Our Story

Postpartum care, the way it’s been done for generations

In Mexico and across Latin America, a new mom isn’t expected to bounce back. For forty days, la cuarentena, her family takes over. They cook, they manage the visitors, and they tell her to rest. She is fed warm broths and herbal teas, and her job is to heal and feed her baby. Herbs were part of that care. Ixbut was brewed into tea, chaya went into soups, and anise was steeped to settle the body and support milk. Nobody needed a clinical study. Grandmothers passed the tradition down to their daughters because they trusted it. This practice has a name: la cuarentena the forty days. For forty days, she is fed warm broths, nourishing stews, and herbal teas. She is kept from cold drafts. Her only job is to heal, to bond, and to feed her baby.
The herbs were part of it. Ixbut brewed into tea. Chaya stirred into soups. Anise steeped with other plants to ease the body and support the flow of milk. These remedies were not written in clinical journals. They were passed from grandmother to daughter, generation after generation, because they worked.

THE FOUNDERS

Our story

Hali

Hali is an IBCLC (a board-certified lactation consultant) and a functional nutritionist. She lived in Central America as a working postpartum professional and saw la cuarentena up close, in real homes, with real families rallying around new moms. Plants like Ixbut were used as a natural part of the process. Back in Miami, she kept meeting moms who were struggling with supply and running on empty. Her clinical training gave her the language to explain what those traditions already knew. But Ixbut was hard to find in the US and that needed to change.

Diego

Diego grew up in Mexico, where caring for a new mother was never an afterthought. It was a community effort, a ritual, a given. As a business consultant, he spent his career helping companies grow and do better. But along the way, he watched his sisters and close friends navigate the months after birth struggling to breastfeed, exhausted, often lost and noticed the gap between what his culture had always offered new mothers and what the U.S. supplement aisle had to give them.

Why we made Akna

The U.S. supplement market is full of postpartum products. Most of them have the same problem: herbs at doses too low to do anything, synthetic nutrients the body can barely absorb, and no connection to the traditions that gave these plants their meaning.

Together, we wanted to make something that does justice to both sides: the tradition, and the clinical thinking behind how we dose and formulate. That means a real amount of Ixbut, nutrients in forms the body absorbs well, and a full ingredient list with the doses printed on it.

Akna Wellness was built to fill that gap.

Why Akna?

Akna is the Mayan goddess of birth and motherhood, who protects women in labor and in the weeks after. We chose her name because we instinctively know new moms deserve to be cared for.

Sourcing

Rooted in the Land That Knew Them First

Our hero ingredient, Ixbut.
Ixbut is native to Guatemala, so that’s where we get it. Moringa, chaya and anise have been part of Latin American postpartum cooking for generations. We use them because they’re traditional and familiar, not because they’re trendy.

Where We Are

Built in Miami. Available Everywhere.

We’re based in Miami, where la cuarentena is still kept in many homes. We ship across all 50 US states. We’re a small team of two, and we answer our own messages. Say hello at hello@aknawellness.com

What We Stand For

We source from origin communities, not around them. We choose nutrients for bioavailability, not label optics. We are transparent about every ingredient and dose.

La cuarentena exists because women recognized, long before science did, that the postpartum body needs time, warmth, and specific nourishment to recover fully.

Nourish your journey.

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