Tatler Vietnam’s March 2026 issue features The Joyful Nest – and opens an overdue conversation about what mothers in Vietnam are really living through after childbirth.

A Feature That Captures Something Bigger Than a Sanctuary

In its March 2026 issue, Tatler Vietnam published a long-form feature on The Joyful Nest, Vietnam’s first five-star postpartum sanctuary. The piece, photographed by Louis Wu, takes readers inside our sanctuary at Oakwood Residence Saigon – past the soft morning light of our suites, into our private kitchen, and into the deeper story of why a place like this needed to exist in Vietnam in the first place.

We are deeply grateful to Tatler Vietnam for the care with which they told this story. You can read the full feature here.

But the feature also gave voice to something we believe matters more than any single sanctuary: the urgent need to rethink postpartum care in Vietnam – including the conversation around maternal mental health, which has been silent for too long.

What the Tatler Feature Captures About The Joyful Nest

The Tatler piece describes The Joyful Nest as a sanctuary “modeled on some of the best private centers in South Korea, Japan, and China,” where every detail of the maternal journey is “thoughtfully designed and beautifully experienced.”

The feature takes readers through what a stay actually looks like. Mothers are chauffeured directly from the hospital to our sanctuary, where they are received into a private suite within Oakwood Residence Saigon. They are supported around the clock by two dedicated nannies working in seamless 24-hour shifts, alongside on-site nurses, midwives, and lactation consultants. Pediatrician visits happen twice a week. Obstetrician visits, once weekly. Five restaurant-quality meals a day are prepared by our private chefs – never repeating across a stay – blending refined Vietnamese flavours with the restorative principles of traditional Chinese medicine.

Beyond clinical and nutritional care, the feature highlights the parts of postpartum recovery that are often forgotten: herbal baths, massage therapy, yoga and meditation, afternoon tea sessions, workshops on newborn care, and memento-making classes that help new mothers form friendships with one another.

This is what a complete postpartum stay looks like. And it is the standard we believe every mother deserves.

The Story Beneath the Sanctuary: A Founder’s Postpartum Experience

The most affecting moment in the Tatler feature is when our founder, Kun Jiang, shares the experience that led her to build The Joyful Nest.

Kun had her first child in Singapore seven years ago, while running a biotech business. Her postpartum period was marked by childbirth injuries, breastfeeding difficulties, and – eventually – postpartum depression.

“I felt like the worst mother in the world,” she shared with Tatler. “What was really tough was I didn’t know it could be like that. I didn’t know anybody who had gone through it, or that I could be at risk.”

This is the silence that defines maternal mental health in much of Asia, and certainly in Vietnam. New mothers are told that having a baby is the happiest moment of their lives. When their lived experience does not match that picture, many assume something is wrong with them – rather than recognising that what they are feeling is common, treatable, and deserving of support.

Postpartum Depression: What Every New Mother in Vietnam Should Know

A 2024 study cited in the Tatler feature found that one in seven women experiences postpartum depression after childbirth – and that undiagnosed symptoms were observed among fifty per cent of mothers.

Read those numbers again. One in seven mothers, formally diagnosed. One in two, showing symptoms that go unrecognised.

In Vietnam, the conversation around postpartum mental health is only just beginning. Cultural expectations, family pressures, and the absence of trained postnatal support mean that many new mothers carry the emotional weight of the postpartum period alone. As Kun put it in the Tatler interview: “You have to learn to live with your new body, you have to negotiate your new identity as a mother and renegotiate your relationship with your partner. And you have to do all that while being woken up every three or four hours to feed a crying baby. It is such a vulnerable time.”

This is the conversation we hope to keep opening – not only inside The Joyful Nest, but across Vietnam.

What Real Postpartum Support Looks Like

Postpartum recovery is not only physical. It is psychological, emotional, and relational. A meaningful postpartum care experience should address all of these layers – not just the first one.

At The Joyful Nest, this means:

Continuous, around-the-clock care so a mother can sleep deeply enough to begin healing.
Skilled lactation support so breastfeeding does not become another source of distress.
Professional mental health awareness built into our care, including emotional wellbeing reviews as part of our medical program.
A community of other mothers – through workshops, afternoon teas, and shared spaces – so no mother walks the early weeks alone.
Nutrition designed for recovery and lactation, drawing on our partnership with FHI 360’s Alive & Thrive programme.
Time – fourteen to twenty-eight days of it – so recovery is not rushed.

These are not luxuries. They are the foundation of a healthy postpartum period. The luxury is simply that, in Vietnam, this kind of complete care has been out of reach until now.

Why a Tatler Feature Matters for Postpartum Care in Vietnam

A feature in Tatler Vietnam puts a conversation into rooms it would otherwise not enter. Postpartum care is not yet a mainstream topic in Vietnamese media. Maternal mental health, less so. When a publication of Tatler’s standing chooses to tell this story, it shifts what is considered worth talking about.

That is why we are so grateful for this feature. Not because it celebrates The Joyful Nest, but because it normalises the idea that mothers in Vietnam deserve more – and that the conversation about how to give it to them belongs in the cultural mainstream.

A Note for Mothers Reading This

If you are pregnant, recently gave birth, or are caring for someone who is – and any of what you have read in this piece feels familiar, please know two things. First, what you are feeling is more common than the silence around it suggests. Second, support is available, and reaching out is a strength, not a weakness.

The most important first step is to speak with someone qualified. If you are in Vietnam, your OB/GYN, midwife, or family doctor is a good starting point. They can refer you to a mental health professional with experience in perinatal care. If you are a guest at The Joyful Nest, our clinical team can help you initiate that conversation in confidence.

If you are in immediate distress or having thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, please contact your nearest hospital emergency department or call your local emergency services without delay.

You are not alone. And you do not have to wait until things get worse to ask for help.

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