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Postnatal care at home · Singapore
Confinement care sold by the day: what each day contains, who comes into the home and with what training, what the diet follows, and what is not in the price.
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Who the care is for
Confinement care is not one product. What a family needs in the first week depends on the birth, the baby, and who else is in the house. Here is who we plan for, and what we say about the rest.
The care on offer
Every entry states its unit — a day, a night, a delivery — and what is included in it, so the day count in a package can be checked against the care actually given.
Before any booking: the days that fit your dates, the tier of carer, the exclusions and the deposit, in writing. You leave knowing what a 14-day and a 28-day package would each contain for your household.
Book a first consultation ↗Days and nightsThe carer lives in for the booked days: the baby at night so you can sleep between feeds, one main meal and the day's tonics, the herbal bath, the baby's laundry and bottle care, and a written note of feeds and nappies each day.
Ask about a stay-in carer ↗8 to 10 hours a dayThe same care between morning and evening, with the carer going home at the end of the shift. Suits families who want the day covered and the nights kept to themselves.
Ask about a daytime carer ↗Days and nightsOne carer whose focus is two babies: a feeding and settling routine that keeps both on a schedule, the extra laundry, and a second pair of hands at the night feeds. Priced as its own package rather than as two.
Ask about twins care ↗7 to 28 daysOur own menu delivered to the door: the day's soups, a main meal and the red date drinks, with the stage of the confinement deciding what is cooked. For households that keep their own carer and want the kitchen covered.
Ask about meal delivery ↗60 minA massage session at home, booked in the package or on its own, on days that suit you. What it is for and what it is not for is stated in the diet and body-care note below.
Ask about massage ↗60 min at homeA practitioner reviews your history and everything you take before anything is prescribed, and will say plainly whether herbs are appropriate in your case. If a question is medical, it goes to your doctor instead.
Ask about a consultation ↗What the nanny does not do is also agreed in writing before the engagement: no cleaning of the whole flat, no cooking for the household beyond the mother’s meals, and no care of older children unless it is named in the engagement.
Who comes into your home
Our own rule: a profile names the training completed — the postnatal care course and the body that ran it, with the year — how many confinements she has attended, the languages she works in, and whether she works stay-in or daytime only. The certificate is shown at the consultation if you ask, and the same details go on the service agreement.
Training, the body that ran it and the year are printed on the agreement, per carer.Where the placement is arranged through us, the licence reference under which it is made is printed on the service agreement so you can check it against the issuing authority's own record before you sign. A carer you engage directly is a different arrangement with different responsibility, and we say so rather than leaving it to be discovered.
We print the reference; you check it. Both of us then know what we are relying on.The tier says what the carer is there for. Every carer on the bench holds the same core training; the fee difference is the hours she works, not a better certificate.
Six carers are on our bench, and each profile states her own experience rather than an average we invented. If your carer falls ill, a named replacement with the same tier covers the booked days. If the fit is wrong, say so in the first three days and she is replaced once at no fee. Every placement is reviewed by a supervisor at day three and at the end.
Capacity and the replacement rule are stated in the agreement, not only here.Fees
The unit of sale here is days, so the ladder below starts at seven and ends at forty, and the second table counts what the extra days actually buy. A day is a day of care: it is not a calendar date on which a carer is nominally on standby.
| Package | Days and hours | From |
|---|---|---|
| 7 days The short stay | Seven care days, stay-in or daytime, usually the first week while family take over afterwards | S$1,050 |
| 14 days 14 care days | Stay-in days and nights, or 8 to 10 daytime hours a day, with the first week on the heaviest schedule | S$1,900 |
| 28 days The usual confinement period | The staged four weeks described below, with the inclusions listed in the table | S$3,600 |
| 40 days The extended period | Usually after a caesarean or a longer hospital stay, with a slower handover to the mother | S$4,900 |
| Extra day, stay-in | Any day added to a running package, with the night included | S$130 |
| Extra day, daytime | Any daytime-only day added to a running package | S$95 |
| What each package contains | 14 days | 28 days | 40 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care days | 14 | 28 | 40 |
| Daytime hours, if daytime only | 8 to 10 a day | 8 to 10 a day | 8 to 10 a day |
| Confinement meals cooked | 14 days | 28 days | 40 days |
| Herbal bath sessions | 7 | 20 | 28 |
| Postnatal massage sessions | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| TCM consultation at home | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Baby's laundry and bottle care | Daily | Daily | Daily |
| Written daily note of feeds, nappies and rest | Daily | Daily | Daily |
| Prenatal visit before the birth | Included | Included | Included |
Funding and reimbursement. Some employers and some insurers reimburse postnatal care and some do not, and that is their rule rather than ours. What we can do is make the claim easy: an itemised invoice that separates the care days, the hours, the meals and the herbal bath, plus a copy of the service agreement, which is the form most schemes ask for. We do not claim on your behalf and we will not tell you what your scheme will pay — ask them before you book, so the paperwork is right the first time.
Deposit and instalments. A stated deposit holds your dates, and the balance is due on the first day of care. Both amounts and both dates are on the agreement, and nothing is charged before you sign it.
