Meal prepping during the postpartum period is a proactive and self-caring approach. It ensures you have easy access to nutritious, comforting meals during a time when your focus should be on healing, bonding, and adjusting to the new addition to your family. It’s a gift you give yourself and your baby, ensuring a smoother and healthier transition into motherhood.
Taking care of a newborn is an around-the-clock job. Meal prepping allows you to have nutritious and convenient meals ready to go. This can save you precious time that can be better spent resting, bonding with your baby, or taking care of other essential tasks. Our Cookbook for Newborn Parents helps you to do so.
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Another important toppings are flax seeds. Studies show that flax seeds can even balances hormones and can help to lower the chance of postpartum depressions.
On top, for those mama’s struggling with digestion, especially right after birth, adding in a few spoons of flax seeds will give your digestion a boost and promotes a healthy gut ~ in other words, they give mama happy moods and confidence.
We say, bring it on with these flax seeds.
