Dateline follows SBS World News' presenter Janice Petersen to Taiwan where the ancient Chinese practice of postpartum confinement has been given a modern twist. She meets the new parents who are spending a month in a luxury postnatal hotel and those doing traditional confinement at home.
00:00 Janice Petersen looks back on her early motherhood experience
01:15 One experience that unites Taiwanese mothers
02:22 What is Chinese postpartum confinement or zuo yue zi
03:01 A luxury confinement centre in Taipei
04:21 From Los Angeles to Taiwan
05:53 What's on offer at a luxury post-birth hotel?
07:43 High-tech nursery
09:17 Why women choose confinement centres over traditional confinement at home
11:19 The cost of luxury confinement
11:55 What traditional home confinement is like
18:18 The impact of confinement on new mothers' mental health
18:38 Life after the confinement centre
20:47 When grandma is a professional confinement nanny
22:26 Is it time to change our Western approach?
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