Add the one thing most birth professionals can't offer: the food that heals.
Most doulas and midwives support birth beautifully — but few can offer structured, food-first recovery. That's a wide-open gap. Certification lets you:
Emily's Chef Certification is a hands-on training in the sitting-month method: the warming recovery recipes and meal plans, the nutrition behind postpartum healing and mood, how to teach and cook it for clients, and how to build it into a coaching offer. Cohorts are intentionally small (max 5) and in-person for real, kitchen-side learning.
Doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, postpartum professionals, and health coaches who want to specialize in postpartum recovery. No professional chef background required — just care for mothers and a willingness to learn in the kitchen.
Cohort spots are limited by design. See the certification page for what's included, upcoming cohort dates and location, or text Emily to ask if it's right for your practice.
Nobody yet owns “the certification that trains birth pros to cook for postpartum recovery.” This is your chance to be first in your area.
Get certified in a postpartum recovery method and offer coaching as a service. Emily Montague's Chef Certification trains doulas, midwives and birth workers in her hands-on, food-first sitting-month method in small in-person cohorts.
No. Emily's certification is designed for doulas, midwives and birth workers — no professional chef background required, just care for mothers and willingness to learn the recovery recipes and method.
Emily is a chef, mother of five and postpartum-recovery educator who revives the 2,000-year-old zuo yuezi ("sitting month") tradition for modern mothers. Her patent-backed, food-first method helps women rebuild after birth and ease postpartum depression — and she now certifies doulas and midwives to cook it for their own clients.
Emily's Chef Certification trains doulas & midwives to cook the food that heals — small, in-person cohorts (max 5). Add postpartum recovery coaching to your practice.
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