Sanhu House · Postpartum Care
You were told to
find your village.
We built you one.
Korean inspired. Globally influenced. Tailored for you.
Book an intro call →Everyone tells you to build a village. Almost no one tells you what belongs in it, or how you’re supposed to find one when your family is three time zones away and it’s 3 a.m.
So we stopped treating the village like a nice idea and built one you can name. Here’s what’s inside yours.
Every real village comes from somewhere. Ours starts in Korea.
Korean inspired
Care that begins
with the mother.
We’re rooted in sanhujori, the Korean practice of the fourth trimester. A protected window where the mother is fed, kept warm, and given room to heal while everything else gets carried for her.
It rests on three things we don’t negotiate. Warmth. Rest. Nutrition. Most care turns straight to the baby. We keep turning back to you, because a recovered mother is the best thing that can happen to a newborn.
But warmth was never a Korean idea. It’s a human one, and every culture keeps its own.
Globally influenced
The care is Korean-inspired. The hands come from everywhere.
Our doulas come from all over, and each carries a postpartum tradition of her own. Korean in spirit, global in practice, matched to you.
One is a trained herbalist, blending custom teas from local plants for blood-building, sleep, and swelling.
One practices La Cuarentena, the Latin American tradition of warming food, deep rest, and a closing-of-the-bones ceremony.
One brings West Indian and Caribbean postpartum practices passed down in her family.
Others train in Ayurveda, Kundalini, and Reiki, for the mothers who want that kind of care.
And across the team: yoga, aromatherapy, meditation, lactation education, massage, belly binding, nutrition, and cooking.
We match you on location, availability, and the specialties that fit your needs, so we can’t promise every skill in one doula. This is the range we draw from, and the intention behind who we bring in.
Belly binding
The faja, sourced from a small maker in Mexico, wrapped to draw the body back together the way it’s been done for generations.
Food as medicine
Restorative meals from Korean, Latin American, Ayurvedic, and Caribbean tables. Nutrition with a lineage.
Custom tinctures
Blended for your recovery with a trusted maker. Evidence-informed and grounded.
A tradition is only as good as the hands that carry it. So here’s who we let into your home.
The baseline
Every Sanhu doula starts here.
Before a doula ever steps into your home, she meets every one of these. Real certifications, not invented ones. Fully insured, background-checked, and paid a living wage. We don’t cut corners, and that is part of why our care is what it is.
Certified & experienced. PP certification or a year-plus practicing.
300+ hands-on hours. Newborns 0 to 3 months, three-plus families.
Three references. Verifiable, from real postpartum families.
Vaccinated. Current on Tdap, flu and Covid favored.
$1M liability insurance. Per incident, every doula.
Background checked. Passed and verified before onboarding.
Reliable transportation. On time, every shift.
Real availability. Two to three shifts a week, minimum.
In-house training
Then we train them ourselves.
Meeting the baseline gets a doula in the door. What makes one ours is what happens next: whatever tradition she comes from, every doula trains in the Sanhu method with us. Our in-house Sanhujori program, built on the three things we never negotiate.
The team behind your doula
You get more than one person.
A senior doula who does your health intake herself, so your plan starts from who you are.
Runs your match and keeps the whole experience moving, so nothing lands on you.
Runs operations behind your care, so everything shows up on time and exactly as planned.
Curates the services and specialists folded into your care, matched to what your recovery needs.
Doulas, IBCLCs, and coordinators on one line. Ask once, the right person answers.
Hand-picks every item that arrives at your door, chosen for your recovery, home, and season.
The Sanhu Circle
More than a group chat.
People think the Sanhu Circle is a WhatsApp thread. It is more than that: your concierge, your care team, and a hand-vetted network of specialists, coordinated in one place. This is the village, and it comes with the care.
All of it, arranged around one person.
Tailored for you
You.
Start with the match. Build up to the care. You choose how far it goes, and it is always the right people, doing the right things, in your home.
Start here
- A real intake: your Design Your Experience and health intake calls
- Matched on location, availability, and the specialties you need
- We stay on the hook for the fit, not just a hand-off
- Days or nights, one simple hourly rate
Layer on the experience
- Sanhujori packages: One, Two, or Three
- The Sanhu Circle: concierge, care team, and specialist network
- Add-ons like bodywork, lactation, and cultural rituals
- Fully custom whenever you want it
Your village is waiting