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The Nourished Mother

Healing Recipes and Family Food for Postpartum & Beyond

The Nourished Mother is your real-life cookbook and roadmap for practical postpartum and early motherhood nourishment. Inside you’ll find 70+ recipes and doable strategies for postpartum healing, breastfeeding, and mineral repletion, plus customized freezer plans, staple-building ideas, one-handed meals and snacks, family meals, and protein prep you can use many different ways. It’s designed to take you from the first days after birth through the busy years of family life with food that helps you feel nourished, supported, and well-fed.

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Your modern guide to postpartum nourishment — delicious meals, wholesome snacks, and practical nutrition for real family life.

The Nourished Mother is organized into five chapters that guide you through every aspect of postpartum nourishment—from the foods that support healing and breastfeeding to the one-handed meals, protein staples, and mineral-rich recipes that keep you nourished through the realities of family life.

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  • Chapter One

    'Healing and Recovery for the Postpartum Early Days' walks you through the 4 Foundations of Postpartum Healing Nourishment, provides warming and easy to digest recipes for recovery, plus a collection of 6 customized postpartum freezer prep plans.

  • Chapter Two

    'One Handed Sustenance' is full of nourishing recipes for one-handed meals and snacks, both sweet and savoury, from breakfast burritos to snacking bark to sliders, muffins, and more!

  • Chapter Three

    'Food for Milk-Making' gives a run-down of nutritional needs when breastfeeding both for baby and you with recipes designed to help you get in nourishment with ease (and honour that breastfeeding hunger!)

  • Chapter Four

    'Prepped Proteins' gives you the ultimate postpartum food prep strategy: ready-to-go proteins! With these protein recipes ready to go, you can make meals all week long that come together quickly with the groceries you have on hand.  

  • Chapter Five

    'Mineral Mama' focuses on real-life strategies for the mineral depletion often experienced in new motherhood. Recipes in this chapter are focused on family meals, snacks, and drinks that help you to feel better than ever before!

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Here’s a Sneak Peak Inside

An oatmeal bowl from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A salmon dish from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A sheet pan meal from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
An energy bite postpartum snack from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A slider plate from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A berry breakfast bar from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
Homemade chocolate, nut butter cups from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A creamy soup from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A chicken thigh dish from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A ginger broth from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
A vegetable noodle dish from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
An herbal broth from The Nourished Mother, a postpartum cookbook by Lindsay Taylor.
The Food Doula, Lindsay Taylor, holds a bowl of soup that she made from her postpartum cookbook, The Nourished Mother.

I can’t wait for you to get your hands on the book and all of this:

  • Six freezer prep plans designed to help you identify the recipes that will support you most and get them prepped, whether you need more protein, a boost of iron, a focus on mineral repletion, all vegetarian recipes, or just all the snacks - it’s all here!

  • Real life advice for what to stock in your kitchen and pantry for a nourished postpartum plus how to freeze and defrost absolutely everything!

  • Recipes built for your needs and real life with nutrition guidance in each chapter that you can apply immediately (from healing, to breastfeeding, to mineral repletion meals for you and your whole family and more!)

  • Visual at-a-glance strategies for getting in the most important nutrients, customizing all of the one-handed meals and snacks you’ll find inside, making one protein and using it in many different meals based on the groceries you have at home, and so much more!

  • Visual dietary keys for gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, freezer-friendly, and nut-free recipes

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Lindsay Taylor tries one of her breakfast bowls from The Nourished Mother, her cookbook that includes recipes for postpartum healing.

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