it only makes sense that we would invoke the power of our old ancestral foods and plant allies when bringing new life into the world — or welcoming ancient souls returning to Earth.

These sacred, time-honored foods are threads of remembrance, reconnecting us to the wisdom of our bloodlines. They offer ritual, rhythm, and the deep nourishment needed to sustain mother and child through the great initiation of preparing for pregnancy and birth and integrating new life onto the earth.

The most nutrient-dense foods for mothers are those that echo the primal, whole-food traditions of our ancestors — rich bone broths, mineral-dense organ meats, and nourishing herbal infusions. 

Bone broths simmered slowly from pastured animals create a foundation of strength and resilience. They rebuild the body’s minerals, restore connective tissue, and feed the bones and blood.

Organ meats such as liver, heart, and kidney — once prized as sacred foods in traditional cultures — offer unparalleled levels of vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as iron, zinc, and the B vitamins crucial for energy, milk production, and hormone balance.

Alongside these foods are a drinkable Medicinal Food preparation, Nourishing Herbal Infusions — a cornerstone of the Wise Woman Tradition as taught by Susun Weed — support the rebuilding of vitality during conception and throughout pregnancy, postpartum, and lactation. These are not teas, but potent mineral tonics made from the most nourishing old medicinal and nutritional plants, these nourishing herbs that can be safely consumed in larger amounts over time.

The five primary allies for these infusions are:

• Oatstraw deeply calming to the nervous system, supports restful sleep, and strengthens connective tissue.

• Red Clover Blossoms a blood nourisher and phytoestrogen-rich tonic for hormonal stability.

• Linden Blossoms soothes the heart, calms anxiety, and supports emotional balance.

• Nettle Leaf builds blood, enriches milk supply, and replenishes minerals such as iron, calcium, and magnesium.

• Comfrey Leaf a great ally for tissue repair and skeletal health, encouraging deep restoration.

⟢ Oatstraw (Avena sativa): Nourishment & Nervous System Rebuilder
Conception: Calms stress and supports nervous and endocrine systems, creating a more receptive body for conception. Nourishes the uterus and ovaries gently with calcium and magnesium, preparing the womb for implantation. Increases libido too :)

Pregnancy: Oatstraw soothes and repairs frazzled nerves and stabilizes emotions. It’s rich in calcium, magnesium, and B vitamins, which support the nervous system, muscles, and developing baby. It’s excellent for easing tension, restlessness, and sleep challenges during pregnancy.

Postpartum: Restores depleted nerves and adrenal reserves after birth. Helps with feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, or exhaustion that often follow delivery. Brings steadiness and a calm clarity to the mind.

Lactation: Supports milk production indirectly by nourishing the mother deeply. A relaxed and well-nourished body flows milk more easily.

Energetic/Spiritual: Oatstraw wraps the aura like a silken blanket— softening, soothing, mothering the mother. 

⟢ Red Clover Blossom (Trifolium pratense) Hormonal Health & Blood Nourishment
Conception: Supports uterine health and hormonal health with gentle phytoestrogens, encourages healthy ovulation, and enriches blood for implantation. Very supportive for increasing fertility!!!

Pregnancy: Rich in minerals (especially calcium, magnesium, and trace elements) and phytoestrogens that support hormonal stability. Helps build rich, oxygenated blood and gently supports fertility and womb vitality before and early in pregnancy.

Postpartum: Supports recovery of the womb and stabilizing of hormones after birth. Restores vitality and encourages metabolic fluid through the lymph.

Lactation: A mild galactagogue — red clover supports steady, abundant milk flow. Its minerals enrich both mother and baby.

Energetic/Spiritual: Symbol of feminine renewal and sacred fertility. Red clover brings sweetness to the heart, helping one to open to love and deep, integrated nourishment after the vulnerability of birth.

⟢ Linden Blossom (Tilia spp.) Heart Opener & Soother of Stress
Conception: Calms emotional stress and tension, which supports healthy reproductive cycles and a receptive, relaxed uterus.

Pregnancy: Gentle and calming reduces anxiety, tension, and headaches. Supports circulation and helps ease swelling and regulate blood pressure. Anti-inflammatory, brings harmony and ease. 

Postpartum: Linden brings comfort to the emotional heart, easing postpartum sadness or tearfulness.
It soothes tension in both mind and body, supporting a sense of soft peace during the tender days after birth.

Lactation: Promotes relaxation, which enhances oxytocin flow and supports bonding and letdown reflex.

