Category / Notes / On Parenting / On Taiwan
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Too much love for too few encounters of childhood
Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates worldwide. It might thus either surprise you or not surprise you at all that both its infrastructure and society are enviable and adorable when it comes to children. Taiwan’s infrastructure proves that engineering in its rationality is anything but cold. We have yet to find a place…
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An offer you can refuse
A nice tradition in Taiwan and China is 坐月子 zuò yuè zǐ, postpartum confinement. It’s a one month period immediately after birth during which mother and child get time to rest, heal, and find strength again. Usually mothers spend that time in bed and have others like a granny take care of them. Nowadays, a…
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Giving birth to a dragon
The Taiwanese health care system is amazing and among the best in the world. We generally trust it. And yet cultures are different and there is always only so much you know you don’t know. Episiotomies are widely more common here than elsewhere, for example, and we wanted to go without them—unless necessary, of course.…
