythm again.
By this stage, some things may feel more familiar. You know your baby better, feeding may be finding its rhythm and the questions are often different from those of the first days.
Rebozo, herbs and body care continue to create intentional time for you, while we make space for how you are feeling in your body, in your new everyday life and in yourself.
EVOLVE
The cuarentena comes to an end, but your transition continues.
Around the end of the forty days, we complete our time together with a traditional Mexican Closing Ceremony.
Through cacao, herbal care, massage and rebozo, we intentionally mark the end of this immediate postpartum period and acknowledge what your body and your life have moved through.
The ceremony is not about returning you to who you were before birth. It marks one threshold in the much longer journey of matrescence — the continuing process of becoming and evolving as a mother.

Practical information

40 Days of Postpartum Care

7,000 DKK

Three private postpartum care visits (2-hrs each aproximately)
Ongoing contact throughout the forty days
Postpartum care/materials used during visits
Traditional Mexican Closing Ceremony

Good to know before booking:

When to book
I recommend arranging your postpartum care during the last weeks of pregnancy. This gives me time to prepare for your cuarentena and the care and materials I may bring into our visits.
If your baby has already arrived, you can still contact me. Depending on your baby's age and my availability, we can see whether the forty-day support still fits where you are in your postpartum.
When we begin
Our first visit is usually around the end of the first week after birth. From there, we arrange the following visits across your first forty days, adapting the timing to your recovery and what is happening for you and your baby.
At your home
The visits take place in your own home, so you and your baby do not need to travel during these early weeks. I primarily work in Copenhagen and surrounding areas. If you live further away, contact me and we can see what is possible.
What this support includes
This is mother-centred postpartum care, with support for breastfeeding or feeding, newborn-care questions and your transition into life with your baby, alongside dedicated care for your own recovery.
It is not a household-help or childcare service, so visits do not include cleaning, cooking, errands or extended care of your baby while you sleep or attend to other things.

Ready to reach out?

Tell me your due date and a little about what you are looking for during your postpartum. I’ll get back to you so we can check availability and arrange your care.

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Not sure if this is the right support for you? We can also have a free 15-minute discovery call before you decide.

I do recommend Lili as a postpartum doula a lot! Lili helped me a lot as a postpartum doula. I was about to drop breastfeeding because of the huge pain which I was suffering every time when the baby would breastfeed. But Lili with her knowledge and positive approach helped me to solve this problem! I enjoyed a lot talking with her about birth experience and with Mexican rituals she helped me to get rid of any regrets and bad emotions which I had after giving birth.

What clients say...

- Diana

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