Farewell Emails To Colleagues 5. I now place much of the blame for my postpartum lows on the confinement I experienced during those early weeks after birth for the thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of zuo yue zi (坐月子), which literally translates into “sitting the. Devoted wife of the late Dod Reid MBE, beloved mam of George and Eleanor, a dear mother -in-law to Zoe and Dave and a very special granny to Joe, Natalie, Matthew and Jessica,.