hi guys,

been considering this confinement centre in Section 1 for my wife to say during her confinement period. Not sure if anyone is aware of it, its run by Daveleen. Reason being, we had a nightmare of an experience with the confinement lady we hired after the first pregnancy. And seeing that the centre seem to have everything in place, am seriously considering this. So i would like to humbly seek any members here with experience staying there to give me more insight. many thanks.

when is ur wife due date? I got one very good breastfeeding friendly confinemt centre to recommend at kota damansara run by Gina Yong a lactation consultant. The CC is call BONDAVILLA will be opening soon. I got the confinement package of what they offer but the price is not out yet. Gina is very good she will asure ur wife to hv a wonderful confinement. Pls join The breastfeeding advocates network in facebook.

thanks for your reply. My wife is due in early Nov.

Isn't this place in Kota Kemuning? Check their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonda-Villa/190665587717052

And on Daveleen, I have heard many negative comments about it, though I have never experienced it myself. You can google about the comments - don't know how true they are.

I think, Confinement Centres in Malaysia today are still not very up-to-standard compared to the ones in Taiwan or US. But if you really don't trust Confinement Nanny, the only choice is to engage this kind of services.

I hope you can get a good one, and if you do, be sure to share with us! All the best!

thanks for your reply. I've done my fair search on google, but the only comments that i came across are way back in 2005. havent seen any recent comments. The consultant did admit to me (withouth me asking) that they were in quite a disarray when they first started, but they're very much in control now after taking in feedback over the years. still in dilemma

Hi, I have had experienced staying there 2 years ago at a Center called Mom's Paradise (run by a subsidary of Daveleen). I was recommended there by a friend that also used their service.There hv been running this business for the past 10 yrs or more. At 1st, I was a bit reluctant, as I was quite skeptical abt doing my confinement outside the comfort of my home.
But amazingly, it turned out to be quite a pleasant experience. Well, I guess opinions differs from 1 another. My personal opinion is to go for the more established ones. And it's best to personally visit all the Centers to judge for urself b4 deciding.
Plus, they also provide Rejuvena 30! I felt superb and my womb has recovered soon after i checked out

hi,

my sister in law just came back from daveleen at section1, previously i sent my wife to daveleen too but its was at the old place in ss4.

my 2 cents is, now its way too commercialized. one big problem i found out was, the nannies there keep switching (come n go) alot, so the amount of care of your baby is very less.

the communication between nannies is also bad.

second thing, with the amount of the mothers there, you cant really get to rest much. 1 big bungalow house about 20 mothers or so at 1 time. and the space of each room is pitifully small.

when u walk into daveleen, you feel like as if its a whore house or a hanky pank spa than a mom's paradise.

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Added on June 15, 2012, 1:44 pmthe old place at ss4 was way better, 1 house abt 4-5 mothers at 1 time and the rooms are huge. also like a hotel room.



This post has been edited by servo: Jun 15 2012, 01:44 PM

Hi Servo,

Thanks for sharing!

Is it the same thing called Mom's Paradise? They look pretty nice on their website though... Check it out...

http://www.moms2b.com/Postnatal+Home+Retreat_25_1.htm

What about the food? Are they warm and well-cooked?

thanks for the feedback. the rejuvena 30 is tempting indeed. My wife did not take that during her confinement after delivering our first child.

yeah.. i've been to the place to check it out. i saw that the small room was pretty cramped. which is why i opted for the room with attached bathroom.

can you eleborate further on the communication part? would like to know what to watch out for next time.

that's the same place as the house in SS1, the room with attached bathroom is much bigger.. but i'm curious abou the feedback on the food as well.

food? its actually quite yummy, i tried it. but its kinda routine.. some every other day or so you'll get the same food.

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Added on June 18, 2012, 4:39 pmcommunication part meaning.. if your baby has special needs or its fussy in a way and perhaps only 1 or 2 nanny at that time knew about it, it probably wont pass down to the newer nanny.

last time my wife was there at the old place in ss4, its easier cos the number mommies there is much lesser only abt 5 at that time. with 4 nanny. so the care and attention is more, and i specifically told the nannies there i dont want my daughter to sleep on a rocker or takes a pacifier to shut up or to sleep.

Now, as far as i see... its quite different, alot of babies in there now, only mom can go in to baby room.



This post has been edited by servo: Jun 18 2012, 04:39 PM

any confinement centers in Kepong area or somewhere near there?

I went to visit my good friend stayed in Daveleen aka Pei Ling aka Mom's Paradise - same management. They used nannies/CL from dunno where cannot speak proper Mandarin/Cantonese. Communication is a huge problem!
liker Servo's comment: they just use pacifier (maybe shared among babies) to silent your brood.
When she visited the place to assess it in BU, wow she was impressed with the emergency/SOS button at the bedside and how presentable they made the place+ features++
After staying she had problems, and useless to scold nannies she said not their fault (turnover rate is high). She saw a fellow mommy complained to management who in turn scolded nanny. The nanny then grumbled (dunno got mistreat that particular bb or not) when handling that baby.
I look fwd Gina Yong's Bonda Villa instead in Kota Kemuning.

You doing your confinement there? Any reviews?

I'm necro'ing this thread since it's related to what I'm about to inquire on.

Anyone has experience with Happy Dolphin Confinement Center on Penang island? I was planning to send my wife to O'hana but it has closed down for quite some time so it's time to survey for an alternative before she gives birth. I've been reading on the reviews on a few confinement centers & most of them are complaints rather than recommendations.

Yes, you are right. It is run by Daveleen and it is called Mom's Paradise Confinement Centre. Was introduce by my cousin's sister. Previously they have many centres in ss4, taman tun, bandar utama & damansara jaya but only can accumulate 6-8 mothers back in 2005. Recently they rebuild a bungalow lot. If I'm not mistaken, it is big enough to fit 19-20 mummies.

