Every postpartum
experience is different.
Every baby, every body, every family is different. And yet, new parents are bombarded with advice that assumes there’s one perfect path. At The Gentle Season, we do things differently.
We focus on you—your needs, your instincts, your version of thriving.
Because the best postpartum care isn’t about fitting into someone else’s idea of motherhood. It’s about finding what works for your family and having the support to make it happen.
I didn’t have a postpartum doula. I thought I could handle it on my own. I was wrong.
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My Name Is Zoë
I had a vision for my postpartum—something rooted in rest, warmth, and deep care. I dreamed of a First 40 Days style recovery, where I could simply exist with my baby, eating nourishing meals, wrapped in love and support. And in some ways, I had the ingredients for that—family who wanted to help, friends who cared. But what I didn’t have was the structure to make it happen.
I didn’t know how to set boundaries. I didn’t know how to ask for what I truly needed. And within five hours of coming home from the hospital, those missing pieces hit me like a brick wall. My boundaries were crossed. Feelings were hurt on all sides. And by the end of that first day, I sobbed in my husband's arms, emotionally gutted.
The first week was a blur of visitors passing my baby from one set of arms to another while I sat, recovering, unsure of my place in my own postpartum experience. People meant well. Some even brought or made food. But most of the emotional and practical care fell on my husband, who was deep in the trenches too.
And me? I held my baby only when I was breastfeeding. The bonding I had imagined didn’t happen—not for weeks.
And no one had prepared me for what that would feel like.
This is unfortunately a common story. Postpartum mental health is a major crisis right now in the U.S. Postpartum is raw and beautiful and so much more than the world lets on. You deserve rest. You deserve care. You deserve to feel supported in a way that lets you actually be in these first weeks with your baby, not just survive them.