After birth, a mother’s body is deeply depleted. Blood loss, hormonal shifts, broken sleep, stretched tissues… rest and repair is needed. In traditional cultures, new mothers were protected, cocooned, and nourished with war m, easy-to-digest foods like slow-cooked broths and stews to rebuild strength, restore warmth, and support healing. In the western world, this wisdom was lost somewhere along the way and mothers were led to believe that “bouncing back” and performing matte