Nourishing Postpartum Care

The quality of nourishment and support you receive during your first 42 days postpartum affects your health for the following 42 years.

Each birth is a transformative experience, and each time you birth your body, mind, and spirit need the loving care and support of your family and community.

I would be honored to be a part of your healing postpartum window.

I am currently only serving families in Nevada County and the immediate neighboring areas (within 30 minutes of Grass Valley). 

If you live outside of this area, please search for Ayurvedic postpartum doulas or Innate Postpartum Providers in your area via these directories or search directly for your specific region.

Ayurvedic Doula Packages

Whether this is your first baby or your fifth, you will need support emotionally and physically as you learn to listen to your baby and attend to their needs and your own. As a postpartum doula, I act as a support person dedicated to easing your transition into parenthood and providing support and guidance along the journey.

Each day of care consists of 5-6+ hours of support per day which includes some or all of the following: 

  • Initial Intake and Consultation

  • Pre-due date Home Tour

  • 1-hour warm oil Nourishing Mama Massage (in-home) with Herbal Bath and/or Herbal Steam in a steam tent.

  • Ayurvedic Nutrition and Cooking: nourishing meals, snacks, and beverages appropriate for you and your family (based upon your digestion, elimination, and the state of your healing) 

  • Herbal Support for breastfeeding, digestive, elimination, colic, eczema, tissue healing, emotional support, and special conditions as they arise

  • Emotional Support through listening and helping to facilitate the processing of postpartum emotions

  • Belly Wrapping Instruction to support the internal organs and lower back

  • Self Massage Instruction

  • Infant Massage Instruction

  • Breastfeeding Guidance

  • Infant Support

  • Lifestyle Guidance

  • Grocery Shopping

  • Light House Cleaning

  • Additional Body Work as needed (Moxibustion, Closing of the Bones, belly wrapping, castor oil packs, Marma Massage)

  • Referrals as needed for birthing persons to receive care and treatment for overall well-being and health

  • Additional Support within my scope of practice and within the constraints of the time I have available​. 

$275- $350/day (sliding scale)

$30-$40/hour without body work (sliding scale)

Ayurvedic Postpartum Care packages can be tailored to suit you and your family’s needs, traditions, and postpartum desires.

I am currently available for in-person care Monday through Friday, and sometimes on Saturday or Sunday from 8:30am-2:30pm. 

Client Experience

“She is most attentive and works from a place of passion and true care for the whole family…”

“I so recommend Ashlee as a birth [and] postpartum, doula. I've had the pleasure to receive her care for both of these life events.

She is most attentive and works from a place of passion and true care for the whole family.

I felt safe and supported, loved as by a dear friend throughout the process of (planning for) my son's birth and postpartum recovery. My son Leon was born, what are the odds; on Ashlee's birthday. October 14th. So she spent her own birthday holding me in her arms until my son was born.

Her presence was tremendously helpful. I felt very safe with her touch, she knew just how to put the right pressure on my low back with warm cloths during labour. I wouldn't have known what to do without her gentle, calm, reassuring voice.

I’m forever grateful for her postpartum care. She brought food to the hospital (we had a scheduled hospital birth) cooked a delicious soup for us on the first day home and helped my husband and I settle into parenthood. What a journey! Ashlee truly sees magic there and that's just contagious. She's very positive and reassuring.

There's an additional option for ayurvedic Abhyanga massage that she offers, with warm oils and she brings a sauna tent that she'll put over the massage table. Take that option! :-)

Wow, for me this was such a blessing after birth, releasing the tension from my body, all the muscles from birth and the new breastfeeding and babyholding-neck tensions. I feel that only after that first massage I 'landed' back into my body and could relax profoundly. It was like I slept 12 hrs.

I can't thank Ashlee enough for everything she did for us! I love how she made sure my husband also knew what postpartum care looks like and what to expect. This helped us as a couple navigate the changes and challenges much better.

Ashlee is very knowledgeable and well-connected. When 1 month into breastfeeding I started to have severe nipple pain, she (and lactation specialist Katie Damota) was able to diagnose a rare condition I had at one glance, which medical doctors did not. Thanks to her and Katie I was able to heal that.

I’m forever grateful and do warmly recommend Ashlee to every mama-to-be.”

–Lili, Francisco, and baby Leon 🌿

Holistic Maternal Care for All

To ensure every client has access to the care they need, I offer a variety of payment plans and exchange programs.

I am also a Medi-Cal approved provider for prenatal and postpartum support. 

Learn more about insurance here.

If you are interested in the services I provide, please call me at (530) 333-5324.