SARA COLE
Postpartum Doula & Postpartum Practitioner
with a focus on Food & Body Support
based in Greensboro, Alabama
I’m Sara Cole, a postpartum and nourishment doula offering personal, in-home support to families in the weeks after birth. My work centers on food, rest, and presence — the practical, grounding foundations that support recovery, confidence, and a sense of comfort during a tender and demanding time.
I come to this work with more than eight years of experience in cooking and community-based food work, along with a long personal practice rooted in nourishment, physical care, and sustainable routines. I also hold a background in personal training and body-based care, and can guide Mothers with gentle restorative movement to support body-awareness and progressive recovery. I believe deeply in the role that food and daily care play in postpartum recovery — not as extras, but as essential supports that shape how a mother heals, adapts, and begins to understand who she is becoming.
My approach is hands-on and relational. I prepare nourishing meals, offer emotional support, and provide practical help around the house — tending to the small, necessary tasks that can feel overwhelming in the early weeks. I aim to be a steady presence: someone who notices what’s needed, responds thoughtfully, and helps create space for each the Mother to feel fully supported.
My care is non-medical and shaped by respect for tradition, cultural practices, lived experience, and each family’s rhythm and needs. I believe postpartum support should feel grounding — not prescriptive or performative. It’s my goal that each woman I work with feels supported as she recovers, reconnects with her body, and steps into this next chapter with clarity and confidence.
I live in Greensboro, Alabama with my husband Robert and son Theo. While my daily care is focused in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, I am able to travel longer distances for extended periods if it feels like a comfortable fit.
THE DOULA
feeding your mind, body, spirit and baby.
the support of a food doula
Food is central to my postpartum work because nourishment is foundational to recovery after birth. The postpartum body is repairing tissue, regulating hormones, and adjusting to the demands of early care, often with little rest. Long before postpartum care was medicalized or marketed, many cultures understood this and responded with warm, sustaining food meant to support healing over time.
My approach draws from these traditional practices rather than modern wellness trends. I focus on wholesome, flavorful food that supports digestion and replenishment, not restriction or optimization. In a season of profound change, nourishment should feel steady and generous, offering continuity as a woman moves through one of the most transformative periods of her life.
my journey to this point
Food has always been at the center of my life and work. After years in the food industry and running my own traveling kitchen, feeding people in both professional and community settings, I began to feel a pull toward work that allowed for deeper, more personal impact. I wanted to be closer to the people I was caring for, and to the moments when nourishment truly matters.
That clarity came through caring for mothers during their postpartum periods and was further shaped by my own experience of becoming a mother. Witnessing the intensity and vulnerability of this season — both personally and alongside others — made it clear that this was where my skills belonged. I chose to shift my work toward postpartum care so that my relationship with food, care, and presence could be applied in a way that felt meaningful, intimate, and responsive.
My postpartum practice is an extension of that path: a convergence of feeding, care, and lived experience, offered in service of women as they move through one of the most transformative transitions of their lives.