Montuna

Montuna Accompaniment through pregnancy, loss, and healing 🌱
Community-rooted reproductive care, natural gynecology, and education.

Partera (DEM) | Multilingual | Collective care since 2009 Partería Montuna™ provides trauma-informed birth coaching, holistic sexual and reproductive health care, education, and community support in Skokie, Evanston, and North Chicago (and Puerto Rico). We support fertility, all pregnancy outcomes, body literacy, and culturally grounded wellness rooted in community care.

Riega la voz!!
04/18/2026

Riega la voz!!

El propósito de este cuestionario es validar cumplimiento de criterios de inclusión para las perosnas interesadas en participar de la Investigación Historias de Parto realizada por la Dra. Yarimar Rosa Rodríguez y el equipo de investigación de Caderamen, Inc. Además de recogerse algunos datos ...

There’s a lot of misinformation circulating about progesterone—and it’s time to ground ourselves in evidence, not fear.P...
04/13/2026

There’s a lot of misinformation circulating about progesterone—and it’s time to ground ourselves in evidence, not fear.

Progesterone plays an important role in hormone therapy, especially for people with a uterus using estrogen. Decades of research show that adding progesterone helps protect the endometrium from hyperplasia and cancer. That’s not opinion—that’s well-established, evidence-based care supported by large clinical studies and long-term data.

At the same time, not all progesterone is the same, and not all uses are backed by science. Some claims being circulated today rely on small, poorly designed studies—or are taken out of context to push narratives that don’t reflect real clinical evidence.
We’re seeing how quickly nuanced medical topics get distorted into harmful narratives—especially when it comes to reproductive and hormonal health. Sound familiar?

Whether it’s menopause care or abortion care, the pattern is the same: misinformation spreads fast, and people deserve better.

Let’s be clear:
Evidence-based care matters
Study quality matters
Nuance matters
People deserve accurate information and autonomy

If you want a clear, evidence-based breakdown, I highly recommend reading this article from Vajenda ("Progesterone in MHT for Protection Against Endometrial Cancer")—it does an excellent job unpacking the science and the myths.

We trust people with the truth—not politics, not stigma, not pseudoscience.

Celebrating Innovative Reproductive Care in the Midwest We loved seeing this article highlighting how mobile midwifery c...
04/09/2026

Celebrating Innovative Reproductive Care in the Midwest

We loved seeing this article highlighting how mobile midwifery clinics are expanding access to reproductive healthcare by meeting patients where they are. These models bring care directly into communities—especially for people who face barriers to traditional clinic settings—creating safer, more accessible spaces for services like contraception, pregnancy care, and reproductive health support.

At a time when access to care is increasingly uneven across our region, community-rooted approaches like this remind us that healthcare can be flexible, creative, and deeply centered on patient dignity and trust.

We are grateful to see providers and organizations across the Midwest continuing to imagine new ways to make care more reachable for everyone.

Read the article at
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/04/08/repub/its-a-safe-space-mobile-midwifery-clinics-meet-patients-where-they-are/

Se avecina una nueva formación de Doula de Espectro Completo en Español.En  y  hemos creado esta formación con muchísimo...
04/01/2026

Se avecina una nueva formación de Doula de Espectro Completo en Español.

En y hemos creado esta formaciĂłn con muchĂ­simo amor, para honrar nuestras culturas, nuestra sabidurĂ­a ancestral y las realidades de las familias de nuestras comunidades.

Creemos que toda familia merece dar a luz en su propio idioma, rodeada de un cuidado que comprenda sus tradiciones, sus alimentos, sus historias e incluso los consejos de su abuela. Porque el cuidado con raĂ­ces culturales no es un extra; es esencial.

En un momento en el que muchas familias inmigrantes viven con miedo e incertidumbre, formar doulas hispanohablantes sĂłlidas es una de las formas en que protegemos la dignidad, la cultura y el cuidado comunitario.

Nos enorgullece contribuir al crecimiento de esta red de doulas que estarán presentes para nuestras comunidades con compasión y respeto.

Por favor, comparte esta informaciĂłn con cualquier persona que desee unirse a esta formaciĂłn. Contacta a para inscribirte.

A new Spanish-language Full Spectrum Doula Training is coming. and  we created this training with so much love — to hono...
04/01/2026

A new Spanish-language Full Spectrum Doula Training is coming.

and we created this training with so much love — to honor our cultures, our ancestral wisdom, and the realities of the families in our communities.

We believe every family deserves to give birth in their own language, surrounded by care that understands their traditions, their foods, their stories, and even their abuela’s advice.Because culturally rooted care is not extra. It’s essential.

