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Confinement services directory

A directory of US confinement services: meal delivery, yue sao and postpartum doulas, Chinese medicine practitioners, herb shops and free national 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.

Looking for a residential confinement centre? Most US results for that search are businesses selling a stay around giving birth in America, not postpartum care. We explain how to tell the difference here
By metro

Confinement meal delivery

Cooked confinement meals delivered daily, and frozen or dry packages posted further afield. Fresh delivery is metro-limited; frozen packages often ship interstate.

  • Taiwanese-style postpartum meal delivery service, operating since 2011 out of Flushing, offering confinement meal plans plus wellness soups, women's-cycle meals, and post-surgery and miscarriage-recovery menus.

  • Gracemeals Los Angeles

    A small Mt. Washington (Los Angeles) postpartum meal-prep kitchen using organic, local, pasture-raised ingredients, offering frozen portions or custom meal prep for new parents.

  • New Jersey-based (Livingston, NJ) Taiwanese-style postpartum meal delivery service offering 28/30/42-day phased confinement meal plans made and delivered fresh daily, plus post-surgery and miscarriage-recovery meals.

  • Long-running Chinese and Hong Kong style confinement meal company based in Walnut, with same-day fresh delivery across LA and frozen meals and herbal packages shipped interstate.

  • Ma's Oasis Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley

    Los Angeles Chinese confinement meal delivery service preparing and delivering fresh daily postpartum meals on TCM principles.

  • Chinese-influenced postpartum meal delivery in Boston offering full-day, half-day, no-soup and soup-only packages for 1-30 days, billed as 'Boston's first postpartum meal delivery'.

  • Taiwanese-style postpartum meal delivery business serving the Flushing/Fresh Meadows area of Queens; phone 718-697-1664 per directory listings.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • The US branch of Taiwanese confinement-meal brand Cowamom (廣和), based in Sunnyvale, delivering daily postpartum meals built on a named TCM doctor's postpartum recovery theory to homes, hospitals, or confinement centers.

  • A Bay Area postpartum meal delivery service offering 12-13 dish daily confinement meal plans for 14, 30, 32, and 40-day durations.

  • A small East Bay confinement meal delivery service, operating since 2019 out of Fremont, offering daily fresh postpartum meals (soups, stir-fries, noodles, dim sum) with free morning delivery.

  • Confinement meal kitchen operating since 2010 in Hacienda Heights, offering 30, 42, 50 and 100-day postpartum meal packages.

  • A Taiwan/TCM-practitioner-founded postpartum meal delivery service (also lists a herbal remedy package) based in San Jose, serving Bay Area families with confinement and miscarriage-recovery meal plans.

  • A Bay Area-wide confinement meal delivery service combining Chinese herbal food therapy (藥膳) with modern cooking, using a health-questionnaire-driven customized menu and online ordering system.

  • A small home-run confinement meal delivery service based near Bellevue Way, offering weekly rotating menus of traditional postpartum dishes (e.g. sesame oil chicken rice, ginger pork leg soup) ordered via WeChat/email.

Confinement nannies and doulas

Experienced yue sao (月嫂) and bilingual postpartum doulas, placed through the agencies and platforms below. Check references, and confirm the right to work before anyone moves in.

  • Multilingual caregiver-matching platform where families post for or browse vetted Chinese-speaking confinement nannies (yuesao), with self-service and concierge tiers.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • A San Francisco-based Chinese postpartum confinement doula/nanny service also listed on Yelp as "Chinese Postpartum Confinement," run under the tagline of 30+ years of postpartum and newborn care experience for Bay Area families.

  • Cooings San Gabriel Valley

    Bilingual Mandarin and Cantonese postpartum doula booking platform placing live-in and overnight doulas across the San Gabriel Valley.

  • A Flushing-based domestic-help agency offering hourly help, caregiving and 月嫂 (postpartum nanny) placement, reachable in English, Fuzhounese/Cantonese and Mandarin via separate phone lines.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • Confinement nanny (yue sao) placement agency based in Monterey Park since 2011, placing live-in Chinese postpartum caregivers across Los Angeles.

