Empowering Families to have a dignified pregnancy, birth & postpartum

Welcome!

I’m Iveth Balanta, a birthworker dedicated to providing holistic and culturally relevant support for families during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum so they can have a dignified and empowered birthing experience.

My Offerings

Comprehensive, culturally relevant, and empowering support services

Birthkeeping

Are you looking for empowering pregnancy, birth & postpartum support? Start by booking Your Dignified Birth Consult.

My Birthkeeping Services Include:

Birth Companion Experience: Labor & Birth Support
Wholesome Birthkeeping: Pregnancy, birth & postpartum support
Postpartum Dieta: postpartum support

Placenta Honoring Rituals

Do you want to know about your newborn's spiritual gifts told by their Placenta? Do you want to root their existence by offering back their Placenta to the Earth? Perhaps you are looking for art to preserve the memory of their birth and ancestral inheritance, or for Placental medicine to support your postpartum recovery?

My Placenta Honoring Rituals Include:

Placenta Readings, Placenta Planting Ceremony, Art & Medicine with the Placenta.

Ancestral Lineage Healing Sessions

Have you been looking to understand yourself, your life, and your place in the world? Are you going through an important moment of your reproductive life, feeling powerless and lost? Find in the Ancestral Lineage Healing Sessions space and guidance to restore the relationship with your blood ancestors as a basis for healing and transformation.

Making a Difference in my Community

Ancestral veneration

I have your family and ancestors at the core of all my offerings. My animist values allow for recognition of all spirits and your relationship with them as it pertains to your reproductive experience.

Indigenous traditional practices of care

As part of your traditional prenatal care sessions, you have the unique opportunity to enjoy harmonizing herbal baths (Baños), Traditional massage (Sobos), Healing talk therapy (Conversa), Dreamwork (Siembra de sueños), Plant walk meditations (Sanar con las plantas), and Energetic harmonization (Limpia). And as part of the traditional postpartum care of La Dieta Andina, you and your little one are blessed with the First bath after birth, Umbilicus ceremony (Ceremonia del Ombligo), Baby naming ceremony (Nombramiento de la wawa), and closing ceremony (Cerrada).

Plant Medicine

From getting insights and inspiration about how to best serve you, growing the herbs for your baths, and making the medicine you need, I bring all my gardening and yerbatera (herbalist) gifts into your life. I provide you with tools for sovereign gardening and reconnection with the Earth.

Ancestral foods as birth medicine and preparation of traditional meals.

Our food is nourishment and medicine. I offer a personalized meal plan of ancestral foods to help you reconnect with the plants, mushrooms, and animals that made you, your family, and your ancestors be who you are. I support you in sourcing local organic foods, generously share recipes, and help you with the preparation during my visits. 

Presence

I proudly serve a maximum of one birthkeeping family per month, and a limited number of clients for other services, which means that you get my undivided attention and care. This allows us to create a true bond and have more fulfilling experiences. 

By providing holistic and culturally relevant support

Iveth provided invaluable support during my pregnancy. Her knowledge and care made me feel empowered and connected to my culture. Highly recommend her services!

María

★★★★★

Words of Gratitude