Sitting the Month: Postpartum Recipes for Rest & Recovery

A nourishing and restorative guide to eating well after childbirth, with recipes informed by traditional Chinese medicine.

When Clarissa Wei gave birth to her first child, she was living in Taiwan, where the postpartum period lasts four weeks and is considered one of the most important periods of a woman’s life. The practice of “sitting the month” includes therapeutic herbs and warming meals—stir-fried pork liver, chicken simmered with rice wine and sesame oil, or steamed cod with goji berri...