Hot Asian Mom: Loving Moms 2

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For Asian women, did you participate in the one-month sitting period, and if so, how did that affect your postpartum recovery (both positively and negatively)?

Finally, Asian cultures operate on the concept of “saving face,” which requires doing whatever you can to preserve your dignity and honor. For a traditional Asian person, what we think of as "alternative" is actually traditional and has been a part of their culture for centuries. As the growing pressure to be beautiful gets even heavier in Asia, is it right to pin these expectations onto mothers as well? Thankfully I am in touch with myself enough to realize that this wasn’t normal, and marched myself off to a doctor, saving face be dammed!

Also, I completely know what you mean about the Asian culture being open to "alternative medicines" but skeptical about modern medicine. Critics have swooned over the movie’s hot dog fingers, the butt plug fight scenes, the trippy zigzags through possible worlds, but stripped of its zaniness, the indie sleeper dominating the Oscars is essentially the story of an aging Asian American mom confronting her very real flaws to reach her daughter.

I understand the emotional restraint aspect-African Americans practice something similar, we do a lot of "bootstrap" pulling, not taking time to focus on how we feel, deciding instead to just "get over it. Today we’re so happy to welcome Cat, a Chinese-American Warrior Mom, who blogs at Postpartum Thoughts. Like so many, I’d watched the world fall to pieces, first over the pandemic, and then again as the number of anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocketed.Hearing that honestly just upsets me because I only drink ice water– I gag at the thought of room temp water, let alone trying to drink hot water or tea when I’m super thirsty. In hindsight, I was depressed during the last part of my pregnancy but didn't really acknowledge it.