by Muneera | Mar 23, 2019 |
This class will be held Saturdays, March 2nd-23rd from 10-12:30 at The Family Health and Birth Center in DC. Come learn how to set yourself up for success in the postpartum. Taste-test nourishing recipes, connect with other expectant families, learn about local resources and develop a deeper understanding of why proper care in the postpartum sets you and your baby up to THRIVE! Cost for the 4 class series is $150 for the expectant parent and their postpartum support partner, but free to those working with the Developing Families Center. LIMITED SPACES available. Best for families with late April-early June due dates. $50 non-refundable deposit holds your spot, with the balance due by February 23rd. Questions? Please contact:...
by Muneera | Mar 16, 2019 |
This class will be held Saturdays, March 2nd-23rd from 10-12:30 at The Family Health and Birth Center in DC. Come learn how to set yourself up for success in the postpartum. Taste-test nourishing recipes, connect with other expectant families, learn about local resources and develop a deeper understanding of why proper care in the postpartum sets you and your baby up to THRIVE! Cost for the 4 class series is $150 for the expectant parent and their postpartum support partner, but free to those working with the Developing Families Center. LIMITED SPACES available. Best for families with late April-early June due dates. $50 non-refundable deposit holds your spot, with the balance due by February 23rd. Questions? Please contact:...
by Muneera | Mar 9, 2019 |
This class will be held Saturdays, March 2nd-23rd from 10-12:30 at The Family Health and Birth Center in DC. Come learn how to set yourself up for success in the postpartum. Taste-test nourishing recipes, connect with other expectant families, learn about local resources and develop a deeper understanding of why proper care in the postpartum sets you and your baby up to THRIVE! Cost for the 4 class series is $150 for the expectant parent and their postpartum support partner, but free to those working with the Developing Families Center. LIMITED SPACES available. Best for families with late April-early June due dates. $50 non-refundable deposit holds your spot, with the balance due by February 23rd. Questions? Please contact:...
by muneera1978 | Dec 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I love to give my doula moms a healing postpartum soup. It is good to eat warming foods after birth. In Chinese medicine they believe that you loose a lot of your qi (energy) during birth and there are specific foods and soups that you can eat to replace that energy that you lost. I don’t follow the strict recipes but I definitely believe in the healing power of soup. My grandmother used to say for a soup to be healing it had to have “one up top and two below”, meaning that you needed at least two root vegetables and one that grows on top of the earth. I don’t know where she got that from, but it has always held up for me. I love making soup because you can throw most anything in there, you can also stretch it if a few extra people show up. Certain soups hold emotional healing properties for me as well; chicken and dumplings remind me of the last time I spent time with my grandfather, just he and I, before he passed several years ago. Potato soup takes me back to when I was sick in my childhood and my mother would make a simple watery potato soup when we were recovering from a stomach bug. Congee is a thickened healing rice porridge that I love with chicken or cooked with chicken broth that a Chinese friend made for me once when I was sick and I have craved it ever since when I have a cold. I recently had a delicious soup made from a dear friend that contained...
