Benefits of Having a Confinement Lady

Parents who have hired our professional confinement nanny services will likely have nothing but positive things to say about them and no regrets. After all, we’ve served well over 25,000 satisfied mummies in more than the 30 years that we have been helping mothers recover in their confinement.

Having a confinement lady around can give you a number of benefits. Right off the bat, imagine the situation. You’re bringing back your newborn and, in some cases, you just gave birth literally a day or two ago. This raises the question – how much rest and what quality of recuperation are you actually going to get having to juggle between taking care of your newborn IN

ADDITION to yourself?

Yeah, sure, you can have your family and dear hubby there (after all, that baby isn’t just yours alone), but what happens when everyone is busy? Hint, that’s where a confinement lady comes in!

So, without further ado, let’s get a move on with the benefits of having a confinement lady:

Benefits of a having a confinement lady

WHY DO YOU NEED THEM

Let’s get back to basics with this article and ask ourselves why do we actually need a confinement lady?

We all know just how demanding those tiny bundles of joy can be. They were the first to use quick-charge technology, sleeping for an hour or two and then keeping us up the rest of the night.

Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but newborns can have sporadic/unpredictable sleeping patterns, which may make obtaining a decent night’s sleep even more difficult.

That is why you require assistance with the infant. If you are a first-time mother, this may be an overwhelming experience that leads to stress, and that stress is not beneficial to healing at all. In fact, it may make you more prone to postpartum depression.

Confinement ladies help to take care of the baby

One of the main jobs of a confinement lady is to help you take care of that newborn while you recover. As we have mentioned, some mothers are new to this whole mothering thing and would not know how to properly take care of the baby.

Now, this isn’t some slight at new mothers. What we mean by this is – let’s just take crying, for instance. No, we don’t mean the mother crying, but the baby (which, if left crying for long enough, will inevitably also lead to the mother crying, funnily enough). Here’s a question – how many new or first time mothers can properly identify their baby’s crying cues and rightly ascertain if the little one is hungry or running a fever (bear in mind that when they are newborns, their immune systems aren’t fully developed yet…so hunger can be just as equally likely a prospect as them being sick)?

Confinement ladies help to take care of the mother too

Confinement ladies are not just there to look after the baby, they are also there to take care of the mother as well. As a mother, you will need time to heal and a good confinement lady can even help you get ready for motherhood, provided you have asked her to show you how to properly change your baby, how to feed them (yes, our PEM confinement nannies can provide breastfeeding guidance), and so on.

While our confinement nanny will stay with you to take care of your little one to give you the breathing room you require to properly heal up, remember that they are also a walking resource of parenting tips which, if you can capitalize on, they won’t just help you during your confinement, but the lessons you learn from them can be carried with you throughout your lifetime…and perhaps, someday, you might even pass those lessons on to others yourself.

Confinement ladies can give mothers emotional support

This brings us back to what we mentioned earlier about not knowing what to do. Let’s be real here – taking care of and being responsible for another life is just scary even at the best of times. Now, imagine doing so when you’re absolutely not sure if what you are doing is right. That’s just way scarier now.

A confinement lady would know how to take care of newborn children. That’s more or less the most basic thing in their job description and also the bulk of what we train our nannies to do.
While you can relax quite a bit to recover, you’d still have to learn how to take care of your child, but with our nannies guiding you, there will be emotional support and guidance which you can take full advantage of in preparing you for the transition after your confinement.

Confinement ladies can help a bit around the house

Another bonus benefit of hiring a confinement lady is that you will save money on the cost of caring for other family members in addition to yourself.
We have discussed confinement caterers previously in our other blog articles. These services are normally reserved solely for the mummies. What about the daddy? What about the other children if you have them? That is an additional fee to consider.

While the cost may vary from agency to agency and even from freelancer to freelancer (for groceries, transportation, add-on packages, and so on), it will still be less expensive than employing another set of hands solely to make meals for your family, should you discuss it with your confinement nanny beforehand if they’d be willing to prepare meals for the whole family instead of just for you.

Again, we’d like to stress that this isn’t a definite thing because you have to discuss it with the nanny first and then provide the ingredients for her to then cook for you as well as your family.

Closing words

Confinement Nanny Teaching a Mummy - PEM Confinement

So, mummies that’s all we have to bring to you today and we hope that has helped you understand how having one of our PEM confinement ladies can help ease your burden and make your transition into motherhood much less daunting!

Should you be interested in hiring one for yourself or perhaps you know someone who will benefit from having a confinement lady of their own to help out in their homes, feel free to drop us a call today, or swing by our website to leave us an enquiry and book one of our super nannies!

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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.