"Sit out your month properly and you won't have any problems the rest of your life." Even today, that old Chinese saying is still passed on faithfully from mother to daughter or from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law whenever a Chinese woman has had a baby.
「月子坐得好，一生沒煩惱」，這句歷史悠久的中國俗諺，直到今天，只要有中國人聚集之處，還在婆媳、母女間口耳相傳，不敢偏廢。