BAD & UNPROFESSIONAL CONFINEMENT LADY - Fah Jie - DON'T HIRE !

I'm posting this as a warning on confinement lady. I still under confinement and I got one of the most inefficient confinement lady ever.

As I had to give birth prematurely to my baby, my confirmed CL cld not make it until two weeks later as her daughter is getting married this week. So I got a temporary one intro by another confinement lady.

This CL I had, her name is Fah Jie and her contact no. 010-2582177. Please under any circumstances, do not hire her.

On her first day, she put my electric kettle on the stove and of course, it got damaged. She said she was used to stove ones and forgotten about it. (What if she forgotten to test then bath water for baby, my baby could be in danger too)

First day she came at 4pm, already dinner to prepare. I had the same dish of sauce based for that dinner and the next whole day meal (bfast, lunch & dinner). She only cook 3 dishes a day. When asked about the usual 5 meals, she said that during afternoon, she need to take nap as at night tired taking care of baby. But my baby is still in NICU, she don't need to take care yet at all.

The 3 rd day, only I can my tonic for supper. But you know what, she serves it to me during my dinner at 7.30pm, so that she can clean up and get to bed by 9.30pm. She only get up at 7.30am the next day. It has been like this for days. Really got her beauty sleep, whereas we got to be in hospital everyday visiting my baby. We got to sleep at mid nite and up early morning to prepare see baby again.

She never clean up my kitchen until I told her too. Her excuse is that she already I clean but I don't know how she clean coz my kitchen floor look like shit still. Since she is so dirty, I cannot imagine the cleanliness of food that she is preparing for me.

She never do basic household chores, only wash my clothes. Didn't even clean the kitchen utensils properly. She even chipped my bowls which I had more than 8 years of constant using. I donno how she can do it.

Finally, I got the confinement recipe book from my friend and I just tell her what I wanted to eat. But mind you, with recipe book, she is also still a lousy cook.

I'm looking forward to few more days for the actual CL to come, hope this CL will be better for me. Sigh!

Note: DO NOT HIRE this Confinement Lady Tan Choon Fah @ Fah Jie (010-2582177).

This post has been edited by melaniekmk: Oct 29 2012, 11:24 AM

[quote=melaniekmk,Sep 30 2012, 12:26 PM]

BAD & UNPROFESSIONAL CONFINEMENT LADY - Fah Jie - DON'T HIRE !

I'm posting this as a warning on confinement lady. I still under confinement and I got one of the most inefficient confinement lady ever.

As I had to give birth prematurely to my baby, my confirmed CL cld not make it until two weeks later as her daughter is getting married this week. So I got a temporary one intro by another confinement lady.

This CL I had, her name is Fah Jie and her contact no.  010-2582177. Please under any circumstances, don't hire her.

On her first day, she put my electric kettle on the stove and of course, it got damaged. She said she was used to stove ones and forgotten about it. (What if she forgotten to test then bath water for baby, my baby could be in danger too)

First day she came at 4pm, already dinner to prepare. I had the same dish of sauce based for that dinner and the next whole day meal (bfast, lunch & dinner). She only cook 3 dishes a day. When asked about the usual 5 meals, she said that during afternoon, she need to take nap as at night tired taking care of baby. But my baby is still in NICU, she don't need to take care yet at all.

The 3 rd day, only I can my tonic for supper. But you know what, she serves it to me during my dinner at 7.30pm, so that she can clean up and get to bed by 9.30pm. She only get up at 7.30am the next day. It has been like this for days. Really got her beauty sleep, whereas we got to be in hospital everyday visiting my baby. We got to sleep at mid nite and up early morning to prepare see baby again.

She never clean up my kitchen until I told her too. Her excuse is that she already I clean but I don't know how she clean coz my kitchen floor look like shit still. Since she is so dirty, I cannot imagine the cleanliness of food that she is preparing for me.

She never do basic household chores, only wash my clothes. Didn't even clean the kitchen utensils properly. She even chipped my bowls which I had more than 8 years of constant using. I donno how she can do it.

