https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:09:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492919 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:31:15 +0000 brownepiano 2492919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not Asian but I grew up in Ecuador and they had a similar idea about how to treat women post birth. I think the US is the odd one not encouraging taking care of post birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492906 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 08:54:48 +0000 regberadaisy 2492906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: woohoo!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492701 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:24:46 +0000 sunny 2492701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My month is officially over! I don't feel like I have recovered any faster than anyone else though. In fact, I feel like I'm still not ready to do activities including driving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492698 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:22:47 +0000 regberadaisy 2492698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: lol! </p> <p>@hb3233: you don't even want to know how much chicken I've eaten after my two kids. And it's a specific breed..not just like Perdue from the grocery store. Organic, no hormones/injection, free range was a acceptable substitute for my mom. 🙄 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492667 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:05:01 +0000 hb3233 2492667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL is Asian. She informed me, like soon after I started dating DH, that when we had kids, I must follow the traditional diet (something about a chicken a day) so I would recover quickly like women in Asia. I thought it was completely hokey, but maybe not :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2492633 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:39:36 +0000 pastemoo 2492633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: I LOVE this. &lt;3 I want to go to that hotel! and/or have my mom with me for a month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465606 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:20:16 +0000 snowjewelz 2465606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like I should chime in b/c I'm Chinese, lol .</p> <p>I mean, I think I recovered decently but I don't think it has to do with the fact that I'm Asian!? I did somewhat did a sit-month kinda thing but very lax. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465433 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:37:55 +0000 cat620 2465433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: I wish I had that much support! That sounds wonderful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465431 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:34:53 +0000 regberadaisy 2465431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: I think there are those in the Asian community that believe we heal faster because of "sit month". I did for both girls and by no means did I follow ALL traditional rules. But my mom came and stayed with me for a month plus. She made all my meals, I had a very limited but VERY nutritious diet. I stole a shower post birth at the hospital before my mom came up. :P But after that I couldn't bathe till like 10 days later, because I begged. And it was a herbal concoction bath.</p> <p>Do I believe all of it? Nope. Do I think some of it helps? Absolutely. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465335 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:54:40 +0000 artsyfartsy 2465335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: That sounds wonderful. Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465334 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:43:31 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2465334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol, I'm Asian and I know that isn't true :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465297 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:17:22 +0000 Corduroy 2465297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: He's Chinese and his wife is white. So I was wondering if his family said it about his wife, or his wife said it comparing herself to his family, or if it's a common generalization I've never heard.</p> <p>@psw27: @gingerbebe: I had discussed the idea of a sit month with him before and he wasn't familiar so I don't think that comes into play here. I have a friend from Nigeria that told me about her sit month custom also. Maybe Nigerian women 'recover faster' too.</p> <p>@Mrs. High Heels: I don't really know what he meant. The woman we ran into looked great in terms of being put together, emotionally stable, and looked physically very good but not 'OMG, shut up, there's no way you just had a baby good.' </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465035 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:34:29 +0000 Raindrop 2465035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm Asian and I didn't recover well at all! But I'm another type of Asian girl (I'm super nerdy looking instead of put together fashionable looking). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465033 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:29:48 +0000 BSB 2465033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm asian and I certainly did not recover faster. I actually pushed myself too hard and might have been why I didn't recover as normally. Although, if my mom was around PP, I'm sure she would have yelled at me for trying to do so much stuff. I didn't follow the standard Asian sitting tradition (is that what that is called). Though, I can any non-asian mom telling her daughter to take it easy after giving birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2465022 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:26:10 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 2465022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When he said "recover faster"... did he mean she slimmed down ("bounced back") quickly and looked back to her pre-pregnancy self? What exactly did he mean? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2464811 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:57:38 +0000 gingerbebe 2464811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm Asian and I don't know about recovering faster = looking made up in public, but I know for Koreans and Chinese cultures, there's a strong tradition of post-partum recovery (the month-long lie in you hear about). In Korea, its fairly common to go stay with your mother for a good month while she cooks super nutritious for you and helps care for the baby while you rest and recuperate. Women of greater means also transfer directly from a hospital to a mother-baby hotel of sorts where they can stay for a month or two. They're quite nice - there's usually a fully staffed nursery you can send your baby to between feedings to sleep, there's access to lactation consultants, hospital grade pumps, nutrient dense meals, etc. The idea is grounded in the idea that you will have life-long health problems if you do not invest time and energy to recovering after the trauma of childbirth. My mom stayed with me for 3 weeks (I sent her home) and she basically cooked, cleaned, took the baby when I needed a nap, and fed me gallons and gallons of seaweed soup to purify and detox my body. She also made me stay inside as much as possible because apparently catching a draft will make you ill. I have to imagine this helps women in those cultures recover better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2464806 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:52:41 +0000 psw27 2464806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never heard anything like that.... the only thing I've ever really heard in regard to Asian women postpartum is that some women do the "sit month" or stay in the house/don't shower. That's a pretty broad generalization. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2464798 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:48:47 +0000 regberadaisy 2464798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: is he Asian? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/asian-women-recover-faster#post-2464796 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:47:59 +0000 Corduroy 2464796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just ran into a friend and her new baby. I mentioned to the guy coworker I was with (also a parent of a baby) that the new mama looks great and is putting me to shame 8 month pp. I meant that she was wearing heels, makeup &amp; looked put together. </p> <p>He responded that of course she looks great, Asian women recover faster. Is that a commonly held belief? I had never heard it before but he said it so matter of factly it caught me off guard. &amp; He's usually so factually accurate. Seemed like an odd thing for him to think was true. Ha - he's probably texting his wife or sister asking if that isn't true. </p>