  • An independent postpartum doula serving Seattle and Bellevue who offers Asian-inspired postpartum/confinement care, including overnight support, meal prep, newborn guidance, and belly binding, customizable to how traditional the family wants it.

Postpartum recovery studios

Day-visit recovery care rather than a residential stay: body recovery, pelvic floor work and postpartum treatments you travel to and come home from.

Chinese medicine and acupuncture

For postpartum acupuncture, moxibustion or herbs, use a practitioner licensed in your state and tell them you are recently postpartum. Licensing is state by state, not national.

  • Sacramento acupuncture clinic with a dedicated postpartum service line alongside its fertility and pregnancy care.

  • Los Angeles acupuncture and TCM clinic with a dedicated postpartum acupuncture service covering hormonal, pain and lactation support.

  • TCM/acupuncture clinic with Boston and Needham, MA locations that lists postpartum depression and related maternal conditions among the fertility and women's-health issues it treats.

  • Licensed acupuncture and herbal clinic on E Valley Blvd, San Gabriel offering TCM treatment including postpartum recovery.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • Acupuncture and Reiki clinic at 9039 Katy Freeway, Houston that treats postpartum imbalances (fatigue, sweating, mood) using Traditional Chinese Medicine alongside general women's-health and fertility acupuncture.

  • Sacramento acupuncture and Chinese herbal clinic listing postpartum recovery among its named specialties.

  • A licensed acupuncture clinic in Oakland with a dedicated postpartum acupuncture program (in-office and home visits) explicitly framed around the East Asian postpartum "Golden Month."

  • Pasadena acupuncture and Chinese medicine clinic offering postpartum recovery with acupuncture, moxibustion, herbs and nutrition, with house calls available.

  • A licensed acupuncture/TCM clinic in Oakland offering a home-visit postpartum program in the first week after birth, including herbal prescriptions, acupuncture, moxibustion ("mother warming"), and belly binding.

  • Orange County women's health acupuncture practice offering postpartum acupuncture and in-home postpartum and lactation visits.

  • Healing with Zen Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley

    A Pasadena acupuncture/TCM practice (serving San Marino, Arcadia, La Cañada and Altadena since 2013) offering postpartum-specific herbal formulas and acupuncture for depression, mastitis, back/hip pain and fatigue during the "Golden Month."

  • Irvine acupuncture clinic offering postpartum acupuncture for hormonal regulation, pain, sleep and lactation support.

  • West Los Angeles acupuncture and Chinese herbal practice with dedicated postpartum treatment for pain, hormonal balance, digestion and mood.

  • A multi-location TCM clinic with several Flushing addresses (plus one in Middletown, NY) staffed by New York-licensed acupuncturists offering gynecological conditioning and postpartum-related care alongside fertility treatment.

  • San Diego acupuncture practice offering integrative postpartum home visits and moxibustion.

  • Licensed-acupuncturist clinic in Rockville, MD (practitioner Aiyun Li, CMD) that explicitly advertises 'Post-Partum Care' alongside fertility, IUI/IVF support and menstrual-health acupuncture, near Shady Grove Fertility Center.

  • TCM and structural-bodywork clinic in Katy, TX offering postpartum recovery treatment (pelvic/sacral alignment, soft tissue release, moxibustion, herbal guidance) starting after OB clearance around 6 weeks postpartum.

  • West Los Angeles TCM clinic running a structured postpartum programme combining herbs from within days of delivery and acupuncture from around two weeks.

  • Henderson acupuncture clinic listing postpartum recovery among its specialties and offering moxibustion.

  • Portland acupuncture and Chinese herbal clinic whose practitioner holds postgraduate certification in prenatal, birth and postpartum care.

  • A Flushing TCM clinic near the Main Street #7 subway station offering acupuncture, herbal medicine and physical therapy; markets itself in Chinese-language channels as a leading local pain-and-wellness practice.

Herb shops and ingredients

Shops that carry the herbs a confinement diet calls for. Most are general Chinese herbalists rather than confinement specialists, so ring ahead and ask whether they put together a postpartum package.