Three bookings, day by day
Each booking is written the way our agreements are written: the days, the hours, who is in the house, what the extra days are for, and what is on the invoice that is not in the package. The day rate for anything added later is on the same sheet.
28 care days / Stay-in, nights included / From S$3,600
Both parents working, no relative able to stay, twins feeding on a three-hour schedule.
28 stay-in days with the nights included, meals cooked in the house, 20 herbal baths, 6 massage sessions and 2 TCM consultations at home, with a second carer on standby for the nights the schedule slips. Days 1 to 7 are the heaviest: the carer takes the night feeds so the mother sleeps in blocks, and anything about the wound, the bleeding or the baby’s weight goes to the family’s doctor on the day it is noticed. Days 15 to 28 hand the daytime routine to the mother with the carer beside her. The agreement lists what is not included — groceries, the carer’s return travel, and any permit-related item that applies — as its own line with the amount.
14 care days / 8 to 10 hours a day / From S$1,900
A second confinement, a toddler in the flat, and a partner on leave for the first three weeks.
14 daytime days of 8 to 10 hours, meals for the day, 7 herbal baths, 3 massages and 1 consultation at home. The nights stay with the family, so the carer’s day is shaped around the rest hours the mother does have rather than around a night shift. The last three days are spent handing the daytime routine over rather than adding to it. Fourteen is the honest answer where a partner or a relative covers the nights; where nobody does, 28 is the package that covers the nights at all.
40 care days / Stay-in or daytime / From S$4,900
A caesarean, or a longer hospital stay than planned, with lifting limits that outlast the usual month.
40 care days, with the last week kept back for the handover rather than for more of the same. The mother runs the full day with the carer watching, and the carer steps back each day: the bath, the sterilising and the settling are taught rather than done. The closing consultation at home writes down what the routine is, what was used, and what to raise with a doctor. Extended days are booked at the extra-day rate on the agreement, agreed in writing before the day is worked.
Days, hours and exclusions are the three things a confinement package is argued about later. All three are settled for your household before the deposit, and written on the agreement you sign.
A free 30 minutes, with the days, the tier and the exclusions stated.
The carer is named before you sign, with her training and the days she works.
The booked days run to a written schedule, with a daily note of feeds and rest.
The last days move the routine to the mother, and the closing consultation says what is left.
How the days run
Twenty-eight days is not fourteen days twice. Each stage has a different job, and the last days are for handing the routine over. Pick the closest description to start the right conversation.
Tell us the birth date or the due date, who else is in the house, and whether you want the nights covered. That decides whether 14 or 28 days is the honest answer.
Book a first consultationSend the feeding plan or the discharge note with your enquiry. A twins booking needs a carer whose focus is two babies, and the plan has to be followed as written.
Ask about twins careTell us what your doctor has asked you to avoid, and for how long. The carer's work is arranged around those limits, and anything clinical stays with your doctor.
Ask about a stay-in carerThe rule that matters: every restriction we are asked to follow is written down at the consultation and repeated on the agreement, so the carer cooks to a list rather than to a habit.
Client perspective
“They put the number of days in writing, said which days included the night, and showed me the list of what was not included before I paid the deposit.”
28-day stay-in package, sample story
Sample story. Not a real customer review.Before you book
The carer looks after the mother's rest, the baby's routine, the meals, the herbal bath and the laundry. She does not diagnose, give medication, or decide whether the baby is feeding or gaining enough — that is your doctor's or a lactation consultant's call, and when a question is clinical we say so and refer you instead of guessing. A confinement carer is not a nurse: anything clinical is answered by your doctor, and we say so at the time rather than improvising an answer.
Fourteen days is enough when a partner or a relative can cover the nights. Twenty-eight is the usual answer when nobody can, and forty is for a caesarean or a harder recovery where the handover takes longer. The two worked plans above show what each covers. If you are unsure, book the shorter package and extend it: the extra-day rate is on the agreement, so you are not guessing at the price of a later decision.
The carer is named before you sign, with her training on the agreement. If she falls ill, a named replacement with the same tier covers the booked days; if the fit is wrong, tell us in the first three days and she is replaced once without a fee. If no replacement can be found, the unused days are refunded at the day rate.
No. It is our own menu rule set, written down, and it is the same list for every household. Where a restriction is clinical — an allergy, gestational diabetes, a condition your doctor is following — the list comes from your doctor or dietitian and we cook to theirs. We do not claim the food treats anything, and we do not promise a recovery time either way.
Two carers are kept off the diary for early discharges. Tell us the discharge date as soon as you know it and we hold the slot; if you are sent home sooner than expected, we tell you the same working day whether a carer can start the next morning. Extensions are booked by the day at the rate on the agreement, agreed in writing before the extra day is worked.
Home care runs inside our covered area, listed on the agreement by district; travel outside it is quoted per trip before the first visit. Meals and the herbal bath are delivered on a stated window each day. Ask about your district at the first consultation and it is confirmed in writing, rather than being discovered on the first morning.
Start with your dates
The due date or the birth date, who else is in the house, and whether you want the nights covered is enough to start. We reply with the days we have free and the deposit that holds them.
Concept only. Nothing is sent or booked.