Empower Your Postpartum Journey

Your #1 Online Source For Postpartum Preparation

Empower Your Postpartum Journey

Your #1 Online Source For Postpartum Preparation

"Every postpartum mother deserves rest, nourishment, and loving care."

- Shelley Rahim

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the thought of postpartum?

You're not alone.

Most expecting moms are just like you – anxious and unsure about what to expect. But worry no more! Your path to postpartum wellness begins here! With nearly two decades of experience working with postpartum mothers Shelley has compiled her knowledge into a step-by-step framework for families to use.

Shelley’s approach to caring for postpartum mothers covers vital aspects like postpartum nourishment, rest, belly binding, and birth story healing, equipping you and your family with the knowledge and tools needed for a seamless transition.

With Shelley’s guidance, you’ll transcend societal norms–instead of anticipating the baby blues and postpartum depression, you’ll be equipped with the tools and know-how to thrive so you can emerge resilient, emotionally centered, and deeply bonded with your baby.

With Shelley’s guidance, you’ll transcend societal norms–instead of anticipating the baby blues and postpartum depression, you’ll be equipped with the tools and know-how to thrive so you can emerge physically strong, emotionally centered, and deeply bonded with your baby.

How It Works

Postpartum Ready: Your Postpartum Preparation Journey Starts Here!

By following the four steps outlined below, you gain access to essential resources that will lay the foundation for a nourishing, restful and empowered postpartum experience.

These resources will enable you to establish necessary infrastructure well before the baby arrives, setting you up for success from the start!

Step 1:

FREE Ebook: Post-Birth Recovery Meal Plan

Jump-start your motherhood journey with nourishment that balances hormones, supports milk production and accelerates healing from birth.

Step 1:

FREE Ebook: Post-Birth Recovery Meal Plan

Jump-start your motherhood journey with nourishment that balances hormones, supports milk production and accelerates healing from birth.

Step 2:

10 Easy Steps to A Healthy and Happy Postpartum

This guide takes the mystery out of postpartum care! Follow these 10 simple steps to create a nourishing, restful and peaceful postpartum experience.

Step 3:

The Postpartum Freezer Plan

Stock your freezer with 11 essential large-batch recipes to stabilize hormones, promote physical healing, calm the nervous system, and support ample milk supply.

Step 4:

Online Course For Families:
The Empowered Postpartum
(coming soon!)

This course empowers you and your family will the knowledge, tools and skills to support you effectively-allowing you to rest, recover, and bond with your baby.

Step 2:

10 Easy Steps to A Healthy and Happy Postpartum

This guide takes the mystery out of postpartum care! Follow these 10 simple steps to create a nourishing, restful and peaceful postpartum experience.

Step 3:

The Postpartum Freezer Plan

Stock your freezer with 11 essential large-batch recipes to stabilize hormones, promote physical healing, calm the nervous system, and support ample milk supply.

Step 4:

Online Course For Families:
The Empowered Postpartum (coming soon!)

This course empowers you and your family with the knowledge, tools and skills to support you effectively-allowing you to rest, recover, and bond with your baby.

Meet Shelley Rahim

Your Trusted Guide to Nourishing Postpartum Care

Shelley Rahim is a seasoned Birth Doula, Postpartum Caregiver, and Postpartum Chef with nearly two decades of experience supporting mothers and families during the childbearing year. She is the visionary founder behind New Mother Caregiving, LLC, where she shares her knowledge about nourishing and caring for postpartum mothers through her Instagram platform, ebooks, courses and upcoming Youtube channel. Shelley wholeheartedly believes that when postpartum mothers receive the nourishment, love and care they truly deserve, it’s the entire family that flourishes.

Shelley Rahim

Founder of New Mother Caregiving

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Meet Shelley Rahim

Your Trusted Guide to Nourishing Postpartum Care

Shelley Rahim

Founder of New Mother Caregiving

Read my story

Meet Shelley Rahim

Your Trusted Guide to Nourishing Postpartum Care

Shelley Rahim

Founder of New Mother Caregiving

Read my story

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Words From Our Thriving Mothers

Best tasting bone broth I’ve made yet

Your diet is a lifesaver!!! It’s so much easier not thinking about what to eat. Every day my mom just follows the plan and brings me things and all of it is delicious! And my milk is in great supply - baby is gaining weight and on track with everything!!!! I am so grateful and honestly have no idea how I would have done this without your help!