Finally, I got the confinement recipe book from my friend and I just tell her what I wanted to eat. But mind you, with recipe book, she is also still a lousy cook.

I'm looking forward to few more days for the actual CL to come, hope this CL will be better for me. Sigh!

Note: DO NOT HIRE this Confinement Lady Tan Choon Fah @ Fah Jie (010-2582177).[/QUOTE]

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:10 pmOMG! Not only this Fah Jie damaged my electric kettle and kitchen utensils, I found out after she left that my slow cooker is also damaged. The claypot was cracked. No wonder she stop using this slow cooker for several days before she left. She didn't even bother to tell us.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:11 pm[quote=melaniekmk,Oct 21 2012, 07:07 PM]

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:10 pmOMG! Not only this Fah Jie damaged my electric kettle and kitchen utensils, I found out after she left that my slow cooker is also damaged. The claypot was cracked.  No wonder she stop using this slow cooker for several days before she left. She didn't even bother to tell us.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:20 pmBtw, the actual confinement lady came after two weeks replacing the bad CL Fah Jie (who is temporary due to my premature labour).

Her name is Chan Jie. She is of course way better than the bad one I had above.
Her cooking is quite okay, she can be better if she wants to. She had 4 years experience as confinement lady.
Well, at first she seems very helpful and quick to act whenever we needed her service. But after a week, of course we noticed that she started lacking, not as patience, always pin-pointed the negative things about my baby and the way I take care of my baby. She always say baby like got wind, tummy bulging, face yellow, maybe need to bath in yellow herbs, baby is heaty lah, need to be rub with flour. Baby fussy at night, need to say some prayer lah. Phew! A lot of superstitious stuffs and full of negativity, even when not happening. We got our baby to see the pediatric, all seems normal.
Overall, she is fine but you have to keep up or be patience with her antics.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:36 pmThe current confinement lady that I use is:

Chan Jie and her contact no. 017-6216648.
Four years of confinement experience.

Cooking is good. (Can be better)
She does household chores like cleaning the bathroom, sweeping daily & mopping the floors (2 times a week), wash clothes for me, baby and sometimes my hubby.
She cook for me breakfast, lunch, dinner & tonic after dinner. She cooks for my hubby too. Wakes up at 6.30am and sleep at around 10pm.
We took care and sleep with our own baby, she will help occasionally during feeding when daytime or evening. She will bathe baby and give baby wash up in the evening.

You may contact her for confinement service.[QUOTE]

This post has been edited by melaniekmk: Oct 29 2012, 11:03 AM

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:10 pmOMG! Not only this Fah Jie damaged my electric kettle and kitchen utensils, I found out after she left that my slow cooker is also damaged. The claypot was cracked. No wonder she stop using this slow cooker for several days before she left. She didn't even bother to tell us.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:11 pm

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:20 pmBtw, the actual confinement lady came after two weeks replacing the bad CL Fah Jie (who is temporary due to my premature labour).

Her name is Chan Jie. She is of course way better than the bad one I had above.
Her cooking is quite okay, she can be better if she wants to. She had 4 years experience as confinement lady.
Well, at first she seems very helpful and quick to act whenever we needed her service. But after a week, of course we noticed that she started lacking, not as patience, always pin-pointed the negative things about my baby and the way I take care of my baby. She always say baby like got wind, tummy bulging, face yellow, maybe need to bath in yellow herbs, baby is heaty lah, need to be rub with flour. Baby fussy at night, need to say some prayer lah. Phew! A lot of superstitious stuffs and full of negativity, even when not happening. We got our baby to see the pediatric, all seems normal.
Overall, she is fine but you have to keep up or be patience with her antics.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:36 pmThe current confinement lady that I use is:

Chan Jie and her contact no. 017-6216648.
Four years of confinement experience.

