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Casa Matrescence

Ayurvedic Prenatal Care & Birth Threshold Support

Integrative care & support throughout pregnancy & birth.

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Prenatal care and birth threshold support with Casa Matrescence offers integrative, non-clinical support through pregnancy and birth while laying a thoughtful foundation for the early postpartum period. Pregnancy is more than the lead-up to birth, it is a time of profound physical, emotional, and relational change. Through personalized education, embodied preparation, nervous system support, partner involvement, and intentional planning, care supports your overall wellbeing while helping you prepare for the transition ahead. 


Preparing for birth is about more than creating a birth plan. Together, we explore your preferences, comfort measures, partner preparedness, postpartum transition, and the many ways labor and birth may unfold including physiological birth, medical interventions, cesarean birth, and unexpected changes. Designed to complement the care of your healthcare providers, the intention is not to prepare for one ideal outcome, but to help you feel informed, grounded, supported, and adaptable as you move through pregnancy, across the birth threshold, and into postpartum recovery and integration.

Prenatal Care & Birth Threshold Support

Ayurvedic Prenatal Care + Birth Threshold Support Signature Package | $2,950

  • 2–4 Private Prenatal Preparation & Peer Support Sessions | 2 Hours Each: Personalized prenatal sessions tailored to your needs, previous experiences, and desired level of preparation. Together, we explore labor and birth, birth preferences and contingencies, postpartum recovery, infant care and feeding, and partner involvement and preparedness. Sessions also include practical, hands-on birth preparation with comfort measures, positioning, movement, breath, relaxation, partner support techniques, and what to do when labor begins, helping you and your partner feel informed, prepared, and adaptable for the transition ahead.
  • Comprehensive Prenatal Ayurvedic Assessment + Trimester Wellness Planning: A personalized Ayurvedic assessment and trimester-based wellness plan that evolves with your pregnancy, offering individualized guidance for daily rhythm, nourishment and nutrition, rest, movement, nervous system support, and supportive self-care practices.
  • 5 Private Prenatal Yoga + Meditation Sessions | 90 Minutes Each: Five personalized 1:1 sessions supporting strength, mobility, stamina, pelvic awareness, and deeper connection to your changing body while cultivating the breath, focus, and mental resilience you can draw upon during birth. Sessions balance intentional movement with meditation, rest, and relaxation, creating space to prepare for birth while tending to your wellbeing throughout pregnancy. Partners and children are always welcome to join.
  • Pregnancy Comfort + Self-Care Practices: Personalized education in gentle practices that support comfort, body awareness, and connection throughout pregnancy and into postpartum, including guided self-Abhyanga, belly taping, and supportive wrapping or binding education when appropriate.
  • Birth Threshold Support: On-call availability beginning at 37 weeks, with continuous labor and birth support once you need me through the immediate postpartum transition. I remain with you for approximately 2–5 hours after birth to support the golden hour, early bonding, initial infant feeding, and your transition into postpartum.
  • 1 Early Postpartum Integration Visit | 2 Hours: One private postpartum visit during the first several days after birth to process and integrate your birth experience, support early infant feeding, check in on your transition into postpartum, and adjust your Sacred Window wellness plan based on your birth experience and immediate needs. 
  • Personalized Sacred Window Postpartum Plan: An individualized Ayurvedic postpartum wellness plan designed to help you establish supportive rhythms for caring for yourself throughout the Sacred Window. Tailored to your birth experience and evolving needs, your plan offers guidance for nourishment, rest, digestion, daily rhythm, nervous system support, gentle movement, and restorative self-care practices you can continue at home.
  • Ongoing Support + Connection: Available for questions, concerns, guidance, and additional resources that arise throughout pregnancy and through your baby’s first year, providing continued connection and familiar support as your needs and family evolve.

Birth Threshold Support Package | $2,250

  • 2–4 Private Prenatal Preparation & Peer Support Sessions | 2 Hours Each: Personalized prenatal sessions tailored to your needs, previous experiences, and desired level of preparation. Together, we explore labor and birth, birth preferences and contingencies, postpartum recovery, infant care and feeding, and partner involvement and preparedness. Sessions also include practical, hands-on birth preparation with comfort measures, positioning, movement, breath, relaxation, partner support techniques, and what to do when labor begins, helping you and your partner feel informed, prepared, and adaptable for the transition ahead.
  • Pregnancy Comfort + Self-Care Practices: Personalized education in gentle practices that support comfort, body awareness, and connection throughout pregnancy and into postpartum, including guided self-Abhyanga, belly taping, and supportive wrapping or binding education when appropriate.
  • Birth Threshold Support: On-call availability beginning at 37 weeks, with continuous labor and birth support once you need me through the immediate postpartum transition. I remain with you for approximately 2–5 hours after birth to support the golden hour, early bonding, initial infant feeding, and your transition into postpartum.
  • 1 Early Postpartum Integration Visit | 2 Hours: One private postpartum visit during the first several days after birth to process and integrate your birth experience, support early infant feeding, and check in on your transition into postpartum.
  • Ongoing Support + Connection: Available for questions, guidance, and resource referrals throughout pregnancy and the early postpartum transition, providing familiar support as questions and needs arise.

Postpartum Continuity of Care

If you are desiring continued support beyond birth, comprehensive Sacred Window Postpartum Care is available through the first 42 days postpartum, offering a deeper level of nourishment, rest, integration, and maternal support. Visit the Postpartum Care page to explore ways your care can continue through the Sacred Window.

