There is not really a need to go through agency. You can find a cl urself. Usually through the word of mouth.
Agree with huimin. My CN who used to work with one of the agency here get paid $1500 for 28 days of service whereby her employer paid $2300 to the agency. (this is 5years' ago rate)
Charged extra for the visit pass (MOM) which in fact she does not requrie at all.
In the end she came out to do as a free lance thru words of mouth.
Actually, we cannot penalized all CNs from agencies are bad (it depends on luck also)
Beware of CL Aunty Annie from KL/Penang Age 62. +60125321623 (MY) 81320767 (SG)
I contacted her upon recommendation from my cousin's wife's friend.
She charged me $2.6K when she did my confinement in Nov'13. She still can say she's the cheapest. my previous CL was just $2.2K!
- She has a lot of old wives' method to heal this and that but srly i dont think it works on my bb! she will say put towel over bb's head when they hiccup cuz their head feel cold (?? anyone heard it before); put ginger and pandan leaves ard the house to absorb bacteria and germs, but my bb still fell sick to the point that we have to admit her cuz she's too young to fight the cough and flu! Then there's this plant (hokkien: sua liao hiok) that she is dying to get cuz she say can help in getting rid of wind, heal infant acne etc. end up like not much use as well.
- Given her high charges, i made it clear to her that she will do everything that concerns me and bb. end up everything throw to my maid! even cooking also got my maid to prepare for her! some days i dont even eat confinement meals cuz she will take a portion out from the family dishes. CL promised to cook this and that but end up nv even produce. pple say cant eat overnight stuff but i keep on eating them. she cooked mei cai kou rou,, which she kept for 3 days. i had it for every meal! dont even wanna eat after day 1. we had the bb shower before she left, she said that i can eat all the leftovers from the buffet. i ask her shouldnt i eat fresh food, she say dont waste food and all the mummies do that.
- She keep on carrying my bb and sit on my living room sofa and watch tv. i was so pissed that i even took a picture! and because of her, my bb had to be held all the time after confinement.
- Since she really has nothing to do, she knits like all day. which is also her part time business. hello! am i paying for u to knit for ur part time business?!
- She nv cook tonic soups for me so my mom question her, which i think is right since isnt confinement all about nourishing the body. She still dare to black face. end of confinement still dare to complain to my hubby.
- Confinement not supposed to oyster sauce but my CL did. cause me to have rashes all over my chest.
- She never clean my bb's tongue and when we tell her to do so, she say dont have to do it and she has nv done it before. end up i gotta do myself. dont she know that not cleaning their tongue will cause milk blisters!
- I dunno how she rubbed my bb's umbilical cord but it was having infection and bleeding when we went to pd for review. i ask her she can tell me it's normal.
- my poor bb was crying like mad whenever she pees and shit. i checked and she has v bad diaper rash! CL cant even tell that its diaper rash. seriously wtf.
- CL is supposed to help me at night but in my case i direct latch so i didnt mind. when bb shit i will bring to her and she cant even wake up. gotta shake her quite vigorously then wake up. My bb tend no shit all at one go so she can shit up to 3-4 times a night. CL will show black face after 2nd time.
- during the course of the month long confinement, it's impossible for me not to badmouth about my mil to my mom. at the end of confinement, she actually told my mil what i complain about. no ethnics at all!
- she originally has a job for jan2014. unfortunately the mommy went into pre-term labour. CL still can curse the mommy and scold her for not informing her. if i'm the mommy, i wouldnt have any time to inform the CL since my bb will be the priority and the mommy was early by almost 3 months so she definitely can inform the CL later.
Hi mummies..
I'm a mother of 1 and expecting another one in Sept
I'm personally from Indonesia. I'm a Chinese. My first confinement was by my mum.
However, I have a very experience and good CL from Indonesia to recommend. She always do confinement ard batam Singapore and Malaysia.
She's a friendly lady who is my neighbor in Indonesia. She's very good with baby and can cook Chinese confinement food. Her charges also reasonable.
And I hope to share this with all the mummies here If any of mummies here interested to get her, I can give you her contact for your own discussion.
Hi Holidaygal, can I hv Mdm Yap contact num? Thank youAfter my trauma with the first CL, I hired a replacement CL from Aunt Nanny Pte Ltd.
She's Mdm Yap from KL and is a huge help to me.
Here is my experience & review.
Personality:
Pleasant & easy going
Not talkative (very important bcos you need to rest)
Takes instructions but you need to highlight the importance (as she may forget sometimes)
Respect your privacy and doesnt ask too many questions.
Review about baby handling:
She is genuine & cares about babies. She loves babies & likes to interact/talk to them
Very experience in taking care of baby. ie bathing, changing, feeding
Review about cooking/household mgt:
Very knowledgable about confinement food.
Prepares tasty & yummy food (sorry i dont have any pic)
Keeps my kitchen very clean.
Diligent in helping out with chores whenever I ask her to (it's not part of her job though)
Enjoy your pregnancy, i realised it's very important to hire someone who you can get along cos she has to stay with you for 1 month!
cheers
can pm me contact? thanks
can pm me contact? thanks
Hi Mummies,
i've found my CL through this forum, and thought i'll send my review here too Her name is Auntie Siew Zhen, and she's been with me for 3 weeks Shes been a really really great help!!!!!!
