Organic Postpartum Healing Food Delivery
Extended rest. Specific nourishing foods. Bodywork. Warmth and heat. Community. These central tenets of postpartum healing are observed cross-culturally as far back as we can see. No matter where you are in the world, or at what point in history, these pillars are based on biological needs as women during this specific time. As birth has a physiologic design, the postpartum time has a physiologic design. When we understand and protect this delicate blueprint, we follow the roadmap that leads us to true healing and full-spectrum wellbeing. This is the way to thriving life as a mother-baby dyad.
The anatomy of postpartum nutrition: Specific and nourishing foods are proximal to optimal healing in the postpartum period. Nourishing – nutrient dense – mineral rich – easy to digest – hot in temperature – warming in nature – foods are crucial to the reorganizing and restructuring happening within. The bodies capacity to heal is contingent upon being accurately resourced. In order for all the new tasks to be upheld – creating breastmilk, hormone production, tissue regeneration – the body must have the essential building blocks to create with. Postpartum food is nutrition-centered comfort foods that nourish the body and heart.
As the mothers primal job is to sustain life of her newborn, the purest reflection of humanity’s support of life is to sustain mothers with nourishing foods.
As a graduate of the Innate Traditions Postpartum Care Provider training, I am directing my attention to nourishing foods. Postpartum care is not a luxury; it is a necessity for mothers’ health, babies’ health, and health of culture at large. I offer these services as a mission to help mothers, as these necessary postpartum resources are frequently overlooked or infeasible without outside support.
Services
I carefully construct postpartum meals that are in alignment with what it is our physiology requires throughout this time. My clients receive a seasonally updated menu, and we work together to meet specific needs in terms of allergies, special requests, spice tolerance, and other preferences. I want mamas to indulge in and relish their dream postpartum meals, and feel just as nourished in the soul as in the body.
My meals include specific healing foods, herbs, spices, cooking methods, and combinations, lovingly home-cooked and delivered. I take great care in sourcing the best local ingredients. All meals are organic, non-GMO, low-allergen, gluten-free, dairy-free and sweetened only with natural sweeteners such as maple syrup or coconut sugar. Midcoast Maine is blessed with abundant farms offering organic produce and pasture-raised livestock. High-quality medicinal foods, herbs, spices, and bones are carefully chosen for every meal.
Healing Foods Bundle $225: one bulk meal(6 servings for mom and partner), fancy custard, nutritious bites, herbed bone broth(or V), signature healing drink, 8 oz local raw unfiltered honey
Delivery Fee: $15-$40, based on location
Sample Meals:
- Bison meatball stew with vegetables and parsley dumplings
- Bison & sweet potato chili
- Peruvian cilantro beef stew
- Chicken & dumplings
- Mexican chicken tortilla soup
- French lentils with rabbit sausage
- Kitchari & braised beef
- Vegetarian: Vegan tortilla soup, vegetable curry, Nepalese potato soup
Postpartum-Healing Specialty Drinks:
- Golden milk(homemade cashew, almond & coconut milk) with fresh turmeric, ginger, spices & maple syrup
- Spiced horchata(brown rice, nut milk, spices & maple syrup)
- Postpartum herbal tea blend – for healing, milk production and hormonal regulation
Nutritious Quick-Grab Snacks:
- Milk making bombs or lactation cookies
- Nut and seed bars
- Superfood muffins
- Cashew butter & raw honey rice crispy treats
Additional:
- Herbal tincture: Red raspberry leaf extract, alcohol-free (the ultimate hormone reorganizer and postpartum mood support) $30. 1 month supply
- Postpartum herbal loose leaf tea blend
- Roasted bone marrow with crumbs
Birth Day Cake to celebrate mom and baby’s birth day
Our care is designed to support postpartum recovery, lactation and resilience. We got you! You got this.
it takes a village
Meal Train Facilitation: Service Fee $30
The most potent way to fulfill the level of support a postpartum mother requires is to have a meal train established within her community.
