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.

01/18/2026

The Puerto Rico Senate’s 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 del Senado de Puerto Rico amenaza los derechos, la autonomía 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 abortos, 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 políticas que protejan la autonomía corporal, garanticen acceso a atención 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.

01/16/2026

Háblame de Patriarcado sin decirme. O también dicho, un grupo de hombres sin útero con conexiones de interés muy fuertes $$ con la iglesia, se reunió a decidir por la seguridad y cuerpas de las mujeres y personas gestantes en nuestro país. Los derechos humanos de muches corren peligro mientras nuestro gobierno sigue jugando elaborar leyes sin base científica que ellos mismos no entienden.

Respiremos mi gente que esto no se acaba aquí!

01/06/2026

Cuenta la historia que las 3 Reinas Magas eran parteras y doulas 😉

01/04/2026

We’re open for 2026 and excited to welcome both new and returning clients! We’re deeply grateful to continue this work and care alongside you. 🌿

¡Estamos abiertxs en 2026 y felices de recibir a clientes nuevxs y de regreso! Agradecemos profundamente seguir caminando este trabajo y cuidado junto a ustedes. 🌿

Link in our bio/ Enlace en nuestro perfil de página

01/01/2026

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For a new year rooted in justice—where families and communities are not torn apart by government violence, and where healthcare, food, land, and housing are guaranteed rights, not privileges.

We reject systems that profit from harm and separation. We commit to healing as collective work and care as a political practice.

May justice guide how we live, organize, and show up for one another in the year ahead.

ESPAÑOL
Por un nuevo año arraigado en la justicia—donde las familias y comunidades no sean desgarradas por la violencia del Estado, y donde la salud, la alimentación, la tierra y la vivienda sean derechos garantizados, no privilegios.

Rechazamos sistemas que lucran con el daño y la separación. Nos comprometemos a la sanación como trabajo colectivo y al cuidado como práctica política.

Que la justicia guíe cómo vivimos, organizamos y nos acompañamos en el año que comienza.

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12/20/2025

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As this season of celebration unfolds, we at Montuna pause at our Cabaña Montuna with gratitude and intention. We honor rest as sacred and recognize that how we care, slow down, and remain present is deeply political. We also reflect on how justice is practiced in the everyday—in how we relate to one another, to the land, and to ourselves.

May these days be gentle, nourishing, and rooted in collective responsibility. 🤍

ESPAÑOL
En esta temporada de celebraciones, en Montuna hacemos una pausa en nuestra Cabaña Montuna con gratitud e intención. Honramos el descanso como algo sagrado y reconocemos que la forma en que cuidamos, desaceleramos y permanecemos presentes también es política. Reflexionamos también en cómo la justicia se practica en lo cotidiano—en cómo nos relacionamos entre nosotrxs, con la tierra y con nosotrxs mismxs.

Que estos días sean suaves, nutritivos y sostenidos por la responsabilidad colectiva. 🤍

12/17/2025

New Blog Post Alert!

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At Montuna, ancestral care is living practice.
Our new blog honors Puerto Rico’s santigüadoras—the lineages that raised us and shape our work today. From mal de ojo and empacho to mountain wisdom carried across the diaspora.

Read it at the link in our bio or on our page.

ESPAÑOL

En Montuna, el cuidado ancestral está vivo.
Nuestro nuevo blog honra a las santigüadoras de Puerto Rico y los linajes que nos criaron y guían nuestro trabajo hoy—del mal de ojo y el empacho a la sabiduría de la montaña en la diáspora.

Léelo en el enlace en nuestra bio o en nuestra página de Facebook.

12/16/2025

Let’s talk about SAM
Thanks IPAS for continuing these important conversations

12/14/2025

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At Montuna, we honor and continue the legacy of Puerto Rico’s santigüadoras—healers who cared for their communities through prayer, touch, herbs, and ancestral wisdom. Carrying this lineage forward is an act of remembrance, resistance, and collective healing. This knowledge is alive, and it belongs to our communities.

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En Montuna honramos y continuamos el legado de las santigüadoras de Puerto Rico—mujeres sanadoras que sostuvieron a sus comunidades con oración, toque, plantas y sabiduría ancestral. Mantener viva esta tradición es un acto de memoria, resistencia y sanación colectiva. Este conocimiento sigue vivo y es de nuestra gente.
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12/03/2025

This article does an excellent job highlighting emerging research on hormone therapy and cognitive health, and Dr. Lisa Mosconi’s work shines at the center of it. Mosconi has been one of the few researchers consistently pushing the field to take women’s brain health seriously, and this piece underscores how urgently we need to listen to the data she and others are generating.

The findings discussed here reinforce what clinicians and patients have been saying for years: perimenopause and menopause are not simply reproductive transitions — they are neurological transitions with real, measurable impacts. Mosconi’s commitment to rigorous, brain-based research is opening doors that were ignored for far too long.

If anything, this article shows how much more investment is needed. Women/people deserve studies that match the scale and complexity of their lived experiences. Continued funding and research in this area are essential so we can move beyond outdated assumptions and toward evidence-based care that protects cognitive health across the lifespan.

Article NBC News Nov 27 in our FB page:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/estrogen-dementia-prevention-hormone-replacement-women-perimenopause-rcna245664

11/30/2025

Looking for a meaningful holiday gift?
Offer someone you love the care they deserve — Montuna gift cards for bodywork, sobadas, reproductive wellness, and community-rooted healing.
Because wellness is best when shared.

¿Buscas un regalo significativo estas fiestas?
Regálale a alguien que amas el cuidado que merece — tarjetas de regalo de Montuna para masajes, sobadas, bienestar reproductivo y sanación comunitaria.
Porque el bienestar se comparte.

Order at the link in our bio/ Enlace para pedidos en nuestro perfil!
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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!

We do Reproductive/Sexual Health Education and Services: Fertility. Conception. Prenatal classes. Birth. Postpartum. Breast/Chest feeding. Womb "sobadas". Reiki. Vaginal Health/ Steam Baths. Full Spectrum Birth Worker. Abortion Companionship and training of Abortion companions. Alternative inseminations. Midwife trained. Everything in sync with what our ancestors taught us.

Together we built La Cabaña, a place where people gather, conspire ideas and dreams, take classes, heal and meet. The cabin was made with mucho love by Papi and our own hands, among the hands of my neighbors. With same love we ask people to enter through its doors.

Our Values:

Reproductive Justice because we understand people have the right of power to make decisions about their bodies, gender, sexuality, families and communities; but of those, some are most marginalized than others.

Inter-sectional Power, because we understand in this system people’s identities determine their power, as deny power to others.

Cultural Competence, because we believe People’s cultural differences should be respected, honored and manage appropriately by other people and systems.

Decolonizing, because systems are not lineal for everybody and can oppress some people, and might not determine values for others. We aim to bring health prevention practices to where it always ancestrally belonged; into our people's hands!

Popular Education because we promote conversations and organizing education in the base; BY the people, WITH the people and FOR the people.

Hope and Joy, because we know historically our communities of color have been threatened with tearing off our joy and hope, and we are here to safeguard these values.

With love, Jackie, o , La Jacoba

*Note: Trans women are women. People don’t need to have uterus nor vaginas to be part of our groups! Trans men have benefited from our workshops as well. Every diversity of body is welcome!