Specialties

Care Services

TheModels of Care we believe in.

  • The natural gynecology model of care is integrative and looks at sexual and reproductive health through the lens of whole-person healing. It helps people understand and address the systems of influences and imbalances that create their symptoms, conditions, or complaints and raises prevention and relief from our bodily self-knowledge in accompaniment with traditional medicine, in addition to connecting to our basic ancestral practices. The result is natural, gentle, and non-invasive treatments to support healthy functioning.

  • The Midwifery Model of Care honors a person's expertise, life experiences, community, and historical knowledge, focusing on the individual within the context of their community, providing the type of holistic care that pregnant people most need. This includes providing individualized education, counseling, and evidenced-based care, with continuous hands-on assistance, monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the person as a whole, minimizing technological interventions, and identifying and referring those who require diverse attention recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary, collaborative care.

  • The Wellness Model of Care combined with a political and culturally grounded Healing Centered Engagement advances a collective view of healing, and re-centers culture as a central feature in well-being. It recognizes the right of people to recover and be well, the ability for people to make choices for their lives that support greater health, safety, and well-being, that people are inherently whole at the deepest level of their being, and the path to wellness is the journey of discovering and expressing this wholeness. It also views healing as the restoration of identity and recognizes that the intuitive sense is powerful when combined with information and all available resources to make informed choices. We honor that the key to wellness is kindness, gentleness, and a non-judgmental stance toward self and others. We cannot push ourselves or other people into wellness, we can only offer hope.

  • A santigüo and/or a sobo (traditional massage), is a spiritual folk medicine healing practice from the mountains of Puerto Rico that incorporates praying, herbs, teas, deep massage, herbs’ baths, and nourishment. It is a model from our families passed from generation to generation, and supplements in a spiritual way, every kind of care a person receives. El Santigüo, or La Mano Santa (healing hand) proudly runs in the maternal lineage of the women of my family.

  • Natural medicine and Comadronas are part of our ancestral heritage, they belong to our history and our people, it is our legacy and we owe so much to our ancestors. Plants are our family, as our community is to us. However, we have learned from experience, that the vital energy that a medicinal plant has is useless if we are not connected with our process. We are here to support closing that gap.

Our model of care

It combines them all and is expansive by transcending beyond birth, and recognizing that individuals experience many outcomes and experiences around their sexual and reproductive health and pregnancy journeys. Parteras, we are here for the fullest of their journeys.

Our Practice

It does not invalidate the benefits of allopathic medicine in terms of precise or preventive gynecological consultations and midwifery expansive care, but we rather see it as a resistance to regain active participation in our individual and collective health reclaiming unapologetically; that we are the experts of our bodies!

In Montuna we understand that the process is not linear, and we need support and accompaniment at times. To recover our bodies we want to lead and support our communities to the right to self-taught bodily literacy in basic sexual-reproductive preventive health. We want to provide these tools to our communities for you to be involved in your self-knowledge and to share it forward collectively and responsibly. This is how we are weaving the path to the power of our collective healing.

Cycles of Care

All our services are Trauma-Informed, culturally competent focused, Grief-Loss, and Diversity-centered. Please read the statement of who we are at the bottom of this page. Each cycle of care has a different set of skills, care, and educational approaches. You can choose a direct service that has for example a preparation of meals and use of herbal management or comfort measures options, as well as a care service that can lead you to want a series of classes for your community. All services can be combined into a package based on your needs.

Look into each of these below to find out the best we can help you with care and coaching, education, or else. All our services have a component of Companions Training. These are classes to support people interested in supporting others with the same services we offer. We can help you, but we can also help your community continue supporting others as we did. That is our proposal for collective healing! Let’s create a plan!

100% of the money we collect through our services goes directly to community initiatives, education, and care services at our community projects in isolated communities in Puerto Rico, especially at rural communities in San Lorenz0, P.R. When you hire us, you are supporting these beautiful causes!

