So there is less that needs doing.

The early weeks with a new baby ask so much from you, while the rest of life somehow keeps asking, too.

There are still people to feed. Clothes to wash. Dishes in the sink. Beds that need changing. Maybe older children who need snacks and stories and someone to find the blue cup that is apparently the only acceptable cup.

The Keeping is six weeks of in-home care designed to carry some of that weight for you.

Not so you can finally “get things done.”

Less to do. More time to be here.

Really. That defeats the entire point.

PLEASE DON'T CLEAN FOR ME.

Not a deep clean. Not a perfectly kept house.

Just a home that feels a little easier to live in.

I’m not coming into your home expecting it to be ready for me. Quite the opposite.

Leave the dishes in the sink. Leave the laundry in the basket. Leave the half-eaten toast on the table and the toys exactly where everyone left them.

While I’m there, I’ll move through the everyday things that keep a home running—washing and folding laundry, resetting the kitchen, changing sheets, tidying the spaces you’re actually living in, and taking care of the little things that have started piling up.

A home that asks a little less of you.

the home.

We'll talk about who I'm feeding, how your family actually eats, dietary needs and preferences, and what would make mealtime easier in your home.

You'll choose from a rotating menu of meals designed with the postpartum weeks in mind, including family-friendly options for households with older children. I'll shop, cook in your kitchen, clean up afterward, and leave you with food ready for later.

Your family doesn't suddenly stop needing dinner because you had a baby.

Some homes have two adults and a brand-new baby. Some have a toddler who currently accepts four foods. Some have older kids coming home from school starving. Some have grandparents staying for a week. Some have a partner who needs something they can heat up after everyone else has gone to bed.

FOOD FOR YOUR ACTUAL FAMILY.

Just good food, made in your kitchen, for the people who live there.

Long before I ever worked in professional kitchens, I was feeding my own family.

My parents ran their own businesses, which meant I learned pretty young how to get dinner on the table. Eventually, that turned into nearly a decade of cooking professionally—but feeding people was a way I knew how to care for them long before it became my job.

The Keeping brings me back to that.

While I’m in your home, I’ll cook real meals in your kitchen—food chosen with your family in mind, made to nourish the person who just gave birth and feed the people gathered around them.

No meal-prep containers stacked with six identical lunches. No expectation that everyone in your house suddenly wants to eat like they’re on a wellness retreat.

I’ve always known how to care for people by feeding them.

the table.

Everyone gets to be held a little.

Whether this is your first baby or your fourth, whether your home includes a partner, older children, grandparents, chosen family—or some combination of all of it—we’ll shape the care around the people who call it home.

The Keeping isn’t built around a picture of what postpartum is supposed to look like.

It’s built around the family actually living it.

A new baby changes the rhythm of an entire home.

Sometimes what you need is someone to hold the baby while you shower, eat something warm, or simply have your hands to yourself for a little while.

And sometimes it’s noticing what needs doing before you have to ask.

I’m not coming to care for a baby.
I’m coming to care
for a family that just had one.

the Family.

04. You Keep Living

At the end of each visit, there’s food in the fridge, the kitchen has been reset, a load of laundry is farther along than it was before, and hopefully your house feels a little lighter.

Then I leave.

You get your home back.

And a few days later, we do it again.

03. I Come to You

For six weeks, I’ll come to your home one or two times each week, depending on the care you’ve chosen.

Every visit can look a little different.

Maybe I’m cooking while you feed the baby. Switching laundry while your toddler tells me an extremely long story. Or maybe you hand me the baby and go take the world’s longest shower.

There are things I’ll reliably take care of every visit—and room for me to notice what would help that particular day.

02. Baby Arrives

You have your baby.

I do not immediately appear at your door holding a casserole. 😂

We'll check in and decide together when you're ready for your first visit.

The Keeping begins when it feels useful to you.

01. Before Baby

We’ll talk before your due date about your family, the way your household runs, what everyone actually eats, and what would make those first weeks feel a little easier.

This is when you'll choose meals, tell me about dietary needs, talk about older children, laundry quirks, pets, preferences—all the little things that let me walk into your home already knowing it a little.

Six weeks of care, shaped around your family.

How the keeping works.

you’ll have a record of what it felt like to live it.

Over our six weeks together, I’ll photograph your family as life is actually happening.