At a time when many immigrant families are living with fear and uncertainty, building strong Spanish-speaking doulas is one way we protect dignity, culture, and community care.

We’re proud to help grow this network of doulas who will show up for our communities with compassion and respect.

Please share with anyone who may want to join this training. Contact for enrollment

Jeva
03/28/2026

Jeva

La trabajadora social implementĂł un servicio que permite tener un ab**to por medicamentos sin tener que ir fĂ­sicamente a una clĂ­nica.

This Sunday: Feminine Care Products / Food DriveThis Sunday, feminine care products and canned food are being collected ...
03/13/2026

This Sunday: Feminine Care Products / Food Drive
This Sunday, feminine care products and canned food are being collected at Skokie Farmer's Market to help support the Niles Township Food Pantry. Please take all items to the green Skokie Farmers' Market tent. Let's continue to support our community.

May you have a great day and a healthy thyroid… with a great coffee (always a great coffee)
03/06/2026

May you have a great day and a healthy thyroid… with a great coffee (always a great coffee)

To all our clients and beyond, study opportunity from  ⚠Language⚠Minority Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy Loss StudyThe...
02/06/2026

To all our clients and beyond, study opportunity from

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Minority Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy Loss Study
The Pregnancy Loss Project is interested in how women cope with pregnancy loss and how pregnancy loss affects them.

Eligibility criteria: Spanish-speaking Hispanic/Latinx women, ages 18-50, who have had an involuntary pregnancy loss, such as a miscarriage, stillbirth, or therapeutic abortion.

Determine Study Eligibility

Contact: Kayla Layne, womenshealthpsychology@gmail.com

Recruitment ends: 3/31/2026
Link in our FB page: https://postpartum.net/professionals/current-research-announcements/

The Puerto Rico Senate’s approved Bill 923 threatens the rights, autonomy, and even the lives of pregnant people.It forc...
02/05/2026

The Puerto Rico Senate’s approved Bill 923 threatens the rights, autonomy, and even the lives of pregnant people.

It forces impossible choices between their own well-being and their pregnancies, and could also restrict access to reproductive healthcare, including advanced fertility treatments.

This law risks criminalizing miscarriage, abortion, and essential medical care — punishing people for outcomes beyond their control and for decisions that protect their health, mental well-being, and families.

Laws like this ignore scientific evidence, don’t make anyone safer, and instead create fear, delay care, and set dangerous precedents across the island.
We demand policies that protect bodily autonomy, guarantee access to evidence-based care, and defend both the people and the clinicians who rely on it.
Reproductive freedom is a human right — Puerto Rico must protect it.


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El Proyecto de Ley 923 aprobado por el Senado de Puerto Rico amenaza los derechos, la autonomĂ­a y hasta la vida de las personas gestantes.

Obliga a tomar decisiones imposibles entre su propio bienestar y su embarazo, y también podría restringir el acceso a atención reproductiva, incluyendo tratamientos avanzados de fertilidad.

Esta ley podría criminalizar ab**tos, pérdidas gestacionales y atención médica esencial — castigando a las personas por resultados fuera de su control y por decisiones que protegen su salud, bienestar mental y familias.

Leyes como esta ignoran la evidencia científica, no hacen a nadie más seguro y, en cambio, generan miedo, retrasan la atención y sientan precedentes peligrosos en toda la isla.

Exigimos polĂ­ticas que protejan la autonomĂ­a corporal, garanticen acceso a atenciĂłn basada en evidencia y defiendan tanto a las personas como a los profesionales de la salud que dependen de ella.

La libertad reproductiva es un derecho humano — Puerto Rico debe protegerla.

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Our Story/ Nuestra Historia

Mujer Montuna was born in 2008 as my spiritual reconciliation with the mountains of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. It was created initially as a space to work, create and conspire; with and for women identified people, and people, at mountain communities of PR.

It has transformed into a Social-Agricultural-Healing Justice project that we work on a daily basis with and for the community, around herbalism, permaculture, health and popular education practices.

Mujer Montuna’s mission is to reach social justice by encouraging transformative organizing for community sustainability and autonomy via the preservation and dissemination of ancestral practices of collective healing, agriculture, and education. Our target groups are communities of color with scarce resources, with a special focus on women identified people* within rural/ marginalized areas

Mama Aicha is a sub-project of Mujer Montuna. “Mama” as we say in Puerto Rico to a woman identified person we love, or we approach with love. An independent project that offers a compassionate support to communities and its people to obtain full spectrum sexual and reproductive health education and care services. We do this with a popular education, social-healing-reproductive justice, feminist, and decolonizing framework, training and organizing Health Workers in our communities on self-managed health techniques and bringing health prevention practices to where it always ancestrally belonged; into our people's hands!