25/06/2026
Somewhere along the way the art, wisdom and focus on nourishing new mothers has been lost in our culture and the decentralisation of it has a negative ripple effect on our experience of motherhood as individuals and as a collective.
There are several key pillars needed to support postpartum healing and nourishment is one of the most powerful. It is a piece of the postpartum puzzle we can plan for in advance, and I believe is one of the only things within our control in these early days of tender turbulence.
It’s a chance to replenish waning nutrient stores diminished during the nutritionally depleting journey to and through the early days of motherhood.
Postpartum depletion, a term coined by integrative doctor (& legend) Dr. Oscar Serrallach, refers to a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by the intense demands of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding where mothers are depleted of vital nutrients. This can persist for months or up to seven years after birth.
In many traditional cultures, the postpartum body is deemed to be in winter. Being warm from the inside out gives us the best chance of firing the cylinders back up to aid digestion, improve circulation, rekindle our vitality, and emerge from our postpartum wintering as nourished and restored as possible.
This isn’t isolated to the earliest days, all mothers need nourishing of course, at all stages but that early sacred window can be a wonderful opportunity to re-store, replenish and place the nourishment of the mother as a central part of the family health framework. An under nourished and depleted mother is a well worn archetype, and although the transformational shape shifting and mind bending journey of Matrescence is one all mothers will walk, postpartum depletion doesn’t have to be.
Let’s start the mother replenishment revolution! Who’s coming?
