Many young Chinese women giving birth overseas beg their mothers to come over and help them during confinement. The sheng-hua soup (helps contraction of the uterus), sesame oil, rice wine and other necessary tonic ingredients usually have to be shipped in by "care package" from Taiwan, although they're available in some larger Chinatowns.
許多女留學生在產前就千叮萬囑地請媽媽飄洋過海去幫她坐月子，月子中需要的生化湯（可促進子宮收縮）、麻油、米酒及四物等補品，當然也一概仰賴「台援」。而在一些中國人聚居較多的海外中國城，根本就可以買到這些坐月子的補品。