5 Questions to Ask Your Future Confinement Nanny

When finding a person who will spend as much time as you would with your newborn, you can never be too cautious. Your postnatal care along with your baby’s safety and development should be prioritised more than everything else. Still, spending hours per day on researching for the best helping hand you could have after delivery and interviewing them can take a lot of your time and effort. 

To ease the whole process for you, we have compiled five crucial questions that you should include in your interviews with your potential confinement nannies. Keep in mind that these questions are the additional questions to your main ones. If it matters to you, you should still try to figure out their qualifications and experience of being a confinement nanny. The questions below are also open-ended, meaning there is no right or wrong answer. They are only meant to help you get to know the confinement nanny better and thus make your decision-making clearer and easier. Without further ado, let’s get right to the questions!

Question 1: What does being a confinement nanny mean to you?

     This type of question would give you an insight into how her work will go in your house. It would be best if her answer revolves around your or their previous client’s postpartum recovery and the infant’s growth and wellbeing. Would it be a bad thing if her answer is something along the line of ‘being a confinement nanny is only about preparing daily confinement foods’? Not necessarily. If your aim is to find someone who can emotionally support you and care lovingly for your baby, you may want to avoid hiring someone who gives such an answer. Again, it is up to what you are looking for and there are no wrong answers. If all you need is a good and proper confinement meals chef, that may be exactly the kind of answer that you want to hear.

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Question 2: Do you have any philosophies, principles, or beliefs in regards to becoming a mother or primary caretaker?

     From this question, you can gain an insight into how your confinement lady would help shape you as a mother. She may describe how the lifestyle of a mother should be once there is a baby in the house. If you do not agree with what she holds on to, this does not mean that you can immediately scratch her off your list. Instead, ask further to find out whether you two can compromise and find a middle ground in the aspects that concern you.

Question 3: Have you ever disagreed with any family’s parenting style and if you have, how did you deal with it?

     This one is closely related to the previous one, but should not be left out from your set of questions. If she has worked for several different families, it is totally expected for her answer being that she has, in fact, dealt with such experience. Know that this answer is completely acceptable because what matters is how she decided to deal with it. Again, if you do not agree with how she chose to deal with certain circumstances, try to talk it out first. Since she has experience using different approaches at work, she most probably already knows the suitable ways on how to deal with your family that would work for everyone. Therefore, exchange views on as many things as possible (so you’d know what to expect) but do not let disagreements get in the way of you getting a great service!

Question 4: What was your favourite memory with your previous families?

     Apart from being an excellent ice breaker, this question also humanises your future confinement nanny. Her answer will give you a glimpse into how she is as a person and how she is as a nanny. This makes a good question as the right answer will give you a good feeling. This way, you can have more time to rest and recover during confinement while keeping your worries at bay since your newborn will be left with her most of the time.

Question 5: What would you do if _____________?

     Create a scenario for your future nanny. For example, if your newborn keeps refusing to drink milk or go to bed, what would she do? This is an incredibly fitting question to ask since such scenario is very common and can happen at any time with a baby. You can easily judge how knowledgeable and skilled she is based on her answer.

There are many questions and answers that can help you get to know your future confinement lady beyond what’s stated on her certificates. The definition of the best mom confinement nanny Singapore parents like yourself look for may differ for one another, so you should try to understand what you want first. Once you have the chance to sit down and have a talk with a confinement nanny, remember to take out this list and ask away!

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  • PEM Confinement Nanny Agency

    We are a group of frontliners and support team members who are passionate about sharing our knowledge and experience in confinement care. Representing the largest confinement nanny agency in Singapore which has served over 250,000 mothers in over 30 years, we are all about sharing useful and insightful information based on our experience to help new parents navigate this exciting chapter of their life better.