Root Mother Wellness & Apothecary offers nonmedical, trauma-informed postpartum, pregnancy-loss, grief, herbal, educational, and ceremonial care. Services are intended to support rest, nourishment, emotional wellbeing, personal ritual, body connection, and the transition into or through postpartum life.

Depending on the offering selected, care may include:

• Postpartum companionship and emotional support

• Newborn care while the parent rests, bathes, or eats

• Light household tending related to the parent and baby

• Simple meal, tea, broth, or snack preparation

• Herbal education and personalized home-care guidance

• Preparation of herbal baths, sitz baths, foot soaks, oils, belly wraps, or other external herbal applications

• Belly wrapping and gentle external postpartum care

• Pelvic-steam education and preparation when appropriate

• Grief witnessing, guided meditation, altar work, and personal ritual

• Pregnancy-loss, abortion, miscarriage, and postpartum transition support

• Referrals to licensed healthcare, mental-health, lactation, pelvic-floor, or community providers when needs extend beyond my scope

All herbal, ceremonial, and body-centered practices are offered through informed consent. You are welcome to ask questions, request modifications, decline an offering, pause a practice, or withdraw consent at any time. No practice is required in order to receive care.

What Is Outside My Scope

I am a postpartum doula, folk herbalist, ceremonialist, and grief tender. I am not acting as a physician, nurse, licensed midwife, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, registered dietitian, pelvic-floor therapist, massage therapist, or other licensed medical provider.

My services do not include:

• Diagnosing, treating, curing, or preventing illness or medical conditions

• Prescribing, changing, or advising you to discontinue medication

• Medical examinations, clinical assessments, or monitoring of vital signs

• Internal pelvic examinations or internal touch

• Clinical massage, chiropractic care, or physical therapy

• Psychotherapy, crisis counseling, or treatment of mental-health conditions

• Medical lactation assessment or treatment

• Making decisions on behalf of you or your healthcare provider

• Emergency medical care

Information shared about herbs, food, steaming, oils, heat, baths, wrapping, or traditional practices is educational and supportive. It is not individualized medical advice. Recommendations may be modified or withheld when a practice appears inappropriate for your stage of healing, current symptoms, medications, allergies, pregnancy status, or medical history.

You are responsible for consulting a qualified healthcare professional before using herbs or body-care practices when pregnant, nursing, taking medication, recovering from surgery or birth, living with a medical condition, or experiencing unexplained symptoms.

Important Care Disclaimer

Root Mother’s offerings are complementary to—not a replacement for—prenatal, postpartum, reproductive, emergency, or mental-health care from licensed professionals. Booking a service does not create a medical provider-patient or therapist-client relationship.

No particular physical, emotional, spiritual, reproductive, or postpartum outcome can be guaranteed. Every person responds differently to herbs, foods, touch, heat, wrapping, meditation, and ceremonial practices. Please disclose relevant allergies, sensitivities, medications, health conditions, recent procedures, pregnancy status, medical restrictions, and changes in your wellbeing before receiving care.

Pelvic steaming is offered as a traditional wellness practice and educational service, not as a treatment for fertility, infection, menstrual disorders, postpartum complications, pregnancy loss, or other medical conditions. Steaming may be postponed or declined when there is pregnancy, active bleeding, suspected infection, unexplained pelvic pain, recent surgery or procedure, incomplete healing, fever, or another concern requiring medical guidance.

Castor oil packs, abdominal heat, herbal belly wraps, baths, oils, and belly binding are also provided only when appropriate and with your consent. These practices may not be suitable for every client or every stage of postpartum recovery.

When to Seek Medical Care

This website, its booking forms, email, and text messages are not monitored for emergencies. Contact your healthcare provider promptly when something feels unusual, concerning, or beyond the support a doula can provide.

Seek immediate medical attention for urgent symptoms such as heavy bleeding, severe or worsening abdominal pain, chest pain, trouble breathing, fainting, a persistent or severe headache, changes in vision, fever of 100.4°F or higher, severe swelling, foul-smelling discharge, or thoughts of harming yourself or your baby. Urgent pregnancy-related concerns can occur during pregnancy and for up to one year after birth.

In an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.