I have also extended her as she's soo nice. She's been cooking very yummy food for me & family daily, and we super love her dishes! She's so helpful in family chores too, and my mom was so impressed.
She is really patient with my baby too, even though my baby takes 1 hr to drink each feed, she still patiently insist to make sure my baby finish her feed.
As a first time mummy, i'm really lost even with the equipments like pumps, steralize equipments and baby items. She was the one who taught me how to use them!
I have a dog at home too, and she love my dog so much, my dog sticks to her like magnet daily...
I'm so gona miss her!
She's booked till April next year..mummies who wish to book her later can call her at
92440112.
2500 to 2800. My confinement nanny charges $2500 for my second pregnancy at edd June 2014. She is available in October and December.Any mummies know the rates for CL?
2500 to 2800. My confinement nanny charges $2500 for my second pregnancy at edd June 2014. She is available in October and December.
She did for 28 days. She is clean, caring and good at taking care of mum and baby.Is this good for a month?
She did for 28 days. She is clean, caring and good at taking care of mum and baby.
When is your EDD?Good morning!
mich - thanks for your encouragement
char - Mine is at 7.40pm! hehehe ... ya, taking the medication but hor, this morning, vomit out my breakfast (which is just soya bean cos no appetite to eat anything) ... dun know whether the medicine also vomit out or not. Even till now, no appetite but stomach growling so made myself a cup of milo (can drink right?). cham, i think my MS getting worse.
Hiroshima - congrats and welcome!!!
When is your EDD?Oh, what if i want her for 3 months. Can she work 3 months straight without off?
Hi Shimmer57,
Sorry late reply, am v busy with newborn.
I do not recommened CL Yuhua, i sacked her a week after she started work. I will share my experience more later to alert other mummies. She is a nightmare with poor work ethics & bad personality. Kampung auntie i would describe.
I have a replacement CL , engaged her thro an agency at the last min. She's mdm yap from KL & she's awesome. Currently she is still working for me. Anyone interested to hire a good cl, pls pm me. I will try my best to reply asap as currently i'm busy bf-ing & bonding with my newborn
Congraz to all who's preggy!
She did for 28 days. She is clean, caring and good at taking care of mum and baby.
Hi happy 12,Hi, can I check how much she charges?
I've been reading about other mommies sharing their confinement experience and I felt compelled to do the same so that new mommies out there researching on confinement services would have a better sense of how some CLs are like.
I had this CL called Feng Jie from Segamat last year but she is definitely not worth recommending and i regretted giving her contact to my friend. In terms of confinement experience she's just ok, cooking is average, does basic sweeping, mopping on alternate days, handling of baby is ok except that at some nights when she really couldn't calm my baby to sleep, she would handover to me to settle. However there were many other instances that this CL went overboard.
Confinement duties - She's rather fast worker but she tried to take some short-cuts such as making 1 big pot of soup to be used in a few meals over 1 - 2 days (i.e you get overnight soup)
The main complain abt her is her work ethics.
1. Talk on phone frequently and my friend feedback that she yak on phone every night during her confinement. I find that her hp ringtone is super loud too.
2. During my confinement, she watched 2+ hrs TV during some morn/aftns cos there’s not much chores for her to do.
3. Deployed cunning sales tactics by providing ‘value-add’ services in order to peddle her own 'stuff'. She bought 2 packs of bee hoon from Malaysia as 'welcome gift', claiming that some families may forget to buy food supplies on first day of confinement. After that she peddled white rice wine at S$30 per bottle (bottled in a <800ml yoghurt bottle) to us before coming over. Told her my MIL would make glutinous rice wine for me but yet she ‘innocently’ claimed that my MIL had ordered 2 bottles of glutinous rice wine from her on the phone. MIL said that we had no choice but to buy from her since she had brought them.
4. used confinement time to do own stuff. she shopped for CNY clothes on first trip to market with MIL. Requested MIL to help her buy salmon and sea cucumber. Later requested husband to help her change currency. Also wanted to buy the hsehold items she saw in our house and wanted us to buy it for her. Once i allowed her to go out to shop, she spent 3 mornings on that. Even dropped hints that previous employers had given her some of the products or foodstuff which they had bought.
At my friend's confinement, she requested to be brought to Pearl Centre to buy clothes when my friend stay in Simei!
5. My friend said she asked for taxi fare for departure when she should already have her 'departure' ang bao. During my time, she was thick-skinned enough to request that the ‘Thank You (Departure) ang bao amt must be enough to buy a set of clothes and to pester my MIL to drive her to Woodlands train station on last day to save on her taxi fare.
Sigh, I understand that some mommies are lucky to find good CLs, although mine did her job but her funny requests really irritated me and my family and I could understand why she was sent back by two other families before her assignment's up.
Hihi i went to the parenting course... it is good baby sleep w mummy during confinement period but not same bed.. baby sleep at the baby cot same room cos it is important time for bonding w mummy..i understand mummy will be very tired but it is worthy of e effortHi all, this is my first child and I am 5 month pregnant now, can someone advise me if my baby should sleep in my room with me or sleep with the CL in another room during confinement period? Any different if I am planning to breast-feed? Thank you!
Hihi Jas Jas.. i m attending e parenting course by gfi http://gfi-singapore.org. My edd is 18 aug.. how abt urs?Hi joyfulmummy, thank you for you advice So, where did you attend the parenting course, mind to share? When is your EDD?