Traditional Care for Motherhood



Birth. Postpartum. The first forty days.

Ascension House is a private practice devoted to tending women through the threshold of motherhood.

Rooted in traditional postpartum wisdom, the work centers what modern postpartum culture often forgets:

the mother.

Warmth. Nourishment. Rest. Ritual. Presence.

Ways to Be Tended

Private care through birth and the weeks that follow

  • THE BIRTH CONTAINER

    Pregnancy · Birth · Early Postpartum

    Private doula care beginning in pregnancy and continuing through birth and the first days postpartum.

  • THE CUARENTENA

    The First Forty Days

    Six weeks of private postpartum care centered around warmth, nourishment, rest and tending.

NOURISH / WARM / STEAM / CLOSE.

  • NOURISH

    Postpartum Nourishment

    warming foods, tea and restorative tending.

  • WARM

    Moxa Warming Ritual

    Traditional warmth offered as a quite restorative practice.

  • STEAM

    Postpartum Steam Ritual

    Herbal warmth, privacy and time to reconnect with the body

  • CLOSE

    Closing The Bones Ceremony

    wrapping, rest and intentional care honoring the transition into motherhood.

THE CUERENTENA

The First Forty Days

The first forty days after birth have long been understood as a time apart - a period in which the mother is protected, warmed, nourished and tended to.

The Cuarentena is six weeks of private postpartum care offered within the home, creating the conditions for a mother to rest while she is cared for.

Warm meals and teas. Quiet tending. Traditional warming practices. Gentle support within the home. Space for sleep, feeding, bonding and simply being.

Care is shaped around the mother, her home and the particular season of postpartum she is moving through.


Private care begins at $3,500.

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Meet Maria Christina

Founder of Ascension House

My work has always begun with the body -the way we dress it, the environments we create around it, and the rituals through which we care for it.

My own passage through motherhood changed the direction of that work.

What I experienced personally led to a deeper inquiry into the ways women have traditionally been tended through pregnancy, birth and postpartum - across cultures, generations and lineages of care.

Over the years, that inquiry became a serious practice of study: traditional postpartum customs, nourishment, warmth, rest, ritual, the home as a place of recovery, and the profound importance of tending to the mother while she tends to new life.

Some of what I discovered echoed things I had experienced intuitively in my own healing. Other traditions revealed ways of caring for women that felt almost absent from modern motherhood.

Ascension House grew from the desire to preserve and offer what I found most meaningful - not to recreate another time, but to bring its wisdom into the way women are cared for now.

My philosophy is simple

mother the mother.

Begin Your Return

This work is offered by application

Each woman is received individually to ensure alignment and preserve the depth, presence and integrity of the container.

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