Energetic/Spiritual: Tree Medicine of Motherly Love — Linden’s energy is that of the Great Mother’s embrace. She helps soften the edges of transition and reconnect the heart to gratitude and joy.

⟢ Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica) Mineral Powerhouse & Blood Builder

Conception: Builds iron-rich, nutrient-dense blood, supports kidney and adrenal health, and strengthens overall fertility. Provides essential minerals to nourish eggs and reproductive tissues. Provides vein elasticity.

Pregnancy: A true tonic for pregnancy. Loaded with iron, calcium, magnesium, and chlorophyll, nettle strengthens kidneys, nourishes the blood, and supports the body’s expansion. Helps prevent leg cramps, fatigue, and anemia. Provides elasticity to the veins :)

Postpartum: Restores lost minerals, rebuilds blood, strengthens connective tissue, and supports hair and nail regrowth. It’s grounding, stabilizing, and helps the body recover its deep reserves.

Lactation: Promotes rich, abundant milk flow and helps the mother feel vital and nourished. Nettle’s minerals pass through the milk, fortifying the baby as well.

Energetic/Spiritual: Nettle is the green guardian — firm but loving. She strengthens boundaries while feeding the inner vitality of the mother.

⟢ Comfrey Leaf (Symphytum uplandicium x) Tissue Healer & Cellular Rebuilder

Conception: Supports reproductive tissue health, strengthens uterine and ovarian tissues, and nourishes the body with minerals that prepare the body for pregnancy.

Pregnancy: Comfrey is rich in allantoin, calcium, and protein-like compounds that support cell regeneration and strong connective tissues. It can help prevent stretch marks and support joint stability.

Postpartum: Marvelous for healing tissues — whether vaginal, perineal, or abdominal (for those who had cesareans). Comfrey’s nutritive power aids rapid recovery and helps the uterus tone and repair.

Lactation: Safe and deeply restorative. Helps with generating brain cells. Externally, it’s a wonderful compress or sitz bath for healing tears and/or hemorrhoids.

Energetic/Spiritual: Comfrey is the bone-mender and soul weaver—she helps us come home to our bodies after the vast journey of birth.

How to Prepare a Nourishing Herbal Infusion:

1. Use 1 ounce (by weight) of dried herb using a kitchen scale.

2. Place in a quart jar and fill with boiling water to the top.

3. Cap and steep 4–8 hours or overnight.

4. Strain and drink throughout the day.

5. Keep refrigerated, and drink within 36 hours.

6. Additions can be made, if palatability is an issue. 

Rotate your herbs — one infusion per day, one herb at a time. This honors each ally as an individual teacher, and lets your body listen to its medicine clearly.

Nourishing Bone Broth for Conception, Pregnancy, Postpartum & Lactation
In the sacred journey of creating life, healing life, and nourishing life, the humble pot of bone broth is an old simple nourishing remembrance, renewal and deep structural support. Drawing on the lineage of nutrition championed by Weston A. Price Foundation and the guidance of Sally Fallon Morell in The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care, we honor broth as both offering and medicine.

• When you simmer bones with marrow, cartilage and spend time in the gentle heat of the stove, you release gelatin, glycine, proline, minerals and compounds that support your body’s connective tissues, digestion, joints and vitality.

• Fallon emphasizes that a gelatin-rich broth should be “a regular part of the diet for its gut-healing properties.” This is vital when your body is shifting, repairing, building and feeding.

• For a nursing mother, the book recommends bone broths as part of the nurturing foods that strengthen milk supply and support the mother’s energy.

• In preparation for pregnancy, during the expanding months, and in the tender postpartum season, broth becomes foundational nourishment.

Here’s a ritual-informed way to make and integrate bone broth as part of your wisdom-based nourishment:

Bone Broth Recipe & Ritual Magic

Ingredients & Preparation (Based on WAPF guidelines from Sally Fallon.)

• Use pastured, organic, free-range animals where possible — chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, fish carcasses. The quality of the bone and marrow matters. Weston A. Price Foundation

• Include bones with marrow, cartilage, knuckles, feet (e.g., chicken feet) if you can — these yield more gelatin.

• Add filtered cold water, a splash of vinegar (which helps draw minerals from the bones), and vegetables/herbs (onion, carrot, celery, parsley) for flavor and nutrients.

• Bring the pot up slowly. Start with cold water, then warm until boiling, then reduce to a very gentle simmer — “the water should be cold, because slow heating helps bring out flavors.”

