A 40-day app for Chinese postpartum confinement · 坐月子
- Daily recipe
- This week’s shopping list
- Popo’s daily wisdom
Built for diaspora Chinese mothers in the UK, the Netherlands, and every kitchen in between.
Day 1 · the welcome-home screen
You are far from the kitchen this tradition lives in. You will be running on very little sleep. You are already doing beautifully.
Forty days, four phases.
What the body is going through, and why we eat what we eat. Four moments along the arc.
Your body is clearing what it no longer needs. Warm liquid and gentle congee help that close. Rest is the work of this week.
The bleeding has slowed. Close and collect. Dang gui (当归) returns to the kitchen, simmered slowly so the warmth comes back.
The main tonification window. Ten-herb tonic, ginger wine chicken, deep collagen soups. Thirteen days of patient building.
Sustain and transition. Snow fungus and barley balance the warmth of the build phase. The world is coming closer again, on your timing.
The forty days are harder abroad.
Three things mothers tell us, again and again.
Mum and po po are a phone call away.
The knowledge lives in their kitchens, and you are in another kitchen, on another continent. The names you grew up hearing, with no-one in the room to pace them for you.
Decision fatigue, on three hours of sleep.
Week one is not the week to Google “is it too early for ginger?” at 2am. Yue decides it for you, in the right order.
Your partner wants to help, but doesn’t know how.
He wasn’t raised inside this tradition. Explaining it from your bed, in pain, is its own kind of work. Yue does the explaining.
You don’t do the forty days alone.
Yue is built for one mother, and shaped to make life easier for the two people most likely to be cooking with her.
She knows how to support you in this journey.
He becomes part of the forty days.
Tap once, send him this week’s shopping list on WhatsApp with the right pack size for each ingredient and where to buy it nearby. He reads what arrives. He doesn’t need to install Yue if he doesn’t want to.
The explaining, you don’t do from bed.
If she is flying over, she comes prepared.
Mama’s suitcase is a list of dry ingredients she can pack before getting on the plane. Goji, dried longan, red dates, huang qi, the things that travel well and cost less back home. You can also share a single recipe with her, with a personal note, when you want her to see what you’re eating that week.
The forty days are her tradition too. We make space for her in the app.
Start with the first week free.
Enter your dates. Yue sets up the forty days. Days one through seven are on us.
Begin your forty daysThe forty days, ready for you.
- 一65 recipes, confinement-nanny-approved, each with the cultural note po po would give you over the stove.
- 二A day-by-day plan paced by birth type. Natural or C-section. Keep, swap, or skip a dish without losing the rhythm.
- 三A weekly shopping list built from the dishes you kept, telling you where to buy each ingredient near you. One-tap WhatsApp send to your partner.
- 四A family-share card you can send to your mum on WeChat or WhatsApp, and Mama’s suitcase: dry ingredients she can pack if she is flying over.
What you don’t have to pay.
The forty days are a real tradition, and outside of Asia they have a real cost. Here is what you would normally pay.
Hiring a confinement nanny here
If you can find one, four to six weeks live-in. Most diaspora mothers find this is not on the table.
£3,000 to £5,000
Flying mum or po po over
Round-trip flight only. Visa applications, time off, and her being away from her own life are extra.
£1,500 round-trip
Yue, for forty days
One time. No subscription. First week complimentary so you can feel the rhythm before you decide.
£29
Yue is not a confinement nanny and not your mother. It’s the part of their knowledge that fits in your pocket.
First week free. 3-day refund after. We never subscribe you.
Not yet? Get a quiet email when you are closer →Already paid? Sign in →Three things we kept hearing.
Yue was built from a hundred conversations, first with mothers who had just done confinement abroad, then with mothers about to. The same three sentences came back, in different voices.
“I kept googling and the recipes contradicted each other. I gave up and had toast.”
A mother · London
“My mum tried to WhatsApp me through it. I could not read her handwriting, and she does not know the shops here.”
A mother · Amsterdam
“My husband wanted to help. He did not know what dang gui was. He kept asking me while I was breastfeeding.”
A mother · Rotterdam
I knew confinement postpartum was what I really wanted. I am Singaporean. My husband is Dutch. We are in the Netherlands and expecting our first child.
I did not want to give up the forty days just because they were harder here. So I started writing down what my mother would have told me. The order of the dishes, what to skip in week one after a C-section, where to buy dang gui (当归) in Rotterdam. Then I realised how many of us there were. Yue is for every Chinese-heritage mother building this tradition somewhere new.
Roselind Gan · founder
What mothers ask first.
I had a C-section. Will the plan be safe for me?+
Yes. Yue applies different timing rules for natural birth and C-section. Stronger herbs and ginger wine chicken are pushed back about a week so your incision can heal first. Set this in onboarding or in Settings, and the plan adapts.
Are these foods safe while I am breastfeeding?+
The dishes here are food, eaten in Chinese postpartum tradition. We do not claim that any food increases milk supply. Recipes that use rice wine come with a clear note: time feeds two to three hours after eating, or skip the wine. If you take any medication or have a complication, run the herb-based decoctions past your midwife or GP first.
Do I have to be Chinese to use this?+
No. The tradition is rooted in Chinese postpartum care, but the food is for any new mother who wants warm, slow, intentional nourishment in the first forty days. The cultural notes will mean more if Chinese postpartum food is your inheritance.
How does the partner shopping list work?+
On the shopping page, you tap 'Send to partner on WhatsApp'. They get a message with the week's ingredients, the right pack size for each, and where to buy each one near you. They don't have to install Yue if they don't want to. They can if they prefer.
Where is my data stored?+
The most personal details stay on your device. Your due date, birth date, postcode, and partner's phone never leave your phone. On our servers (Supabase, encrypted, located in the EEA) we hold only what we need to recognise you across devices: your email, the country and currency of your payment, and the Mollie payment ID. Card details go to Mollie, never to us. The full breakdown lives on the privacy page.
What is the refund policy?+
Three days, no questions asked. Email hello@yuesaozi.com and we will refund you in full within two working days.
Can I use Yue if I am not in the UK or the Netherlands?+
The recipes and the daily plan work anywhere. The weekly shopping list, however, is currently routed for two markets: in the UK we suggest SeeWoo, Wing Yip, and Ocado; in the Netherlands we suggest Wah Nam Hong, Albert Heijn, and your local slagerij. Outside those two countries, you'll see a generic ingredient list (no shop-specific routing) and you can shop wherever you usually do. If you'd like us to add your country, tell us at hello@yuesaozi.com. We keep a list and prioritise based on demand.
Forty days, paced by your body, decided in the right order.
First week complimentary. £29 after, one time, no subscription.
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Onboarding takes about three minutes.