Helper Profile

Our experience was incredible! Our nanny, Annie, was Chinese and experienced in traditional Chinese confinement. She was with us for 30 days. She was first and foremost a baby-whisperer and taught us so much about caring for a newborn. She really put my mind at ease. She was also an amazing chef and cooked all healthy foods focused on recovery and breast milk production. She was a lactation specialist and brewed multiple teas daily to help in my recovery and production. She also did belly and back massage and had a steam chair I used. I learned after having a baby your body is cold and so you only eat and drink warm foods, we kept the temperature raised in the house and stayed bundled up which was strange for August in Dallas! Keeping warm was part of recovery. Between her caring for baby girl and cooking, brewing teas and my husband doing household chores I was able to stay in bed for the first 2 weeks. During that time I rested, ate and nursed. Then after the 2 weeks, I still mainly was in bed but got up to move around a bit more and more. By the last week I was downstairs trying to learn some of the recipes Annie cooked up. She became part of our little family and I cried when she left. But felt so much better and more confident than I would have been without her. - Shannon