Our decision on Confinement Lady

Our babies had reached their 29th week milestone today and its only 1 week ago that we decided on a Confinement Lady. All along, MIL insisted that she is able to care for the babies and wanted us to trust her. I can see that she is very kind and wanted to help us save the $$$. I know that she keep converting the $4k into Ringgit and that 10kRinggit looks like a huge amount.

I posted a question in twins Babies SG facebook page on whether or not to engage a confinement lady and I received many comments where fellow parents of twins shared their experiences. Some feedback that they managed without Confinement Lady and some couldn't. I had decided that its better to engage so that Felin is able to have better rest during the month especially if she is going to have C-section. We can also take it as a one month course where we can learn from the confinement lady about caring for babies. Its probably also better to avoid letting Mum and MIL to interact too much during the more stressful confinement month. We had hence request MIL to come over to support us during the 2nd month after the Confinement Lady left.

The only thing we hope is that the confinement lady is good. She was recommended by my mum's friend but when I asked my mum to share what her friend told her, she have no idea at all why her friend said that she was good. We then interviewed the confinement lady over the phone twice and get to know that she was a ex-nurse in Medan (Indonesia), taking care of babies in hospital for 20 years. She is a Chinese and had been a confinement lady for the past 11-12 years and claimed to have twins experience too. She agreed to $3,400 which include her air-ticket from Medan. Just pray that she is really able to help by then...

Below are some extract of those who advised us to engage CL...