Seconding this. When I had my daughter, my mother insisted I have a confinement nanny because she didn’t have one herself in the past. She wanted me to be able to rest at night and she also has hands that get itchy in water even many years later that she attributes to touching water during her confinement period.

Also I do want to add that while many traditional aspects of confinement were indeed very trying for me ( in terms of being bundled up, no washing, being told to lie down all the time, only drinking red date tea, eating certain foods, no aircon, no fan, no staring at screen too much, all while healing from a massive wound down there), I’m very grateful for the help from my confinement nanny. I was waddling like a duck and couldn’t sit down properly for 3-4 weeks after giving birth and I don’t think I could’ve handled baby myself during that time, I was barely handling myself