Not during a scheduled session, but in the middle of the days we’re already sharing—the way your baby sleeps against your chest, your older child perched beside me in the kitchen, the place you always sit to feed them, the tiny details of your home, all of you slowly becoming this new version of your family.

There’s nothing to prepare for. No outfits to coordinate. No house to clean.

At the end of our six weeks together, you’ll have not only been cared for through this season—

Whichever rhythm you choose, the care—and the remembering—are part of it.

Some families want one dependable day each week. Others want more hands around during those earliest weeks. The Keeping can be shaped around the amount of care that feels right for your family.

The rhythm is the same.

How much support you want within it is up to you.

six weeks. your way.

Every Keeping collection is six weeks of in-home postpartum care. Every visit is five hours, with time to make something good, tend to the house, and pay attention to what would make that particular day feel a little lighter.

There isn’t a stripped-down version of The Keeping.

Every family receives the full experience: food, care for the home, an extra set of capable hands, and documentary photography throughout our six weeks together.

The photography alone is the kind of work I ordinarily offer as a standalone family experience. Here, it becomes part of the care.

You’re simply choosing how often you’d like me to walk through the door.

The care stays the same.

You choose the rhythm.

the keeping collections

$5,000

Six weeks
One five-hour visit each week
6 visits · 30 hours of in-home care

For families who want one dependable day each week when someone else is paying attention to what needs doing.

I’ll come into your home, make the food, tend to the everyday things piling up around you, and leave things a little easier than I found them.

A steady hand.

the keeping i

$7,000

Six weeks
Two five-hour visits each week
for Weeks 1–3
One five-hour visit each week
for Weeks 4–6
9 visits · 45 hours of in-home care

More hands in the earliest, blurriest weeks, followed by a gentler rhythm as your family begins finding its footing.

I’ll be there twice a week at the beginning, when everything is new and the days have a funny way of disappearing. Then, as life begins settling into its new shape, we’ll ease into one visit each week.

More care when everything is newest.

the keeping II

$9,000

Six weeks
Two five-hour visits each week
12 visits · 60 hours of in-home care

For families who want The Keeping woven more fully into those first six weeks.

I’ll be there twice each week—keeping food in the fridge, tending to the house, and making a little more room for your family to simply be together.

More room to settle in.

the keeping III

FOR EVERY FAMILY HELD

A portion of every Keeping experience is set aside to help provide care for another family—because support in the postpartum season should not belong only to those who can easily afford it.

Family photography is ordinarily a service of its own. With The Keeping, documentary photography is woven throughout all six weeks of our time together.

There’s no photography day to schedule. No getting everyone dressed. No clearing everything off the nightstand five minutes before I arrive.

When there’s something worth remembering, I’ll pick up my camera.

At the end of our six weeks together, you’ll receive an edited gallery telling the story of this season—not only what your baby looked like, but what your life looked like while you were learning them.

Six weeks, remembered.

I won’t arrive with a rigid checklist.

Some days the laundry needs us. Some days the kitchen does. Some days you need me to hold the baby for twenty minutes so you can shower and eat something with both hands.

We’ll pay attention to what would make that particular day feel lighter.

Care that responds to the day.

Laundry, fresh sheets, dishes, kitchen resets, light tidying, and care for the everyday things that keep a home running.

A home-support assistant joins me for part of our visits so there are enough hands to tend to the house without rushing through the rest of our time together.

A home that asks a little less of you.

Each visit includes time in the kitchen making food for the days ahead—not just dinner that night.

I’ll typically leave you with something for breakfast, something easy to grab when you realize you haven’t eaten, a full family meal with plenty for leftovers, and something simple and comforting like a soup or stew.

The exact menu will change from week to week and family to family. We’ll choose food around how your household actually eats, what sounds good to you, dietary needs, and what will make feeding everyone feel easier.

Food is planned for a household of up to four, and I’ll grocery shop, cook in your kitchen, package everything up, and clean up afterward.

The goal isn’t a refrigerator full of identical meal-prep containers.

It’s opening the fridge tomorrow morning and realizing someone already thought about you.

Food, made at home.

every keeping includes:

The following can be added to any Keeping collection for an additional fee.

I’m not here so you can leave your family with me.

I’m here so you can be with your family with less to carry.

The Keeping is designed to care for the household around you so you have less to carry. It isn’t intended to replace a nanny, babysitter, or housecleaning service.