Our Services

  • Sexual Health

    We focus on helping individuals understand their bodies and the way it responds to their history, their way to find pleasure, as well as to understand their traumas. We offer trauma-informed care as well as handled with a feminist, gentle, body-sex positive, and diversity of ability approach. Some of our services are:

    Sexual Health individual coaching

    Somatics and bodywork to support healing sexual traumas.

    Pleasure and self exploration

    Pelvic care

    Traditional sobos

    Reiki energy work.

  • Postpartum Care

    We acknowledge the importance of a wellness model of care to mood and emotional well-being; infant care and feeding; sexuality, contraception, and birth spacing; nourishment of the healing body, sleep, and fatigue; physical recovery from birth; and health maintenance in the most holistic way and honoring the cultural and individual needs and specifics.

    Some services are:

    Our traditional sobos

    Curentena latine cultural practice

    Nourishment and meals for your family

    Reiki energy work

    Pelvic floor herbal steams for healing

  • Fertility

    We understand the journey of conception can be challenging, stressful, even lonely, and often filled with grief. It is never a flat line. We’ve been there, and because we understand, we want to extend our hands to those in the process and the need. No one should have to go over this alone, and these services should be accessible to all people.

    The most popular services are:

    Conception and insemination monitrice care at home

    Fertility loss care

    Reiki for conception

    Fertility traditional sobos

  • Pregnancy and Birth

    Our pregnancy and birth comprehensive care is based on the Midwife Model of Care which recognizes the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the birthing person throughout the childbearing cycle. It recognizes the importance of the community, personal history, surroundings, and cultural components of this stage with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery.

    Although we are no longer supporting birth as a midwife, our role is more of Birth Coach and Monitrice Care. Our focus are pregnant people that have experienced sexual and fertility trauma.

    We offer:

    Prenatal sobos and energy work

    Prenatal and Birth Coaching

    Nourishment, and rest spaces.

    Birth Monitrice support

  • Pregnancy Loss

    We have been big advocates of the need of Doulas and Companions around any outcome and experience of pregnancy since 2009.

    Who can support with pregnancy Loss?

    Companionship is one of our most inherent ancestral practices that could benefit from training but doesn’t require a certification to exist. We want to reconnect us all with that sense of community and companionship that can transcend this idea to multiple possibilities.

    We offer Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Monitrice Care right at home where you need it.

    Traditional sobos after a loss

    Management and nourishment of all pregnancy outcomes and experiences.

    Reiki and energy work.

  • Transition of Life

    We are being louder about the work that we love doing around supporting people to transition phases of life, and the need of normalizing companionship during different stages. This is something the matriarchs of my family have been training me for since I was 0 years old, and we have been doing it naturally ever since. End-of-life support, Adoption transitions, and Menopause Monitrice support in this overly medicated society are what we all need to start healing this world.

    Some of our services most requested are:

    Gender transition monitrice care

    Adoption adaptation support (the other postpartum)

    Transition of (end) of life

    Menopause monitrice and companionship

  • Natural Gynecology

    We use natural and herbal remedies that have been proven as a substitute for chemical medications for symptomatic relief. These remedies also have a preventive and treatment use for some common diseases with low morbidity. We also promote exercises for self-examination and identification of gynecological stages for bodies that involve vaginal health, ovulation, fertility, and menstruation. Book with us if you are having challenges with menstruation management, natural family planning, checking your IUD or removing it, or recurrent vaginal infections. We offer vaginal swabs/microscope examinations.

    Some popular services are:

    Maintaining your gyne health coaching

    Health mentors community classes

    Preventive self manage care

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About Our Services

  • “Montuna (former MuMoMA) works with her heart and puts all of her knowledge into practice when providing her services. She is very dedicated, passionate, and understanding. I would definitely recommend her!”

    Isabel, Care Services 2016

  • “My experience has been a sacred and beautiful one with Jacoba. I have a virtual relationship with her and it has served me and been very healthy and healing”.

    Graciela Sanchez, Care Services, October 2019

  • “I love what Montuna stands for... A great human being, a wonderful heart and charisma. You won't be disappointed with her... I highly recommend any of her services!”

    Midwife Gina, Puerto Rico (2016)