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.
Delicious & Healthy
Sample Meal Plan Options:
Hearty Main Dishes
- Creamy squash and red lentil soup
- Puréed carrot fennel soup with dill oil
- Green Goddess soup with lentils and quinoa
- Mushroom risotto fortified with bone or mineral broth
- French Lentil Stew with leeks and fresh herbs
- Frittatas
- Sautéed leeks, butter browned shiitakes, goat cheese
- Shallots, potato, shiitakes, tarragon
- Sweet potato, asparagus, dill, black bean, goat cheese
- Warming Rice Congee - sweet or savory
- Red Velvet Soup with beets and lentils
- Butternut squash soup with seasonal herbs
- Postpartum Dal with zucchini
- Recovery Vegetable Stew with millet and cashews
- Iron-rich Korean seaweed soup
- Savory or Sweet Oats - a blend of rolled and steel-cut oats with flax, and finished with cream
- Colleen’s Golden Chicken stew with ginger, turmeric, and garlic
- Hearty Irish beef stew
Delicious Side Dishes
Healthy Snacks
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
My postpartum doula, Colleen, is a BABY WHISPERER and cooked us delicious and healing meals that helped me recovery and get strong
E.W Philadelphia, PA
Colleen was a literal godsend and I’m so grateful she was able to be part of our newborn story.
K.W Philadelphia, PA
"My first postpartum days were blessedly and surprisingly easy, all thanks to Colleen's unparalleled support. She made my days so much less stressful by prepping nutritious and delicious food at just the right moments, before I had a chance to become a ravenous stress-monster!"
Katie L.
"A few days before I went into labor Colleen stocked our fridge and freezer with breakfasts, lunches, and snacks to nourish us when we got home from the hospital. Everything was made and ready to heat & eat, which quite frankly was all we could handle as first-time parents."
Melodie C.
"Colleen, you have outdone yourself. The meals, and grab and go snacks are delicious. Thank you!"
Client in Philadelphia. PA
"Warming, nutrition-packed comfort. It feels like every ingredient is included with care and purpose, all to support the body's needs in that particular way. Colleen is incredibly thoughtful and proactive when it comes to food, and really takes care of the whole person."
Katie L.
"OMG the dishes this week! Love the mushroom soup and the goat cheese on the baked kale salad. Chefs kiss!"
Client in Philadelphia PA
The best gift you can give!