Is 1 month of confinement a must?

It's been tough securing a CL these days. I don't even feel comfortable putting down a deposit for them. Caucasians don't do confinement the way we asians do. Can mothers please share their confinement experience? Do you really feel too weak etc to cook confinement meals yourself while taking care of baby? Do we really really a CL/mother to do confinement for us?

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Food wise is not an issue. There’s tingkat for confinement food. I feel that for me, I needed CL more to help with caring for the baby. Because it’s very tiring, and you have other things to worry about/ be occupied with like breastfeeding/pumping etc. And you need rest and time to recover. Also, you can’t really predict if you will have depression/ be extremely emotional - if so, you need all the help you can get. That said, I have friends who didn’t use CL and sailed through. So it depends on you - are you able to take stress and take on multiple duties?

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5y ago

Thank you for sharing your experience