Babies and older children will naturally be part of our days together. I’m happy to hold your baby while you shower, make your toddler a snack, or welcome a little helper into the kitchen. A parent or other responsible caregiver will remain home during our visits.

And while we’ll absolutely tackle laundry, dishes, fresh sheets and everyday tidying, The Keeping isn’t deep cleaning.

a note about the care i provide

*ANOTHER DAY

Sometimes you get a few weeks in and realize you could really use another day.

Additional five-hour Keeping visits can be added during our six weeks together as availability allows.

When our six weeks end, I can leave a little care behind.

*for later

During our final week together, I’ll prepare a collection of freezer meals made to go straight into your slow cooker or oven on the days when figuring out dinner feels like one thing too many.

A few weeks later, you can pull one from the freezer, turn on the slow cooker, and let the house smell like someone cooked for you again.

Available as an add-on to any Keeping collection.

*a bigger table

The Keeping includes food for a household of up to four.

If there are more people regularly gathered around your table, we can simply make more.

We’ll adjust the amount of food I shop for and prepare to make sure there’s enough for everyone regularly eating at home.

The Keeping is meant to feel complete as it is.

But families are different, and sometimes a little more makes sense.

A LITTLE MORE, IF YOU NEED IT

DO I NEED TO HAVE ANYTHING READY BEFORE YOU COME?

Very little.

Before our first visit, we’ll have already talked through how your family eats, dietary needs, laundry quirks, pets, preferences, and the little things that will help me walk into your home already knowing it a bit.

You don’t need to clean. You don’t need to grocery shop for me. You don’t need to come up with a list of jobs before every visit.

When I arrive, we’ll check in about how things are going and what would make that particular day feel lighter.

Then you get to stop managing me.

Is The Keeping a cleaning service?

No. Laundry, dishes, fresh sheets, kitchen resets and everyday tidying are part of the care; deep cleaning isn't.

Can I add more visits if I realize I need them?

Absolutely, as availability allows. Sometimes you don’t know what kind of support will feel most useful until you’re actually living those first weeks.

If you begin with one rhythm and realize you’d really love another day here or there, additional five-hour visits can be added during our six weeks together when my schedule allows.

What if my baby comes early or late?

Babies are famously uninterested in calendars.
We’ll reserve space around your due date rather than treating it like an appointment. Once your baby arrives, we’ll check in and decide when you’re ready for me to begin. Your six weeks start with your first visit—not with your due date.

What kind of food will you make?

You'll choose from a rotating menu built around four categories: something for breakfast, something easy to grab, a substantial family meal with leftovers, and something especially nourishing/comforting with the postpartum parent in mind. We'll account for allergies, dietary needs, preferences, and how your family actually eats.

Are groceries included?

Yes. The groceries I need to prepare your Keeping menu are included in your collection. Before each visit, I’ll shop for what I need and bring it with me, so you don’t need to make sure the fridge is stocked before I arrive.

My grocery shopping is specifically for the food I’ll be preparing during our time together, rather than general household grocery runs. If you’re out of milk, diapers, coffee, or the very specific crackers your toddler has decided are the only acceptable food this week, those will still be yours to keep track of.

What if there are more than four people in our household?

No problem. The collections include food for households of up to four, and additional food can be added for a larger household.

A few things you might be wondering:

When does the keeping begin?

Not necessarily the day you come home from the hospital. We'll check in after baby arrives and decide together when having me there would actually feel useful.

Do I need to be home during visits?

Yes. This isn't childcare or babysitting. You—or another responsible caregiver—will remain home, but you absolutely do not need to entertain me. Sleep. Shower. Feed the baby. Watch TV. Exist. 😂

Do I need to clean before you come?

Please don't. Truly. That defeats the entire point.

Will you photograph us every time you're here?

Maybe, but not necessarily. There's no scheduled photography portion of a visit. You'll photograph when something feels worth remembering, and some visits may naturally contain more photographs than others.

Do we have to be camera-ready?

Absolutely not. No coordinated outfits, clean house, hair and makeup, etc. That's basically the entire point of the photography.

What if I don't want to be photographed one day?

Then I won’t photograph you.

The photography is here to preserve this season, not make you feel like you need to perform through it.

There may be days when you’re happy for me to pick up my camera and days when you’d rather I didn’t. You can tell me at any point, for any reason.

Being cared for never requires being photographed.