
Uponyaji
(oo-pohn-yah-JEE)
Swahili for "to heal"
The art of sacred postpartum support
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Partum Me, Honey Services​​
(In Home Postpartum Vaginal or Cesarean Healing )
Holistic heart centered lactation support enhanced with oxytocin filled postpartum care services that provide comprehensive support to new mothers during the postpartum period, addressing their physical, emotional, and mental well-being that accompany breastfeeding or pumping. Lactation is a whole body feeding act of a mother too, which can lead to not only pain, but overwhelm and resonate all over the body from nipples, to breasts, to abdominal muscles to the uterus. These services often combine traditional postpartum care with complementary alternative services to support the mother’s recovery, well-being and milk supply. When mothers are good, so are their babees. We hold the mother while she holds her babee.
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Honey BEE Latched - Lactation Support
One-on-one support and guidance to address any breastfeeding concerns or challenges you may encounter. Whether it's troubleshooting latch issues, managing engorgement, or navigating mastitis, tethered oral tissues, we're here to help you overcome obstacles and achieve your breastfeeding goals.​​
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Sweet Milk & Oxytocin - Lactation Massage
Evidence-based therapeutic breast massage using gentle, light strokes to relieve engorgement, plugged ducts, and mastitis by improving lymphatic flow and milk drainage, reducing inflammation, pain, and achy breasts unlike deep massage which can increase it. Strokes encourage oxytocin production which helps milk flow.
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Baby BEE Soothed - Infant Massage
​​​A nurturing and therapeutic experience using gentle touch, rhythmic strokes, and calming techniques to support your babee’s digestion, sleep, bonding, and body awareness. Designed for newborns through crawling age, this service blends evidence-based massage instruction with intuitive bodywork to relieve common discomforts like latching, gas, colic, and tension.​​​​
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Honey BEE Wrapped - Belly Binding
​​​​​Holistic postpartum belly binding support is a specialized service designed to provide physical support, emotional comfort, and holistic healing during the postpartum period to help new mothers recover and restore balance after childbirth. Binding provides postural support providing stability and comfort to lactating mothers. ​
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Honey BEE Still - Cloth Massage
This in-home postpartum visit is a deeply restorative experience designed to honor and support your healing journey after birth. Rooted in traditional care practices, this session offers warmth, grounding, and gentle rocking with a birth shawl for the body to co-regulate the nervous system with calm and relaxation driving the hormone oxytocin for milk flow.​
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Sweet Milk & Soles - Herbal Foot Soak
A calming warm foot soak infused with healing herbs, coconut milk, and essential oils. This ritual soothes tired feet, calms the nervous system, and sets a sacred tone for postpartum restoration. ​​
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WORK WITH ME
Guided by Expertise.
Rooted in Cultural Care.
​As a TOTs savvy Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, Full Spectrum Doula, Certified Community Maternal Child Health Worker, and trained International Infant Massage Educator, I bring healing rooted in African and diasporic healing traditions. I teach you how to read your babee's cues and co-regulate through therapeutic touch, rhythmic movement and mindful connection. Yes, with infant massage and lactation services combined--your feeding and postpartum journey can transition more smoothly.
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