Would you use this postpartum service?

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I'm thinking to start up a business offering a postpartum wellbeing service. I lived in the middle east + N Africa for several years and the women there have a 40 day rest period postpartum, where they get special food made for them with certain ingredients that are high in protein and nutrients that nourish and 'warm' the body. This is mostly in the form of several types of soups. I'm an experienced mother of 5 DC who are older now. I have a masters in legal field.

Package 1: A week worth of soup (7 soups) delivered to your door. You could select which type of soups, day 1 (and possibly 2) would be fresh, the remaining ones frozen.

Cost, Inc delivery £35

Package 2: wellbeing visits, where I could supervise baby and existing children whilst mum sleeps/bathes/rests. And/or does a 'wellbeing clean', so a surface clean/tidy just to make room looks more presentable, dishes washed, maybe put a wash on etc.

Cost: £16.50 per hour

Package 3: Home from Hospital morning: on morning of discharge I visit your home to change bed sheets, do surface clean of bedroom or wherever else mother will sleep.

Cost: £16.50 per hour. A maximum of 3 hours at a time.

Please give me any feedback and whether you think there will be a market for this.

Have you seen Dutch kraamzorg? We get a nurse for the first week, who does post natal checks. They also make sure you eat properly and clean the house thoroughly, as well as getting blood out of anything that's strained. There are hippy versions that include mum and baby massage.

I wouldn't have wanted a stranger in my home PP and the food I wanted was familiar, comforting, nourishing food... not special PP dishes I had no connection with. I absolutely would not have wanted a stranger to watch my children whilst I cleaned (cleaning was pretty much DH's job until I was healed anyway).

I did have a supportive DH and family around me though. I might have felt differently if I had limited support available to me.

Sorry op the soup doesn’t appeal at all.

PPs are making a really valid point that we rarely have free hands or aren’t nap trapped in order to eat soup properly.

While ‘nourishing’ i would doubt it would provide enough energy.

Someone gifted me frozen ‘Cook’ ready meals for this specific package. They were great and more substantial than soup.

It would also surely be just as quick and cheaper to order an online supermarket delivery that included fresh soup?

When you say ‘put a wash on’, what do you mean? It’s not shoving some washing in a machine that’s hard. It’s hanging it up if you don’t have a dryer, and then actually putting it all away that’s the hard bit.

Agree would want a deep clean, and would not pay for a ‘surface clean’.

After my 2 c sections i needed physical help with the baby, and absolutely needed overnight help with sleep as i had 2 horrendous sleepers.