SERVES: 6 adult serves
AGE APPROPRIATE: 6 months +
This pumpkin soup is the ultimate postpartum nourishment, and also doubles as a delicious baby food ‘puree’. Based on ancient Chinese medicine that recommend the new mother focuses on warm, easily digestible foods in the early days whilst the digestive tract adjusts back after birth. It is loaded with bone broth which is nutrient dense and a rich source of collagen (great for healing post birth), pumpkin and sweet potato which are a great complex carbohydrate to stabilise blood glucose levels, coconut milk which is a healthy fat to assist the body in absorbing the micronutrients and keep you full for longer, warming spices such as turmeric (a uterotonic that helps stimulate the uterus return to pre pregnancy size, and a powerful anti inflammatory great for healing post birth), ginger (improves digestion as the digestive organs return to normal post birth. Its also a lactogenic herb that supports milk supply).
It also makes a great postpartum meal as this is something you can pre-prepare in pregnancy and freeze in lunch and dinner portion sizes!