Confinement Lady is the person who cares for your baby and you after the delivery. You are supposed to be confined in the house for a period of 30-40 days so your body can recover properly. The confinement is to prevent 'wind' to get into your body so you would not suffered body ache and headache later.
The confinement lady job scope includes :-
- cooking . Most the diet will be of ginger, rice wine and traditional Chinese herbs.
- Prepare bath water for yourself and baby. Some opted for traditional boiled herbs, some opted those easy herbal shampoo. But usually there is a restriction of time when you can wash your hair. Some of them will disallowed you to wash your hair up to a period of 1 month.
- care for your baby e,g wash, clean, sleep and feed the baby. If you are first time mum, she will also teach how to care for your baby. If you allow them, they usually will sleep with the baby during the night, so you could have a good rest.
- some minor house chores e.g cleaning, ironing and etc.
The charges are ranging from RM2800 to RM3500 inclusive of ang pow.
I have compiled a list of confinement ladies abstracted from forums and blogspots:-
- Kui Sia - 012-419 1528 (from Ipoh- willing to travel)
- Wan Jie - 012-388 6847
- Hua Jie - 012-367 8436
- Sally -016-375 3288 (from penang)
- Aunty Chin - 019-758 0034 (from Segamat-often travel to Singapore)
- Aunty Chia - 012-529 7236
- Ah Lin - 016-691 0517
- Ah Geok - 016-503 6387
- Man Jie - 012-217 2605
- Mui Cheh - 016-394 5709
- Siew Ling - 017-249 6998
- Har Jie - 012-931 8072
- Foong Jie - 012-438 0925
- Yook Jie - 012-687 2988
- Kam Jie - 016-340 8133
- Yoong Jie - 016-340 8133
- Yoong Jie - 016-624 0522/012-972 6072
- Ah Fong Jie - 016-220 0955
- Lan Jie - 03-4149 5217
- Wu Shen - 012-661 3114
- Ah Tai Che - 016-950 1123
- Aunty Ah Kiaw - 04-442 4489 (Sg. Petani)
- Coco - 016-287 1130
- Moi Cheh - 016-394 5709
- Agnes Cheang - 017-811 0072
- Wan Cheh - 016-397 5849
- Auntie Yin - 019-309 3218
- Madam Lee - 65-9853 1484 (Singapore)
- Esther - 012-692 5511
- Ah Ngor - 012-571 9040
- Pearl Ong - 017-613 5192
- Kam Cheh - 017-365 5301 (Trengganu)
- Catherine - 012-662 2795
Ladies with bad comments:-
- Jennifer - 012-2905 0170
- Eng Cheh - 016-5468 7777
I hope the list above would able to assist you in selecting a suitable confinement lady. There is also other option for you i.e confinement centre like:-
- Pei Ling, SS2 - 03-7877 8000
- SHL Care, Kepong - 03-6251 6133
- SN-Nanny, Sri Petaling - 03-9058 3693
- Feng Chai, Puchong-012263 5071
If you have any experience of a good confinement, you are welcome to comment and add-on the contact to the list above.
try www.confinementhelper.com
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ReplyDeleteHi,
I hired Aunty Susan for just 2 weeks because very unfortunately she fell down in the kitchen and got her hand injured and force to stop working.
Overall, she is quite good – clean and neat. Indeed, I though I had hired a chef. She cooks well and she loves cooking Those cooking ingredients that she used really good to get rid of wind and slimming. We loves her cooking. She cooked for my hubby and 3 yrs old daughter too. Can you imagine we didn’t have repeat dishes (beside vege) for 2 weeks.
Aunty Susan takes good care of me and she support breastfeeding. However, there are 2 things we not quite like about her:
1st – we feel that she doesn’t really like taking care of bb, though she did a fantastic job of taking care of me. The 1st thing she stated when she came was since I breastfeed, bb will sleep with mummy and not her. Isn’t cl job is help us taking care bb so that we can rest and recover faster?
I could still remember for continuous nites after me and bb discharged, bb basically was crying hard at night (9pm – midnight). Reason – bowel movement. We were busy changing and cleaning the bb. The next day, she said she heard bb crying very loud last night and ask why. We really unhappy because why didn’t she come over to ask whether we need help or see why bb kept crying and offer her hand if she heard it in next door?
2nd – she likes to twist and turn during the conversation and indirectly telling you something – we hate that. Why can’t she talk straight to the point? A lot of times I need to guess what was she trying to tell me or ask for.
However, overall Aunty Susan is nice person, easy going, clean and neat. I will still recommend to you if you doesn’t really need a cl fully taking care of bb as she cooks well and did a really good job of taking care the mummy. She is charging RM3,600, only want to work in m’sia. Ang Pow amount is up to you and she is from Ipoh.
I considered myself very lucky. Right after Aunty Susan left, I browsed through the internet and I got myself another confinement lady – Sim Yee (Seremban). She was free at that time because the bb whom she suppose to work with was in ICU and have to cancel her job.
