Julia

Hello, I’m Julia.

For more than ten years I have cooked for and cared for new mothers across Greater Vancouver — in Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby and beyond. I am a Canada-registered postpartum doula, a Cantonese confinement-meal cook, and a mother of three. I have sat beside more than a thousand families through the quiet, exhausting, beautiful first month after birth.

I started this guide because so many of the questions I hear are the same — What should I eat in the first week? Is it true I can’t drink cold water? My mother in Hong Kong says one thing, the nurse here says another — who is right? These are good questions, and they deserve careful, honest answers rather than marketing.

So that is what you’ll find here: plain, warm guidance on confinement meals and recovery, written from a Cantonese tradition and grounded in modern nutrition — for families here in Canada, and for those still planning from Taiwan and Hong Kong.