Soon after becoming a mother, Hong Kong resident Sarah Tam enjoyed eight hours of sleep a night and yoga sessions at a post-partum care centre in neighbouring Shenzhen, where carers looked after her newborn around the clock.<\/p>\n
Tam, a 30-year-old social worker who gave birth in mid-July, spent a month at the facility in mainland China, recovering from delivery with total peace of mind.<\/p>\n
She said she felt completely at ease leaving her baby in their care, which allowed \u201cmothers to truly focus on resting\u201d.<\/p>\n
In Hong Kong, new mothers commonly hire a specialised post-partum carer, known locally as a pui yuet, to assist with baby care and recovery at home.<\/p>\n
However, round-the-clock confinement care in the city can cost upwards of HK$70,000 (US$8,927). The steep price tag prompted Tam and her husband to cross the border to a post-partum care centre in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n
For just HK$40,000, Tam stayed in a hotel-style room equipped with a queen-sized bed, en suite bathroom, sofa, steriliser, bottle warmer and fridge.<\/p>\n
The package also covered six meals a day, daily essentials such as nappies and baby clothes, 24-hour newborn care and maternal wellness treatments including massages and facials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soon after becoming a mother, Hong Kong resident Sarah Tam enjoyed eight hours of sleep a night and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[260791,15841,16550,16547,260790,103,397,396,240,260788,61,60,22471,19167,260789,104945,260787,2842,77755,245164],"class_list":["post-614896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-association-of-private-medical-specialists-of-hong-kong","tag-greater-bay-area","tag-guangdong-province","tag-guangzhou","tag-guangzhou-united-family-hospital","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-residents","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mainland-china","tag-medical-tourism","tag-onyuma-maternity-centre","tag-pembrolizumab","tag-pertuzumab","tag-shenzhen","tag-society-for-community-organisation","tag-voluntary-health-insurance-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}