After three months of service ended, I truly want to recommend our postpartum nanny, Auntie Chen Yu.
I’m very grateful for how Yu-jie took care of our whole family over these three months. With her help, my postpartum recovery went extremely well: while sticking to exclusive breastfeeding, I was already able to go fly kites in the park in the second week after giving birth, returned to the gym to lift weights after one month, started taking three tennis lessons a week after two months, and now my figure has recovered to the point where I can wear my pre-pregnancy clothes again.
Under Auntie’s care, the baby also developed a very regular routine. At one month, the baby was already able to sleep a full 6-hour stretch at night. At two months, after feeding at 9 p.m., the baby could sleep all the way until 5:30 a.m. The baby’s height and weight have consistently stayed above the 90th percentile. Now at two and a half months, the baby can already roll over more than ten times in a row.
I started looking for a postpartum nanny when I was 6 weeks pregnant. At the time, some negative news about postpartum nannies in the Bay Area had just come out, so my husband and I were both very cautious. On top of that, when our older child was just born, he had gone to the ICU and was hospitalized for a week because of choking on milk, so we were especially anxious about caring for our second baby and hoped to find a nanny who was truly professional and knew how to prevent and handle problems. During the interview, Yu-jie shared in great detail her experience with handling and preventing milk choking, and she immediately gave me the contact information of two former employers so I could directly hear real feedback. That made us feel very reassured.
After learning that I wanted to exclusively breastfeed, Yu-jie was also very supportive. In fact, when a mom exclusively breastfeeds, the postpartum nanny has to work much harder than with formula feeding, but after she started working in our home, she insisted on helping me with breast massage every day to stimulate milk production, and every two hours during direct breastfeeding she also kept helping massage and relieve blockages. After she learned that I love eating meat, she kept making different beef dishes for us: grilled beef, pan-fried beef, qiaojiao beef, beef patties, roujiamo, and so on. With good rest and enough protein, by two weeks postpartum my milk supply was already very abundant—the baby drank half, and I could freeze the other half.
Yu-jie herself is especially positive, easy to get along with, and very supportive of moms having their own careers. During these three months in our home, she kept the house very clean, and the kitchen and baby’s room were always neat and organized. When the baby was sleeping, she never sat idle and would proactively clean, do laundry, and organize things. When I had urgent work matters to handle, she also made me feel completely at ease so I could focus on work.
My husband and I have already recommended Auntie Chen Yu to many friends offline. We believe there are definitely more good postpartum nannies than unreliable ones, but someone like Yu-jie—professional, hardworking, dependable, positive, and truly caring about both mom and baby—is really rare. I sincerely recommend her to moms who need help.