From our kitchen in Paso Robles to your door in Bakersfield — frozen postpartum meals shipped frozen, at your door in 1–2 business days.
Our kitchen is in Paso Robles on the Central Coast. Every meal is made by hand there, then frozen.
Meals travel in insulated boxes with dry ice, so they stay frozen on the way to you.
UPS carries your box from Paso Robles on Tuesdays. Enter your ZIP above to see the shipping price for your address.
Bakersfield and Kern County families are growing fast, and new mothers here deserve nourishing, research-informed postpartum meals. Mothership ships frozen meals from just over the pass in Paso Robles, making it easy to stock your freezer before baby arrives.
All packages ship frozen with dry ice. Meals stay fresh in your freezer for up to 6 months.
Sending food to someone else? The Gift Package is a good place to start. Don't know their address yet? Send a gift card and they can choose where it goes.
Send a gift cardWe ship to all California addresses from our kitchen in Paso Robles. Enter your ZIP to see the shipping price for your address.
We ship UPS from our kitchen in Paso Robles, just over the Grapevine. Orders ship Tuesdays in insulated packaging with dry ice, arriving within 1-2 business days. Enter your ZIP on this page to see an estimate; the exact price is confirmed at checkout.
Our most popular package, The Essentials, includes 23 items: bone broth, soups, curries, breakfasts, sourdough, fermented curtido, and lactation brownies — about 2 weeks of postpartum support.
Absolutely — postpartum meals are one of the most thoughtful gifts for a new mother. We offer packages from $182 and gift cards from $25. You can also add Mothership to any baby registry.
Every recipe is built around traditional postpartum foods — warming dishes, iron-carrying ingredients, and slow-simmered broths, the kind of food cultures have leaned on for generations after birth. Created by a chef who studied neuroscience at Penn and then became a mother herself.
We recommend ordering 3-4 weeks before your due date. Meals stay fresh in your freezer for up to 6 months, so they'll be ready when you need them. Many moms order their second round after baby arrives.
Order now and your meals will be in your Bakersfield freezer within days.