Sim Yee (019-252 1118) is total opposite of Aunty Susan, haha… She is like the bb grandma. The 1st thing she asked for was bb had to sleep with her at night so that I can rest well. If not why do I need to hire her.
Sim Yee did good job in taking care of the bb. She had no complaints about bb even bb woke up several times for milk or poo. She will only tell you unless you ask her.
However, Sim Yee’s cooking is so so only. She cooks confinement dishes in very traditional way and not much variety. Her “boh bun” all with wine because according to her, wine is best helping the mummy for blood circulation.
Wine in bfast meal, then followed by chicken essence with dome – I was drunk in the morning.
Lunch & dinner were just normal confinement food with wine and ginger.
“Boh Bun” woohoo… with strong wine again. luckily I like drinking, if not really gone case. She will test your wine lever by increasing the amount of wine day by day.
Overall, I consider myself very lucky because both cl are good in their way.
I still keep in touch with both Aunty Susan and Sim Yee, they both are very friendly and nice lady.
If you want good chef and you prefer to take care the bb by yourself most of the time – Aunty Susan – 012-491 8560
If you want good granny taking good care of your bb, and you are not picky about food – Sim Yee – 019-252 1118
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ReplyDeleteI just completed my 28 days confinement days recently.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately, I got the worst confinement lady from FC Confinement Centre, Puchong. Her name is 'Ming Jie' 012-6058682.
The center charged me RM3800.00 (RM1000.00 go to the center or so called 'agent', and balance RM2800.00 is to the confinement lady)
This lady really a night mare to me and now I am suffered body ache and headache as 'wind' to get into my body.
This 'Ming Jie' not only lazy, dirty also with bad attitude.
1) she used oyster sauce and salt cook the food for me - after delivered BB, we are not suppose to take any sea food or salt. Even, I warned her before, but she still ignored me when I am not aware.
2) when my BB crying, she just feed him milk and never check if my BB is thirsty or the drypers needed to be change. This end up my son tummy full of 'wind' and suffered from pain.
3) When my parent in-law come and visit me, she asked them help her to buy 4D...
There are many many more bad things to share about this confinement lady....
Please be aware of this lady....and share this to your friend...
Hi, I am so sorry about your bad experience. How are you feeling now and how is baby doing? Thank you for sharing this.
DeleteI need a baby sitter at Sri Petaling, any recommend?
ReplyDeleteHi, yes I know of somebody and quite a good one nearby your area. Please email me so I can provide you the contact. My email address : acbm123@gmail.com
ReplyDeletehi
ReplyDeleteam going to deliver my first baby in mid Jan 2014 .. desperately looking for CL , am staying in puchong. any recommendations ?
Hi Sherene
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can go through the above list and find someone who is available and suit your budget and requirement?
hi...from the list anyone can recommend which is good in cooking and clean?
ReplyDeletehi
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I had used the service from Confinement Care Malaysia (www.confinementcaremalaysia.com) and we strongly recommend first time mommy to try them. CCM will provide basic guidelines for confinement preparation and purchase list for first time mommy. Their service was very prompt and helpful. Below was our experiences with CCM:
As my wife delivered the baby two weeks ahead of schedule, the pre-booked confinement lady was not able to make it to take care of my wife & baby. During that time, I was panic and lost in direction. Without delay, I have to look for a new CL via internet website. Thanks god I found CCM and I had made contact with the person in charged, and I had informed her our problems and difficulties. What a surprise, she contacted me in less than half an hour and informed me that she was able to get a CL for us and the CL is available in 2 days time, just in time for my new-born baby! Without hesitate, I confirmed and accepted her offer.
About the assigned CL (Ah Peng), our comments are as follow:
Provide immediate guidance on the first day. e.g. stuff and food to be prepared.
She always ensures cleanliness of herself before handling my wife and the baby. She is very stringent on hygiene.
She never allows my wife to get hungry. She always prepares 5 to 6 meals a day for my wife.
She cleaned the house and kitchen daily.
As my baby always crying and hungry at midnight, she never sleeps at midnight to take care of the baby. This is to ensure my wife does not get disturb and to ensure my wife get enough rest after delivery.
She takes care of the baby with patient in every single details i.e. feeding, cleanliness, hygiene etc.
Hello! We're Yuan Yuan Confinement Retreat Centre and we're located at Damai Perdana , Cheras. We offer the confinement package at the lowest cost of RM6888! All included....
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Hi, my wife and i have engaged Siew Ling Jie for our 2nd baby and tomorrow she will be leaving us. Honest speaking, I don't think I can find any other CL is as good as Siew Ling Jie. During the 28 days of confinement, she took very good care of my wife and my new born child. On top of that, she also take care of my elder daughter, helping her to shower, feed her lunch and entertain her. She even do all the house chores work like washing clothes, mopping the entire house, cooking, and etc etc. If anyone want to look for a trustworthy, hardworking, responsible, and many many more positive points confinement nanny, please dont wait to contact her.
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