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Confinement in Australia
Practical guides to confinement in Australia: adapting the tradition far from home, working with family, nannies, costs, and hospital to home.
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Confinement meal delivery and soup packages in Australia
How confinement meal delivery and pre-measured soup packages work in Australia, what to look for, and what they cost. Take the daily cooking off your hands.
Confinement nannies in Australia: cost and how to hire
What a confinement nanny (pui yuet) does, what they cost in Australia, why they are in short supply, and how to find and vet one.
Paid parental leave and confinement in Australia
How the government Paid Parental Leave scheme maps onto the confinement month, including the partner days that let a partner be home to help.
What confinement costs in Australia
A realistic breakdown of what a confinement month costs in Australia, from a do-it-yourself budget to full live-in care, so you can plan what fits.
Adapting the tradition
Making confinement work far from where it grew up.
Bringing parents to Australia to help with confinement
For many families the confinement plan is flying a grandmother in. The visa options for parents visiting Australia, how long they allow, and how early to start.
Doing confinement in an Australian summer
The confinement rule to keep warm was written for cold homes, not a 35 degree Australian summer. How to honour the intent behind it without overheating.
Confinement in Australia: doing zuo yue zi far from home
How to observe Chinese confinement in Australia when the village is overseas: fitting it around the local health system, and the help available here.
Confinement without the village
The hardest part of confinement in Australia is doing it without the family it assumes. How to rebuild that support when your mother and relatives are overseas.
The Australian health system
How confinement fits alongside local maternity care, and where to get help.
Confinement and the Australian maternity system
How Chinese confinement fits alongside Australian postnatal care: the short hospital stay, midwife home visits, the child health nurse, and the six week checks.
Confinement by city
Local meal delivery, nannies and Chinese medicine practitioners, gathered for each capital.
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