PHIladelphia Meal Prep for POSTPARTUM FAMILIES

Nourish Yourself Postpartum with Meal Prep & Plans

Taking care of a newborn is all-consuming...

It's easy to forget to care for ourselves.

Our postpartum meal preparation service is designed to ensure you're nourished with healthy, delicious meals during your recovery so you can focus on healing, bonding with your baby, and adjusting to life with your newborn.

You'll enjoy balanced meals using quality ingredients tailored to your postpartum needs and personal preferences. Your meal plan will include different postpartum traditions such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Western cuisine.

Your postpartum chef provides everything from grocery shopping & meal prep to serving you a healthy snack as you feed baby.

Meal Prep & Plans Tailored to Your Needs:

  • We’ll work with you to create a meal plan that suits your dietary needs, preferences, and any restrictions. Whether you need comforting, easy-to-digest meals or nutrient-dense options for breastfeeding, we’ve got you covered.
  • We will prepare fresh, wholesome meals with a focus on providing the right balance of nutrients to support your postpartum recovery and overall well-being.
  • Colleen takes care of all the grocery shopping for your meal plan, giving you more time to enjoy those precious baby snuggles!
  • While the pot simmers on the stove, you have full access to Colleen’s wealth of knowledge and experience as a postpartum doula.

Delicious & Healthy

Sample Meal Plan Options:

Hearty Main Dishes

  • West African sweet potato & peanut stew with chick peas, spinach, coconut milk, curry and turmeric
  • Soupe au pistou - summertime French vegetable soup finished with kale pesto
  • Hearty Grain Salad with seasonal vegetables, white beans, and miso vinaigrette
  • Vegetarian mushroom casserole with fennel and spinach

Delicious Side Dishes

  • Roasted carrots with Miso + Ginger
  • Sweet Potatoes Mash with feta and dill
  • Butternut Squash roasted with ghee
  • Stewed fruits with warming spices
  • Chinese tea eggs, soft-boiled and marinated with spices and soy sauce

Healthy Snacks

  • Banana-almond muffins
  • Date + coconut energy bites
  • Chocolate chip lactation cookies
  • Peanut butter rice snacks with maple syrup + grass fed butter
  • Chia banana bread energy bites
  • Chocolate chip lactation bites

Choose Your ideal Meal Prep Package

Fill Your Freezer Package

A single day of cooking which can be used during pregnancy or postpartum to stock your freezer with nourishing meals.

Six-Week Postpartum Package

36 hours of in-home cooking postpartum to nourish your healing & prepare you for the weeks to come.

Custom meal prep packages also available based on your needs!

Our postpartum meal preparation service is just one of the many ways we support you during this special time. Let us take the stress out of mealtime so you can focus on what matters most—healing, bonding, and adjusting to this special time.

Colleen Welsh Postpartum Meal Chef pouring tea for a new mom

Your postpartum chef: Colleen Welsh

Colleen is a Philly-based full spectrum doula and ServSafe certified postpartum chef who received her training through the Nourish program. Cooking has always been Colleen’s strongest love language. She takes pride in her intuitive ability to sense people’s needs and is deeply committed to creating a comfortable and collaborative environment for care.

Colleen meets her clients where they are, approaching her work with an open mind and heart. She understands firsthand how easily planning and preparing nutritious meals can fall by the wayside when time and energy are limited. She is keenly aware of the unique nutritional needs of the postpartum body, which often require more care, grace, and calories than commonly accounted for.

As a queer, plus-size, and neurodiverse doula, Colleen is proud to offer inclusive and expansive care informed by her own lived experiences. Her practice is evidence-based, non-judgmental, and rooted in compassion

Postpartum Nourishment You Can Count On.

Philadelphia Doula Gift Certificate Sample

The best gift you can give!

Support your loved ones with a Connected Doulas Gift Certificate: Good for any of our birth & postpartum services!

  • 1 Choose your own amount for the gift certificate.
  • 2 We will provide you with a beautiful PDF Gift Certificate, complete with a space for you to include a personalized message
  • 3 Your gift can be applied to all of our services, including birth and postpartum doula services, placenta encapsulation, lactation support, classes & postpartum meal prep.