Cookbook author Hetty Lui McKinnon writes about becoming a mother—with a lot of advice from her own mother along the way.
In The Fourth Trimester, we ask parents: What meal nourished you after welcoming your baby? This month, it’s ginger fried rice from Tenderheart cookbook author Hetty Lui McKinnon. I have always been one of those daughters who thinks she knows best. So during my first pregnancy, when my mother told me about all the Chinese rules of postpartum care, I scoffed and laughed her off.
My stomach felt empty, every growling pang a sign that my body was mourning the loss of carrying another human, and longed to be filled again. The midwives offered me cold buttered toast and milky black tea. I devoured these without thinking. After transitioning from the delivery room to my hospital bed, it was lunchtime and a bowl of watery vegetable soup appeared before me.
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