Please AVOID nanny CHUA KAM THAI

[ray2341]

Hi there, just sharing my very bad experience with this confinement nanny named Chua Kam Thai (also go by the name Aunty Grace) who was supposed to be with us for 4 months. She was here with us for 3 months and started showing her true colors later on. Before she came over, kept bragging about her experiences and how well she knows how to take care of baby. However when she joined, she started to increase my infant's formula milk feed from ~40-50ml all the way to 100ml within 1 week. That started causing the baby to suffer from reflux even until now. We even sought help from multiple different pediatricians who all mentioned there was overfeeding of the baby and we needed to cut down the volume. After that we tried to communicate the feeding volume and frequency with her but despite all these she still kept feeding the baby small volumes ~30ml between supposed feeding time cause she said she couldn't manage the baby. So on month 2 we told her to drop the cooking and just focus on taking care of the baby. We then started to realize a whole slew of bad habits she had - constantly closing the baby room door to 'put the baby to sleep', using phone while carrying the baby, sleeping with the earphones on where sometimes she doesn't even realize the baby has cried and kept being skeptical of the baby monitor saying she's being monitored despite us having the output shown on a public screen in the living room. She even complained about the aircon temperature saying she's not used to the temperature even though it's our baby who needs the cooling temperature. Afterwards we were arranging for a maid to settle in and told her some of the house rules to follow and guess what... few days later after receiving her salary she just disappeared saying she needs to buy something and left for 2 hours. When we contacted her, she suddenly claim that we haven't been treating her well and wanted to quit. This is despite us always remember to buying food/drinks for her, getting my parents to help during daytime so she can do other necessary chores and even kept letting her go out for her personal matters (draw money, meet friend for meal, complete PR application). At the point of leaving, she still cursed my parents (mind you they were already 60s and 70s who can be considered her senior) and was extremely rude.

In addition, she's got a very bad case of paranoia where she claimed the motion sensors around the house are cameras to track her when in fact it is not true (there aren't any cameras other than the baby monitor installed). She also claimed that we hacked into her phones, downloaded her data and installed some form of tracking software which is completely nonsensical. She's also made up a number of false stories and went to the extent of making police reports.

What we do suspect is that as the baby has grown a lot in weight (6KG at 3 months), she's unable to manage anymore - keeps complaining about the baby waking up at night and that she can't carry the baby well while standing. Also as the baby was 3 months old, there was sleep regression kicking in which was likely affecting her sleep. However she went to the extent of creating a big hoo-haa to get to her means which is really unethical.

Be warned about this confinement nanny and I strongly discourage anyone to engage her! Engage her at your own risk!

 

[Zoey Tan]

Yes, we really regret hiring her as well. Very unfortunate that we did not read this in advance, else we would not hire her.

I completely agree with you that Chua Kam Thai (Grace) overfed our baby too. She’s very very stubborn and we told her not to overfeed our baby and follow feeding guidelines, but no, she thinks she knows better than the doctor. Our baby had reflux too, and we only knew this later on..

She’s extremely stubborn and doesn’t want to follow the frequency and milk amount.

She kept saying that you monitored her while she showered and even made a police / MOM report about you. She’s close to crazy and makes things up. we suspect that she will do similar things to us as well.

She refused to do the permit before her job started. And even instigated our helper to go out with her for an entire day before we went back home. MOM, pls look into this nanny.

She’s extremely stubborn and does not listen. Always going to other members in the family to get her ways. So yes, she will do all the Hoo-ha to get her way to have easy life.

She always accuse her ex-employers of mistreating her like monitoring her, not giving her food to eat etc

Yes she is also very insistent about not turning on the AC, even though baby is warm.

Our relatives bought clothes for our baby. And she kept saying this type not suitable / that type not suitable. And so quite a lot of clothes was wasted.

Basically an extremely rigid and fussy person. She has to be the boss, and cannot follow employers / doctors instructions

Ex-employers of this nanny should be united and prevent this crazy person from going around Singapore households. Terrible person!

 

[Frostical]

The above reg flags on confinement nanny Chua Kam Thai (Aunty Grace) are all true. On the point that she refused to do the permit before her job started, this is another red flag that employers need to take note. She is approaching the maximum legal age for a confinement nanny to be employed under a Work Permit in Singapore, but she claimed that she needs to continue working even after the maximum age limit. This could be the reason why she refused to do the permit. This is a MAJOR RED FLAG, because it is illegal to work in Singapore as a confinement nanny if she exceeds the maximum age limit, and if caught, this will pose legal issues for both the employer and employee.

Confinement nanny Aunty Grace Chua Kam Thai has extremely bad work ethics. Please avoid confinement nanny Chua Kam Thai (Aunty Grace) at all costs!