Pros and Cons of Confinement Centres and Confinement Ladies
After a period of pregnancy, I trust that every mom hopes to understand the condition of their baby through a check-up. Therefore, in order to ensure that the check-up progress is consistently and successfully implemented, I believe that confinement ladies are able to make the mothers to undergo the process comfortably.
In today's time, there are also lots of confinement centers providing services for mothers who just go into labor and are in their confinement period. These confinement centres are very popular today and offer mothers with lots of services.
So, mothers, are you in a confusion whether to choose confinement lady or confinement center in order to get yourself enough rest? Are you worry that confinement ladies may not provide good quality services and may cause troubles? Or are you worry that the confinement centres are not as good as what people said?
Hence, I am writing an article discussing the pros and cons of confinement centers as well as confinement ladies to give you ideas about them.
Confinement ladies
‘Confinement’ is a process that is usually experienced by east countries’ pregnant ladies. It is a process of 28 to 30 days after giving birth. Getting confinement services within these days allow mothers to recover and strengthen their bodies. Of course, if mothers give birth through C-section, they may choose a longer confinement period.
Confinement is a consuetude of staying at home for recovery, getting enough rest and sleep to avoid the new mothers from being exhausted. Within this period, mothers and babies must not step out of house due to traditional contraindications saying that mothers are not allowed to catch cold wind and to avoid rheumatism.
During confinement period, the house chores are usually done by the mother or mother-in-law. If mother or mother-in-law is unable to help, you may consider about hiring a confinement lady. Hiring a confinement lady will at least cost you RM3500, this does not include angpao, cooking ingredients and some tips. The paid angpao is normally range from RM200 to RM500, and the tips is around RM100 to RM300 while the cooking ingredients will cost you at least RM2000.
If you want to hire a confinement lady, you have to make an early preparation as confinement ladies with good reputation are usually hired by neighborhood countries, some may need to make an appointment half a year earlier. To make sure you can take good rest during confinement period, you must interview the confinement ladies to discuss your lifestyle so that the confinement ladies can match their daily routine with your requirement.
Traditional confinement ladies will follow the contraindications that are passed to them from the older generation long time ago, therefore it may lead to unwanted misunderstanding issue. To avoid this from happening, you may ask your relatives or friends to introduce you to good confinement ladies.
The purpose of hiring a confinement lady is to ensure that your whole confinement period is comfortable, peaceful and enjoyable. You would want to have a comfortable rest without having to worry much about the quality of the services provided by confinement ladies. If you did not communicate well with confinement lady, you must be keep monitoring her, it cause new mothers more tiring on that.
Besides house chores and mother care, you have to discuss the confinement menu with confinement lady. This is because the superstition from past generation may not be effective but it will still quite strict for the mothers who staying with the grandparents, they might have another way to take care of the new mothers. Thus every communication and discussion is important step.
If you chose to get confinement service at home, the fathers have heavy responsibility. They need to accept the mothers who always have unstable mood. Fathers have to pay high attention to take care of the babies. The babies need to take extra care at early stage. If the fathers have to help in take care of the baby after work, it makes them extremely tired. Therefore, hiring a cleaner can reduce the workload. You can get some cleaner lists from here.
Confinement center
Recently, the confinement centers are getting popular at Taiwan. Slowly, Malaysia also start to have confinement centers, it makes pregnant women have one more option.
Confinement centers normally provide internal facilities, which included pleasant environments, professional nutritionist that provide healthy confinement meals, assist pregnant women to recover as soon as possible, provide breast feeding information and professional nursing care for babies.
Confinement centers is very welcomed at city center because those white collars feel that it could reduce the burden of mothers and mother-in-law. Another reason is, the confinement centers have gone through professional trainings and having professional knowledge regarding to confinement.
As cost of housing getting higher, some pregnant women prefer choosing confinement centers that have large area for them to have more movement space. This is because mothers’ blood will be in a hypercoagulable state after give birth, if keep lying on bed for long hours, it will lead to pulmonary. Besides that, confinement centers have many mothers as customers who can share their thoughts and stories within each other, it can calm new mothers and avoid sullen.
Society nowadays is having busy lifestyles. Small size family for pregnant women is hard for them to find people for confinement purpose. If mother or mother-in-law is around, it is good otherwise it is troublesome. The existence of confinement centers act as a good helper to avoid worries for pregnant women.
However, the professional confinement center is quite expensive, 28 days service cost at least RM9000 or even more.
The small size confinement centers usually only accept 4 to 8 mothers as customers while big size confinement centers can have 10 or more customers. Therefore, if you realized you pregnant, you must make appointment with confinement centers immediately as they only limit few customers.
Before you make appointment, searching for good reputation confinement centers is a must because many confinement centers are not authenticated in the market, it means that the service quality are not assured, it can lead to serious issue, your baby may be life-threatening.
Usually, confinement centers will gently prepare new mothers courses which could help in problem solving and act as warm reminders.
Confinement centers provided various services. If you prefer to stay at home during confinement period, you can ask confinement centers to send you a confinement lady to your house and some will provide confinement meal delivery. For the meal, it may cost around RM5000 or even more expensive for 28 days.
I think that if you want to get better rest during confinement period, you have to choose a good confinement lady or a high reputation confinement centers. If choose to stay at home, the mothers will be more relax instead of going to adapt new environment.
If you are unable to find confinement ladies, the only choice is confinement centers as they also have a lot of benefits given, including mothers knowledge sharing and mood sharing that can avoid sullen. If you have tired, you can pass your baby to professional working people over there.
You may find some information about confinement ladies and confinement centers at here and you may write review on them if you had experienced with their service. If you have any recommendations regarding confinement services, you are most welcome to join us or directly contact us.
