Accompaniment through pregnancy, loss, and healing 🌱
Community-rooted reproductive care, natural gynecology, and education.
Partera (DEM) | Multilingual | Collective care since 2009 ParterĂa 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.
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.
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
03/28/2026
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La trabajadora social implementĂł un servicio que permite tener un ab**to por medicamentos sin tener que ir fĂsicamente a una clĂnica.
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.
03/06/2026
May you have a great day and a healthy thyroid… with a great coffee (always a great coffee)
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.
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.
Leyes como esta ignoran la evidencia cientĂfica, no hacen a nadie más seguro y, en cambio, generan miedo, retrasan la atenciĂłn 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.
**toLegal
Just as birds take flight, following the call of seasons and safety, human beings move — seeking home, opportunity, and survival. At Montuna, as immigrants ourselves, we celebrate these journeys and honor the courage of every person on the move.
We stand firmly against the violence, criminalization, and borders that target mobilizing communities. Policies that punish, detain, or deport people only deepen fear, trauma, and injustice. Migration is natural, necessary, and a human right — and we will continue fighting to defend it.
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Asà como las aves emprenden el vuelo siguiendo la llamada de las estaciones y la seguridad, los seres humanos nos movemos — buscando hogar, oportunidades y supervivencia. En Montuna, como inmigrantes, celebramos estos viajes y honramos el coraje de cada persona en movimiento.
Nos posicionamos firmemente contra la violencia, la criminalizaciĂłn y las fronteras que atacan a las comunidades que se movilizan. Las polĂticas que castigan, detienen o deportan a las personas solo profundizan el miedo, el trauma y la injusticia. Migrar es natural, necesario y un derecho humano — y seguiremos luchando para defenderlo.
01/23/2026
We feel so blessed that our calendars are filling up, and we won’t be able to welcome new clients until April 2026.
We will continue walking alongside our current clients, supporting follow-ups and emergencies — both virtually and at our Skokie location. Meanwhile, our hearts and hands are full: supporting a partner reproductive health clinic in Rockford, completing long-planned classes back home in Puerto Rico, and growing into a new chapter as a Board member with an organization we cherish deeply, Repro TLC.
We are endlessly grateful for the trust our clients place in us and for the unwavering support of our community. For those needing care before April, we are happy to guide you to trusted providers in Chicago.
A special, heartfelt thank you to Heartwood Center for Body, Mind and Spirit in Evanston for an unforgettable 2025 — being part of their integrative health providers was a gift, and we hope our paths cross again.
Here’s to a 2026 full of meaning, growth, and healing — may it be gentle, inspired, and luminous for us all. 💛
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.
🇵🇷
El Proyecto de Ley 923 del Senado de Puerto Rico amenaza los derechos, la autonomĂa y hasta la vida de las personas gestantes.
Leyes como esta ignoran la evidencia cientĂfica, no hacen a nadie más seguro y, en cambio, generan miedo, retrasan la atenciĂłn 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.
**toLegal
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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!