Kimberly Beplar

CAPPA Postpartum Doula Trainer

I was lucky enough to indulge in Shelley’s meals and caregiving for the first 40 days of my postpartum journey and felt nourished inside and out. Following her recipes allowed me to have completely healthy digestion and as a consequence, my body was able to do it’s work to heal.

Gerda

Immediately after giving birth, digestion is vulnerable, and having Shelley literally spoon feeding me her Rice Congee with Ayurvedic Broth tasted like gentle caramelized heaven and felt like I was receiving a mother's greatest love while I was totally focused on caring for our new baby.

Kristina Mikailian

Just have to say I had my second baby on Friday and while I didn’t do ALLL the recipes and meal prep, the things I do have have been major game-changers in how I’m feeling at home since! I’ve been downing Brainy Bites, muffins, bone broth, congee and the oatmeal and haven’t felt ANY drops in mood so far (unlike my after my first baby). I’m so glad I found your account. Thank you for your work and for spreading this cultural wisdom!

Dana Stewart

My husband and I used your freezer meal plan and stocked up so much food. I just delivered my third baby at home and there’s a picture of my mom spoon feeding me your butternut squash soup into my mouth about 10-15 minutes after delivering. My husband was downstairs making chai tea for me while the midwives were assessing me and our new baby. I cannot begin to emphasize what a difference eating so soon after delivery made on my overall recovery. I feel so much more like ‘myself’ and have gained energy so much faster this time!

Instagram Follower

Beyond grateful for your meal plan! I delivered my baby at 3:20am and a few hours later I was so grateful to have congee warmed up along with my soothing bone broth. So nourishing and satisfying! The hospital I delivered at had an extensive menu I could order from, but all I wanted and craved were the meals I made. Thank you for all your hard work, and for making these resources available to all women. God bless you!

Instagram Follower

My first meal after birth was your congee and it was AMAZING! I loved the oats, bone broth and CCF tea! Not only did I feel so loved and supported eating this meal, I felt so confident knowing I was putting nutritious foods in my body! I pooped easily on day four! Thank you so much for what you do, Shelley! It’s so important!

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Being well cared-for allowed me to be strong for my family. With daily massages, warm meals and birth story processing…I felt spoiled.

Elyse

Postpartum Mother

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Your recipes are fantastic! I'm 8 weeks postpartum and so glad I made them and brought them to the hospital. You have delicious and nourishing hot food was a highlight after an intense birth, and I never would have thought to bring my own food until I found your guide. Also, zero baby blues this time around! Thank you, thank you!! I'm telling every new mom I can about you.

Instagram Follower

Started following you when I found out I was pregnant with my first. Arrived at the hospital with a massive cooler bag of nourishing soups, your stewed fruits recipe, and lactation tea. The nurses asked if we were using that to transport our cord blood/placenta. I sheepishly told them no that was my food stash. Swear by your recipes! Never had to take a stool relaxer even though nurses highly advised (those stewed fruits are a blessing and actually delicious). Never felt so healthy and nourished! Thank you for sharing your recipes and methods.

Instagram Follower

I've been following your account since before I even got pregnant this time and it was fascinating for me to learn clear ways that postpartum could be so much better. I'd had tow very difficult postpartum periods and all your content really hit home and rang true. I am now five days postpartum with my beautiful third boy and I have never felt this good on day five. I've been drinking so much bone broth, using heat packs and drinking CCF tea and enjoying your lactation muffins and oatmeal and congee. I have felt emotionally so much more stable and I can feel my muscles healing. I have been so much happier and more present for my baby and our bonding has been so special and meaningful to me, like never before. Thanks to you I can securely and happily bond with my infant. You are so right - postpartum nutrition and care is the foundation of a healthy society. Thank you so much for your incredible page and beautiful content. This postpartum mama is thriving thanks to you.

Instagram Follower

thank you so much for all that you share. I'm able to be a well nourished, happy and grateful mom because of you.

Instagram Follower

Stewed fruits have kept me regular. Milk came in abundantly on day three, no engorgement.

Instagram Follower

I found your meal plan just days before I delivered my second and made/froze meals for the first couple of weeks. The hospital thought were crazy bringing all our own food in (and filtered water), but my baby is an amazing sleeper who rarely cries, breastfeeding has been a breeze and I'm going into week three with no sign of baby blues. 100% different experience than with my first born. Will be recommending this to EVERY pregnant mama I meet.

Instagram Follower

thank you so much for all that you share. I'm able to be a well nourished, happy and grateful mom because of you.