  • Long-standing Irvine Chinese medicine shop selling a wide range of herbal products.

  • The largest Chinese herbal dispensary on the East Coast, in Manhattan's Chinatown since the 1970s, staffed by certified herbalists who fill custom raw-herb formulas including postpartum recovery blends (an in-house blog post discusses TCM postpartum care specifically).

  • TCM herbal clinic and online store at 9614 Vilven Ln, Houston, offering personalized formula consultations including a 'Maternal Comfort' women's-health/pregnancy-recovery formula, though it is not a dedicated confinement-package specialist.

  • A long-running (~30 years) Flushing herbal pharmacy on Main Street selling Tong Ren Tang-brand and other Chinese herbal products, including a dedicated postpartum/gynecological wellness package, with nationwide shipping and WeChat custom-formula ordering.

  • Ginseng and Chinese herbs retailer on W Valley Blvd, San Gabriel carrying herbs commonly used in confinement packages.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • Long-running Chinese herbal and ginseng retailer in Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza carrying dried herbs and tonics.

  • Walk-in Chinese herbal and tea shop in LA Chinatown, cited as a source local confinement nannies use for herbs and ginseng.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • Herbal and ginseng shop on E Valley Blvd, San Gabriel operating since 1994, compounding custom formulas including confinement herb packages.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • A long-established Chinese herb, ginseng and tea retailer with storefronts in Arcadia and Monterey Park, commonly used locally for herb consultations and postpartum-recovery ingredients (ginseng, tonics, dried goods).

  • A Wisconsin-ginseng specialty retailer at 40-20 Main St, Flushing, selling American ginseng and related tonics commonly used in postpartum nourishment.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • Chinese ginseng and herbal medicine retailer in the Las Vegas Chinatown corridor.

    No website of its own — this link goes to a listing page.

  • A Blaine, WA-based seller of Chinese confinement herb and DIY meal products (herbal soup bases, red date tea, black bean water, and its signature fermented glutinous rice "confinement water"), shipping nationwide across the US.

Wherever you are

Services that are not tied to one metro. Outside the big Chinese-American population centres, these are usually the whole of what is available.

Ships anywhere

Confinement meals, herb packages and ingredients posted nationally, which is often the only option outside the big metros.

  • Golden Month

    Confinement soups, lactation teas and herbal baths put together by stage of the month, now shipping across the US. Also does a 14-day miscarriage support package.

  • JingMommy

    Thirty-day zuo yue zi meal packages frozen and shipped overnight across the country, from a kitchen in Walnut, California.

  • Weee!

    Asian grocery delivery carrying the confinement staples: sesame oil, rice wine, red dates, dried longan and ginger.

  • Yami

    Asian online grocer stocking dried herbs, tonics and confinement ingredients, shipped nationally.

Finding care across states

Platforms that place postpartum doulas and nannies wherever you are, useful where there is no local Chinese-speaking agency.

  • BornBir

    Marketplace for booking postpartum doulas and newborn care, searchable by location and language.

  • DoulaMatch.net

    Long-running directory for finding birth and postpartum doulas by area, with availability shown by month.

  • NannyFYI

    Bilingual platform for finding Chinese-speaking nannies and yue sao, with listings across most large metros.

  • The Doula Network

    Doula network that bills some insurance plans directly, which can bring postpartum support within reach.

Checking credentials

Before someone moves into your home or treats you, these are the bodies whose registers you can search. Acupuncture is licensed state by state in the US, not nationally.

  • DONA International

    Certifies birth and postpartum doulas, and lets you confirm whether someone holds a current certification.

  • IBLCE

    Certifies lactation consultants (IBCLCs), the credential to look for on anyone advising you about feeding.

  • NCBAHM (formerly NCCAOM)

    National certification body for acupuncture and herbal medicine, renamed from NCCAOM. Your state board issues the actual licence.

Free support

Confinement is a recovery tradition, not a substitute for care. These national services are free, and none of them need insurance.