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Confinement services directory

A curated directory of Australian confinement services: meal and soup delivery, nannies, doulas, Chinese medicine practitioners and free perinatal support.

This directory is curated and growing, not exhaustive. A listing here is not an endorsement, and details, coverage and prices change often, so confirm current offerings directly with each service. It is general information, not medical or financial advice.

By city

Meal and soup delivery

Fresh confinement meals cooked and delivered, or pre-measured soup and tea packages to make at home. Fresh-meal delivery is usually city-limited; dry packages often ship nationwide.

  • Aunty Alice Food Perth

    Warm, nourishing confinement meals for postnatal recovery, in Perth (from around 80 to 95 dollars a day).

  • Confinement Mothers Perth

    Traditional Malaysian and Chinese confinement meals with herbs, in Perth; 14, 28 and 40-day packages.

  • Golden Month Australia-wide

    Stage-based confinement soup, tea and herbal bath packages shipped Australia-wide, plus fresh chef-prepared meals in Sydney.

  • Good Taste Kitchen (月子餐) Brisbane

    Confinement meals cooked fresh each morning from a licensed Brisbane kitchen; pickup or delivery to hospitals and homes, seven days.

  • Happymoon (好悦堂) Melbourne

    Melbourne confinement meal delivery (月子餐).

  • LA Moon Kitchen Perth (月善) Perth

    Freshly made postpartum meals, family-style dishes and catering, in Perth.

  • Mum's Love Melbourne

    Southeast Asian style confinement catering, cooked and delivered daily in Melbourne.

  • The S Lab Sydney

    Customised confinement meal plans with a one-day trial, delivered around Sydney (Ashfield).

  • Taste For Life (紫金堂) Sydney, Melbourne

    Fresh daily confinement meal delivery in Sydney and Melbourne; 10 to 42-day packages.

  • Wellness With Chai Melbourne

    Confinement catering spanning Chinese, Malaysian and Singaporean menus, in Melbourne.

Confinement centres and retreats

Residential postpartum care, still rare in Australia. Confirm current availability and what each stay includes directly.

  • Baby Love (愛寶貝) 3 cities

    Postnatal care centre and at-home confinement care (坐月 / 月子餐), with locations in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.

  • Borne Sydney

    Postpartum wellness hotel in Double Bay with 24/7 midwife, lactation and doula care, and a Chinese confinement menu option.

In-home confinement care

Practitioner-led postpartum care in your own home, blending confinement practice with clinical support.

Confinement nannies and platforms

Experienced pui yuet (陪月 / 月嫂) are often found through community networks and the platforms below. Always check references and the right to work.

Chinese medicine and acupuncture

For postpartum acupuncture, moxibustion or herbs, choose a practitioner registered with the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia, and tell them you are recently postpartum.

  • Acu8 Health Perth

    Postnatal acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and massage, in Nedlands and Carine.

  • Balanced Life Health Care Melbourne

    Postpartum acupuncture and moxibustion ("mother warming") during the confinement period, in Ferntree Gully.

  • Confinement Care Sydney

    In-home Chinese-medicine confinement support: consultations, herbal medicine and acupuncture across the confinement period (坐月子 / 陪月).

  • Kirsty Eng Brisbane

    Postpartum wellness program in Paddington: acupuncture, moxibustion, herbs and nutrition across the first weeks.

  • Qi Medicine Melbourne

    Postpartum acupuncture, moxibustion and herbs in Moonee Ponds, framed around zuo yue zi.

  • Quiescence Chinese Medicine Melbourne

    Postnatal Chinese medicine and "mother warming" treatment in Fitzroy North.

  • The Dao Health Sydney

    Postpartum acupuncture framed around "sitting the month", in Burraneer and Randwick.

Free support

Confinement is a recovery tradition, not a substitute for care. These national services are free and do not need a Medicare card.