As mentioned above, community is a central tenet of postpartum healing. Our survival has always depended on being part of a tribe, and this need is woven into our DNA. Calling on and accepting support from the community is the single most important thing a new mother can do. Postpartum is the time to re-member the village and be held in support. A meal train nourishes the body and sense of community.
A meal train is a schedule of meals for the mother/family organized and provided by their community. Today, online registries streamline meal train planning, making them easier to orchestrate. One simply receives an email, follows a link, signs up for an available time slot and enters what meal they will be providing. The platform sends an automated email reminder to the participant before their chosen day. This scaffolding ensures meals are nicely spaced and varied so the mother doesn’t receive 10 of the same meals on the same day/week. This level of organization and simplicity is appreciated by all parties.
Often, mothers walk away from their baby shower feeling overwhelmed by the mountain of plastic toys and brand new infant onesies that are left on the living room floor. Every mom I talk to says that instead of an abundance of baby-centered gifts, they wished they had received gifts in the form of postpartum support. A great way to provide this support is to deliver a meal or donate cash to a postpartum fund.
How to start a meal train:
The shower is an ideal place to start the meal train. Shower organizers can set up a meal train posterboard where loved ones can sign up and leave an email address. Then, it is up to someone to organize the train. Options include:
- A friend or family member
- A postpartum doula
- Meal train facilitation by Mia
I will gladly set up a meal train for you. Facilitating meal trains is my favorite way to help postpartum mamas. It makes a life-changing difference in postpartum healing and is the most economical and practical way to achieve the degree of support needed.
Armed with the information of how to properly nourish throughout this season, mama can prepare a postpartum pantry that helps supplement the first forty days. Beyond a meal train from community and stocking a postpartum pantry, I can be part of a postpartum healing team delivering home-cooked meals and drinks when needed. My additional pages––resources, shop and my digital recipe book––also offer guidance. Feel free to check out my pages for inspiration, recipes, and more.
healing mothers as a way to world-transformation
“In cultures all around the world it is traditional to pamper the mother after birth, to allow her to rest, to feed her nourishing broths, stews, soups and milks and replenish her vital life force. Mothers are massaged, oiled, steamed, warmed, lightly roasted and gently poached back to wellness. Traditional cultures know that when we take care of the mother, we take care of the entire community. In the west, we have forgotten these time-worn traditions and thrown the baby (in this case, the mother) out with the bathwater.” – Milk and Seed
The journey of birth is a fiery transformative landscape by design; In which lies opportunity to excavate and incinerate an old version of oneself – necessary for passing the threshold from maiden to mother(or mother once again). This process prepares her with strength and resilience, which bolsters her in the ensuing role of motherhood.
When one moves through a rite of passage, it is crucial that their community validates the transformation––that they see and accurately reflect back to her the changes she has undergone. It is important that her tribe bear witness to her new identity and the profundity of her experience. This acknowledgment helps solidify her growth and maturation. Absent this recognition, dissonance occurs in the ways of feeling disconnected and disorientated.
Western culture normalizes a lack of regard and service to mothers. In doing so, it establishes a dis-eased dynamic. The underpinnings of grief are buried in hidden levels of consciousness and it manifests as sadness and confusion. Lack of recognition, lack of validation, and lack of support strain the heart and psyche. To overcome this, we need to re-member our tribes with members who love and support the women seeding and growing our future generations. There is no more important job in the world. I share this in service to advocacy. Advocacy for mothers, to their communities, in hope of a healthier society.
The postpartum period is a healing ceremony. Food is a ritual for healing. Serving food that is special, delicious, comforting and beautiful is a way to create a precious ritual in the healing ceremony that is the postpartum time. This is a clear way to bear witness, express love, and support the development of fond memories. Memories that will last a lifetime.
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Postpartum Meal Service Midcoast Maine