Postpartum Care

Individual Prenatal Services

Prenatal Peer Counseling

  • Single Prenatal Preparation & Peer Support Session | $140: A personalized session centered on the questions, concerns, and preparation that matter most to you and your family. We can explore birth preferences, physiological and cesarean birth, medical interventions, informed decision-making, comfort measures, partner preparation, infant feeding, postpartum recovery, or what to expect when labor begins. This is your space to ask questions, deepen your understanding, and leave feeling more informed and prepared for the path ahead.
  • Prenatal Peer Counseling & Birth Preparation 3-Session Package | $400: Three personalized 2-hour sessions offering more time to intentionally prepare for birth, postpartum, and early parenthood. Together, we explore your birth wishes, childbirth education, comfort measures, partner support, medical interventions and contingencies, cesarean and alternate birth outcomes, postpartum recovery, infant care, and lactation and infant feeding. With six hours of individualized preparation, there is space to go beyond a traditional birth plan and build the knowledge, practical skills, and adaptability to feel more confident however birth unfolds.

Prenatal Body Care

  • Kinesiology Taping | $35: for pelvic pain, low back aches, and round ligament pain 
  • Prenatal Abhyanga Self-Massage Lesson | $135: Beginning in the second trimester, learn the Ayurvedic practice of Abhyanga, a warm oil self-massage ritual that can become a deeply nurturing part of your prenatal rhythm. This personalized lesson teaches you how to safely adapt self-massage to your changing body and use intentional touch to encourage relaxation, grounding, body awareness, and nervous system regulation while creating space to slow down and connect more intimately with yourself and your baby. You’ll receive guidance for how to do the practice at home, along with your initial pregnancy-appropriate Ayurvedic body oil.

Ayurvedic Prenatal Wellness

  • Single Prenatal Ayurvedic Consultation | $300: A personalized Ayurvedic consultation for women seeking holistic support during pregnancy without committing to ongoing care. Together, we explore your current rhythms, nutrition, digestion, rest, movement, stress, and pregnancy-specific needs to create an individualized wellness plan that complements your prenatal healthcare. You’ll leave with practical, supportive recommendations designed to nurture your wellbeing, encourage greater balance, and help you move through pregnancy on your own with more intention and connection to your changing body.
  • 90-Day Prenatal Wellness Foundation | $750: A personalized Ayurvedic wellness pathway designed to support your changing body and wellbeing throughout pregnancy. Over 90 days, we work together in three intentional phases (30/60/90 days) to gradually build supportive rhythms around your daily routine, nutrition, digestion, rest, movement, nervous system regulation, and daily self-care. Rather than overwhelming you with change all at once, your care evolves alongside your pregnancy, helping you create sustainable practices that nurture you now while laying a thoughtful foundation for birth, recovery, and postpartum.
  • 6-Month Prenatal Wellness Continuity | $1,350: A deeper Ayurvedic wellness pathway for women who want consistent, personalized support as pregnancy evolves. Building upon the first 90 days, months 4–6 focus on regulation, consistency, and adaptation, with continuous refining. As your body and needs change, your care evolves with you, helping sustainable practices become part of everyday life while preparing your body, home, and rhythms for birth and the transition into postpartum.

Prenatal Yoga

  • 1:1: $95
  • 5-session package $425 ($85/session) | 10-session package $750 ($75/session)
  • Couples: $150
  • Small groups: starting at $150 (+$20 per additional person after two people)

Pregnancy Loss Continuity of Care

Every family enters pregnancy envisioning a baby on the other side. While we prepare together for birth, pregnancy does not always unfold as expected. Should your journey unexpectedly change through pregnancy or infant loss, our care does not end—it shifts to meet you at a different threshold. As your full-spectrum doula, I remain committed to offering compassionate presence, practical guidance, and thoughtful support as you navigate the physical and emotional realities of loss.


If a pregnancy or infant loss occurs while you are receiving prenatal care with Casa Matrescence, your care pathway will transition to:

  • Loss Doula Support: Compassionate emotional and practical support for you and your partner as you navigate miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, including in-person support at home and/or in the hospital when appropriate, available, and desired. 
  • Education + Advocacy Support: Guidance in understanding what you may encounter physically and emotionally, preparing questions for your healthcare team, navigating available options, and identifying when additional medical, lactation, or mental health support may be needed. 
  • Postpartum Recovery + Integration Visit | 2 Hours: One private visit following your loss to offer space for processing and integration, check in on your postpartum experience, and thoughtfully prepare for the days and weeks ahead. 
  • Continued Postpartum Care: For families who desire more extensive support, Sacred Window postpartum care remains available after pregnancy or infant loss and may include maternal nourishment, rest and recovery support, Ayurvedic wellness guidance, milk-transition education and feeding support when relevant, emotional integration, partner and family support, and meaningful ritual according to your individual needs and wishes.

When Care Begins

Prenatal care may begin as early as 8 weeks gestation and can be entered at different points throughout pregnancy. Earlier enrollment allows more time for your care to unfold gradually, with space to establish supportive rhythms, build our relationship, and prepare for birth and postpartum over time. When care begins later in pregnancy, our work becomes more focused around your current needs, priorities, and the preparation most meaningful for the time remaining.


The structure of your care is thoughtfully adapted to your stage of pregnancy, previous experiences, and individual needs, with what is possible within the available time discussed during the discovery process.

Next steps

If you’re curious about this care pathway and wondering whether it’s the right fit for your pregnancy, the next step is to begin a care inquiry. From there, we’ll connect to explore timing, needs, and alignment.

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Doulas remind us that birth is not only about making babies. It’s about making strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.


Babara Katz Rothman

CASA MATRESCENCE

Oahu-based, serving statewide and virtually.

Get in touch, email inspiritdoula@gmail.com

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