Maternity nurses seek to deliver high-cost services

Postpartum care providers are in demand amid expectations of a baby boom, but some pregnant women are not very pleased

China's amendment to its 1978 single-child family policy, allowing couples to have two children now, is expected to not only counter a shrinking workforce and an aging population but heat up the "confinement nursing" market.

Signs of a potential rise in demand for yuesao, or a postpartum care worker, are already there in China's mega cities amid expectations of a baby boom from late 2016 onwards.