• Skim the scum that rises to the surface for clarity and purity. 

• Simmer:
  For chicken and poultry: ~6-8 hours.
  For beef/lamb: 12-72 hours depending on bones.
  Fish: ~2-4 hours.

• Strain the broth; you may chill and remove the fat if desired (though many choose to keep some of the fat for nourishment). Store in the fridge or freeze for longer.
  

Ritual & Integration

• When you’re pregnant, support your bones and baby’s bones, to ease your joints, and to ease your digestion as your belly grows.

• Postpartum: Use broth as a first gentle food (especially if you had a surgical birth or heavy tissue-trauma). Sip warm broth in the morning, or use it as the base of a healing stew with greens and root vegetables.

• While lactating: Keep a batch ready (freeze while pregnant for after birth ease). A small mug of warm broth midday or evening is a soothing nourishment both for you and your milk supply. It calms the nervous system — and calm supports milk let-down.

• Make it into soups and stews: Add seasonal vegetables, herbs, beans or grains (if your diet allows), lean meat or fish. The broth becomes the “mother” layer within the bowl, nourishing everything else.
  
  

Why Organ Meats?
When you’re pregnant, postpartum, or lactating, your body is weaving new tissue, regenerating, offering sustenance. Organ meats offer a powerful ally—they supply bio-available vitamins (A, D, K2, B12), minerals, amino acids, choline, and rich fats in a form your body knows how to use.

In the tradition upheld by Sally Fallon, organ meats are not simply another food — they are sacred foods for the life maker. As she writes, “liver and other nutritious organ meats … were mixed with ground beef or lamb … for the production of beautiful, healthy babies.”

In her work, she underscores how traditional cultures revered organs, glands, marrow, blood and fat — particularly because these parts carry concentrated nourishment for growing children, for pregnancy, for postpartum restoration.

Benefits During Conception, Pregnancy, Postpartum, & Lactation

• Conception: Organ meats provide deeply bioavailable nutrients that prepare the body for conception. Rich in vitamins A, D, E, K2, B12, iron, zinc, choline, and amino acids, they support ovarian and uterine health, hormone balance, and egg quality. By nourishing the blood, building strength, and supporting adrenal and liver function, organ meats help create a fertile, receptive body ready to conceive.

• Pregnancy: Organ meats feed the womb, support baby’s development at the deepest level, bolster your reserves so you can carry the weight of life with greater grace and strength.

• Postpartum: After birth your body needs to heal, rebuild, restore. Organ meats are living-food medicine — they help rebuild blood, deepen vitality, restore tissue, and calm the central and parasympathetic nervous system.

• Lactation: As you feed another via your body, you also must be fed deeply. Organ meats provide concentrated nourishment so that you’re not depleted but flourishing — your milk becomes richer, your energy steadier.
  

How to Work With Organ Meats

1. Source — Choose organs from pastured, regeneratively-raised animals.

2. Start gentle — If new to organ meats, begin with small portions: e.g., 1 oz liver per meal, or liver paté on sourdough, or finely ground organ blend mixed into a meat stew.

3. Rotate & vary — Use beef liver one day, chicken liver another, kidneys, heart, sweetbreads — diversity nourishes our wholeness :)

4. Pair with supportive foods — Serve organ meats with greens, root vegetables, nutrient-rich fats (butter, ghee), warming herbs (rosemary, thyme), and grounding grains if your body allows.

5. Organs in capsules — make a very easy and accessible way to utilize the benefits of organ meats - quite possibly the only time you will see me ever recommend anything in capsules :)

A Simple Gentle Recipe 
Golden Liver-Herb Pâté for the Life Maker

Ingredients
• 8 oz pastured chicken livers, cleaned and trimmed
• 2 Tbsp butter or ghee
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tsp fresh thyme
• 1 Tbsp pastured cream or coconut cream (optional)
• Sea salt & fresh pepper to taste

Preparation:

1. Sauté the onion and garlic in butter until soft.

2. Add cleaned livers and thyme; sauté gently ~5 minutes, until just cooked.

3. Transfer to a blender, add cream, salt and pepper; blend until smooth.

4. Pour into a small jar, cover and chill. Serve with crisp endive leaves, sourdough points or steamed veggies.

5. Store up to 3 days in the fridge or freeze in small portions.

6. Enjoy yourself and your intentional nourishment of Self.
   

Happy love child making :)