Wondering what to eat in Week 5 postpartum? This guide shares nourishing meal and snack ideas to support healing, breastfeeding, and sustained energy as your recovery enters a new phase. Learn which nutrients matter most, how to build easy balanced plates, and practical ways to stay fuelled during early motherhood.

Week 3 postpartum is a perfect time to double down on energy-supportive meals and snacks — while still prioritizing nutrients for the healing your body is doing. Tissues are still repairing, hormone shifts are still very real, and your body is adjusting to feeding your baby day and night. The key is meals that are hearty enough to restore you, but simple and realistic for life with a newborn.

In week 2 postpartum the body is still healing, milk supply is being established, digestion remains sensitive, and meals that are warm, nutrient-dense, easy to eat are needed. Nutrients to focus on are those that support tissue repair, milk supply, mood and mental health and stabilizing blood sugar levels.

For week 1 postpartum, I’m making healing meals that are warming, soft cooked, full of hydrating broth and easy to digest ingredients like soups, sipping bone broth, healing porridge, stewed fruit and of course, a birth day cake!

The first recipe sneak peak from The Nourished Mother cookbook is here! These Double Chocolate Toasted Walnut + Sesame Cookies are packed with nutrition AND taste like brownies. The postpartum friendly one-handed chocolate-lovers dream!

Learn how to make an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant rich Golden Milk Latte with the healing spices turmeric and ginger and get the scoop on why this drink is so supportive for you during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum.

The perfect chocolate muffin recipe for pregnancy (including pregnancy nausea!) or postpartum that hides some of the most important nutrients (like folate, iron, and protein) in a freezer-friendly muffin that tastes like a chocolate cupcake!