Julia's Kitchen Postpartum Guide

Postpartum Guides

Every Julia's Kitchen guide, grouped by your postpartum journey — confinement meals, the sitting month, recovery, feeding, your baby, and arranging care.

Confinement Meals

A spread of Cantonese confinement meals — nourishing soup, steamed fish, ginger rice and red-date tea on a warm ivory table

Cantonese Confinement Meals (月子餐)

The flagship guide

A clear Cantonese long-simmered soup of chicken feet, peanuts, black-eyed beans, red dates and ginger in a clay pot

Peanut, Black-Eyed Bean and Chicken-Feet Soup

Nourishing soup

A clay pot of Cantonese pork knuckle in sweet black rice vinegar with old ginger and eggs

Pork Knuckle in Sweet Ginger Vinegar

Postpartum tonic

A warm cup of Cantonese toasted rice tea beside a pan of golden dry-roasted rice grains

Roasted Rice Tea

Confinement drink

Recovery & the Month

A new mother resting warmly in a bright Greater Vancouver home with a bowl of Cantonese confinement soup on the table beside her

The Confinement Month (坐月子)

What 坐月子 really means

A new mother resting calmly on a sofa in soft daylight with a warm bowl of nourishing soup, recovering gently after birth

Postpartum Recovery — Your Body After Birth

Healing, week by week

A new mother sitting quietly by a sunlit window holding her baby, a calm and supported moment of rest

Postpartum Mental Health

Caring for your mind, too

Feeding & Baby

A calm new mother breastfeeding her baby in soft daylight, a warm bowl of nourishing soup on the table beside her

Breastfeeding & Milk Supply

How feeding really works

A newborn baby sleeping peacefully on its back in a clear, safe crib in a softly lit room

Newborn Basics

The first weeks with your baby

Help & Planning

A postpartum doula in a bright Greater Vancouver kitchen handing a tray of Cantonese confinement soup to a new mother resting with her baby

Hiring Confinement Help in Greater Vancouver

Doula, 月嫂, 陪月 or a centre?

An open suitcase beside a Vancouver kitchen window — a thermos of warm soup, dried red dates and ginger, and a notebook of confinement plans on a soft ivory table

Planning a Vancouver Birth and Confinement

For overseas families