Cooking is good. (Can be better)
She does household chores like cleaning the bathroom, sweeping daily & mopping the floors (2 times a week), wash clothes for me, baby and sometimes my hubby.
She cook for me breakfast, lunch, dinner & tonic after dinner. She cooks for my hubby too. Wakes up at 6.30am and sleep at around 10pm.
We took care and sleep with our own baby, she will help occasionally during feeding when daytime or evening. She will bathe baby and give baby wash up in the evening.

You may contact her for confinement service.

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Added on October 29, 2012, 11:07 am

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:10 pmOMG! Not only this Fah Jie damaged my electric kettle and kitchen utensils, I found out after she left that my slow cooker is also damaged. The claypot was cracked. No wonder she stop using this slow cooker for several days before she left. She didn't even bother to tell us.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:11 pm

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:20 pmBtw, the actual confinement lady came after two weeks replacing the bad CL Fah Jie (who is temporary due to my premature labour).

Her name is Chan Jie. She is of course way better than the bad one I had above.
Her cooking is quite okay, she can be better if she wants to. She had 4 years experience as confinement lady.
Well, at first she seems very helpful and quick to act whenever we needed her service. But after a week, of course we noticed that she started lacking, not as patience, always pin-pointed the negative things about my baby and the way I take care of my baby. She always say baby like got wind, tummy bulging, face yellow, maybe need to bath in yellow herbs, baby is heaty lah, need to be rub with flour. Baby fussy at night, need to say some prayer lah. Phew! A lot of superstitious stuffs and full of negativity, even when not happening. We got our baby to see the pediatric, all seems normal.
Overall, she is fine but you have to keep up or be patience with her antics.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 7:36 pmThe current confinement lady that I use is:

Chan Jie and her contact no. 017-6216648.
Four years of confinement experience.

Cooking is good. (Can be better)
She does household chores like cleaning the bathroom, sweeping daily & mopping the floors (2 times a week), wash clothes for me, baby and sometimes my hubby.
She cook for me breakfast, lunch, dinner & tonic after dinner. She cooks for my hubby too. Wakes up at 6.30am and sleep at around 10pm.
We took care and sleep with our own baby, she will help occasionally during feeding when daytime or evening. She will bathe baby and give baby wash up in the evening.

You may contact her for confinement service.

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Added on October 29, 2012, 11:21 amToday is Chan Jie last 3 days as confinement lady to me. Yesterday, we discovered that the drinking water have some residues in it. It looked like some stains left from the thermos flasks. These containers are used to store red dates n rice tea. When she uses it to store water, the stain from inside peel off n are floating in the water. When she pour it out for use as cold drinking water, the residues follow as well. I queried her about it but she said that she clean very well the thermos flasks before use n don't know where the residues come from.

But you see, I use the drinking water to make formula milk for my baby, how can I not be angry when the water seems not clean n how to use it for baby to drink?

Today, I discovered that the water filter attached to my kitchen tap is dirty with some yellow stains. I told her to check it out n what causes it. She just say I don't know n just clean up the filter, regardless the fact that if it is not clean, how to use the purified water to boil for use as drinking water. Her cleanliness is lacking. I guess as the confinement lady about to leave, they will also lacked in their professionalism as well.

Very unfortunate for us all who get such irresponsible confinement lady.

I'm not recommending this CL, you be the judge before you decided to hire her.



This post has been edited by melaniekmk: Oct 29 2012, 11:21 AM

Hi Engtat! Was just checking my account and only now I see your post.

Sorry to hear about your experience with this Fah Jie. She is not fit to be a confinement lady. I guess she is only doing it for the money and not for the professionalism that this job requires. Another thing, I think the introducer Kuan Jie is also not a very honest person. Imagine, my husband complaint many many times to her about Fah Jie. She should send out the news about this lady's problems and I'm sure the Confinement people's community is able to catch the news about it and get her blacklisted.

Btw Engtat, my slow cooker is cracked. We only realised it after this Fah Jie left. Damn her really!

I hope people to be more aware and check out forums like this to find out more information before hiring any confinement lady. Don't get cheated and mental stress during confinement period. It is not pleasant!