Instagram Follower

I loved the oats, the bone broth, the CCF tea. I'm still eating what's left. My baby reached their birth weight at four days old!!! The lactation consultant told us that was unheard of, esp of a first time mom. The combination of my BF practices and the CCF and lactation muffins have me producing like a literal faucet.

Instagram Follower

My first meal after birth was your congee. And it was AMAZING! I had a PPH and had to stay in L&D while I stabilized to be observed. The second they were done getting me set with stitches and pit, my boyfriend heated the congee and fed me and I fed my baby. It was so nourishing and felt as good emotionally as it did physically. I stabilized within two hours, the staff was shocked, and got to go to recovering from PPH easier and the meals have it so much faster!

Instagram Follower

I did you plan and had my baby 2 weeks ago. It worked so well for me I was blown away with the speedy recovery of my cesarean plus my milk supply went over the clouds from day 3! I actually had to stop taking the congee and the lactation tea because my breasts were so sore of all of the sudden producing so much more than my baby could take! The midwives at the hospital couldn't believe it and were very surprised that I went through cesarean and just took panadol and the meals I cooked at home from your plan. Thank you so much!

Instagram Follower

This is the best broth ever! The only kind of broth I made even 8 months PP. Makes amazing soups and adds so much depth and flavor to whatever I put it in!

Instagram Follower

Thank you for all your work! I have made your bone broths and absolutely enjoyed them as well as the other recipes! I noticed a huge difference from my last 2 and this postpartum recovery! Felt so much more nourished and just over all great!

Instagram Follower

I'm writing to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your carefully elaborated postpartum meal plan. I have had only the chance to try the bone broth, and in a postpartum world of much loneliness and feeling neglected this broth made me feel nurtured and hugged.

Instagram Follower

I wanted to thank you very much for the postpartum meal plan that you provided for everyone to download. I had my baby few days ago and I prepared every meal ahead of time. I'm 5 days postpartum now and with these meals I feel good and my body feels good too. Thank you so much.

Instagram Follower

I gave birth to my eighth baby in April. I used your meals and did the best I could (did not do all). And my spouse stayed home with me for 12 weeks!!! Usually he goes back after 1! And this is the first time I did not at all experience any baby blues!

Instagram Follower

Almost ready for this baby to arrive getting my meals done one by one!!! thank you for giving me the tools I need to recover like a champ!!! They taste amazing because yes I had to taste they smell sooooooo goooood!!!

Instagram Follower

I cannot tell you how much I've absorbed your passion for this. My sister made me all your meals PP and it touched my soul in such a way that brought me to tears. I had no postpartum anxiety like I did with my first. I just finished prepping your meal plan for my 2 friends also about to give birth I hope more people catch onto you so this becomes a standard part of Mom care in America. you are an inspiring pioneer!

Instagram Follower

You have changed the way I recover postpartum! Thank you! I found you before delivering my 6th child. Now we are expecting and due in the end of March.

Instagram Follower

I just gave birth yesterday. Followed your plan postpartum and the freezer ebook and this time round I had such a positive experience and afterwards I felt nourished and loved by myself it was so rewarding all those hours I put in and I finally got to see my baby plus enjoy a home cooked healthy meal post birth. I just want to say god bless you for everything you do. For the education and preparation you give women everywhere.

Instagram Follower

In all the prep I did for birth, no one (other than you!) mentioned that the cafeteria (ew) may be closed when it's over or made me consider the short and long term impacts of a big takeout meal. Not only did I feel so loved and supported (and I think the prep and communication the meal plan required set us up for more success in our partnership as parents), I felt so confident knowing I was putting in nutritious foods! And I pooped easily on day four! thank you so much for what you do Shelley.

Instagram Follower

If you are having doubts - I'm here to tell you that it works! I had my sister make it for me (excluded saffron and fenugreek) and my milk came in after 2 days! Please note that I also had the bone broth, muffins, sunshine oatmeal and stewed fruits. Total game changer! I made some and shared the recipes with another new mama and she is feeding her twins with ease! Shelley, I am forever grateful!

Instagram Follower

A huge thank you for all your teachings and wisdom when it comes to labor, birth, and beyond. Brett and I both talk so fondly of your class and I can see the mental impact it has on us almost daily in the way we communicate and interact in our new family roles. I made ALL of your recipes and prepped a ton, brought a ton to the hospital and through our entire 5 day stay there, as well as being home now my soul feels nourished, calm, and able to relax and focus on our new baby. I can't thank you enough and your wonderful soul that you openly share. Thank you so much, your teachings will always be such a pillar for us in our ever growing family.

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