Overseas Chinese women of an earlier generation living in Chinatown could "sit out their month" more or less according to tradition, but the fate of Chinese women living overseas today is a matter of luck.
老一輩僑胞生活在唐人街或華人社區裡，還多少可以照傳統規矩來坐月子，但年輕女留學生的際遇就得看運氣了。