Welcome! My name is Desiree Irvine. I’ve been working in the birth world for over a decade now, first training and working as an independent midwife. Now that life circumstances and family obligations prevent me from doing on-call work, I have shifted my focus to supporting women through their breastfeeding and postpartum jounyes. While birth gets so much attention (as it should), postpartum is a critical period of change and growth for mothers, their babies, and family. Postpartum healing is so oft-neglected, which is why I’ve made it my passion and shifted my business to focus completely on this fragile time in life.

When I had my first baby in 2013, I really thought I knew what I was doing. By then, I had been working in labor and delivery as a scrub tech and assisting at homebirths for several years. But as often as you can witness something from the outside, going through it yourself is entirely different.

I didn’t know I would have to do so much completely alone. Even with people surrounding me, no one could birth my babies for me. No one was going to swoop in and breastfeed them in my place. No one was going to rock back and forth alone in a dark room with my babies for hours and days and months on end. These were tasks only for me.

Each pregnancy taught me something different about myself and the world around me. Postpartum was a completely new terrain for me. Trying to heal my postpartum body and brain was an intense and rocky process. I found incredible teachers who generously shared their cultures and postpartum traditions. Food and ceremony and community are at the center of postpartum recovery and growth into motherhood.

The healing and growth I have found are exactly what I want to share with other new mothers. I don’t want my neighbors and community to struggle alone and confused as I did for so long. No one can go through the process for you, but with education, support, and delicious food, you don’t have to suffer through it alone.