The whole purposed of staying in the centre compared to hiring a CL is
Mother, MIL, Husband don't have to worry about preparing food such as going to the market, cooking preparation (normally it takes up alot of time) food menu, helping the baby to bath and washing the dishes.
Through my experienced, staying in the centre make me feel stress free. They prepare me 5 meals a day and herbal bath for me every morning and evening. The nannies work as a team to look after our babies by feeding, bathing & etc.. They have a complete baby chart for us to monitor and keep us update. So we don't have to be worried.
Of cuz, they also have a office which is nearby in ss2/3 where they provide a complete postnatal products.

It was a good experience for me during my stay at mom's paradise. The level of comfort and care that I received make it more worthwhile since this is my first pregnancy.

we've been there for the past 20 days. I can tell you the service is superb!

so what u wanna know about them? it would be easier for u to ask specifically, easier for me to answer u

I heard about Hapiness Mom based in Puchong from my cousin, she was there for a week because she wanted to fly back to her hometown and baby can't fly if too small.

According to her it's pretty good, food is yummy and staff are friendly, but price not too cheap leh...well I don't know about prices from other centers so I can't comment much. Anyone heard or been there before?

They also act as an agency which sends out CLs, I think.

I've recently heard from a friend who lived in Johor that a newly Confinement centre was set up 3 months ago as top operation called Happy Mama and recently has closed down.
I guess it is not easy to run a full operating nursing centre with good consultant and nannies who shared their experienced and knowledge of confinement.
I honestly dislike pantang-larangs rules. I would based my confinement knowledge on the right way and education.

Too late. Guess I was there before you.
Was there in end Dec till Jan.

Great place - Bonda Villa. Highly recommended if you are thinking of Breast Feeding. Gina was literally hands on to get get the milk flowing. Guaranteed to have milk if you are there, despite all the naysayers around you.

Nice, very clean place. All rooms have bathroom attached with Queen sized Getha mattress. Not some cheap spring single bed.
Generous rooms size, not like some of the other confinement centers with "prison" sized rooms. Baby sleeps in the room with you and daddy can sleep in too with dinner provided. I was staying there almost 3 weeks...

Also all the food is organic...

If you are thinking of breast feeding then do drop by Bonda Villa, even if you are not going to stay there. They conduct many BF workshops there.

eventually where u go?

I enrolled my wife into the Happy Dolphin Confinement Center that I mentioned in the post you quoted. Compared to Jia Yi (if you're Penangite, Jia Yi is located near Botanical Garden) it's still new & the confinement lady herself is a strong advocator of breastfeeding.

i enroll on batu maung 'ai xin'

feel that the place and service is much more than h.d

i saw h.d. provide cake as tea break, funny

I think different parents-to-be have different set of requirements & preferences when it comes to choosing a confinement center.

my friend went to happy dolphin confinement center. very nice she said. service, food, environment all very nice n good. they even have 1 to 1 breastfeeding consultation to make sure u breastfeed successfully. the owner herself is a strong breastfeeding advocate. nurses also very professional. she said she really enjoyed her confinement there. she didn't feel like confinement, but holiday there for 1 month....

Good to hear that & thanks for providing us the feedback. I've registered my wife there a couple months ago & I'll chip in once my wife personally go through her confinement there.

My mother is a confinement lady which based at Klang Valley. Kindly email to me at jessibert88@hotmail.com if interested. Many thanks~

Jia Yi at Waterfall Road @ Penang. Very good.

Back then my time it was RM 3800. Heard the price increase d...

Momretreat is one of the option if u seek for traditional malay confinement center.

:-)

Hi

Has anyone tried Hearty Carnation Confinement Center in Subang?
Any reivew and feedback?

Thanks

Have tried Sunrise Confinement centre in year 2012 (NOV) what i can relli say is they are sucks. Been observing about the services and how they handle the babies and felt heartbroken on what they have done to my 2nd daughter.
First you can see the baby sitter handle yr baby (not only mine, but all of the babies except her own daughter's baby) roughly. The baby sitter will get the baby for morning bath (real morning yo, 5am to 6am), imagine how bb can handle the cold, and the worst thing is right after taking bath they will place bb in the aircond (freezing) room. The most hated things comes when someone told my wife (definately one of the mummy there) that the baby sitter too lazy to swing two baby in different swing bed so the baby sitter place my bb at that time still healthy together with another bb( fall sick, with flu) in the same swing bed. WTH, we still din't do anything towards the baby sitter because we dun want to make things worse especially baby still under her care, then the expected things happen, finally my bb got infected and me have to run few rounds to hospital and clinic.
Just a few days my bb affected, that particular bb sitter's daughter's delivered bb and will also stay in Sun Rise confinement, the previous sick bb and mom already finish their stay so they move out before the baby sitter granddaughter came in, unlucky to my bb, once her granddaughter in they simply kick (move) my bb out from bb room and place her at the kitchen where there are a lot of mosquito with no proper air ventilation. I was relli furious that time and decided to move my wife and bb back home on that evening (wife was crying seeing my baby being bullied in that way, what a innocent one).
There are few point to be consider of,
1, why the baby sitter did not isolate the sick baby (previous one) and do not mix with others healthy baby?
2, Why Sunrise confinement centre boss allowed the baby sitter to let baby take their bath in 5am?
3, Why only isolate my baby after the baby sitter granddaughter move in?
4, For extra info, this baby sitter is not just a baby sitter in Sunrise confinement centre, in fact during morning shift she is a baby sitter at nearby confinement centre, during her service in sunrise (night shift) she will just sleep at the baby's room with full aircond running.

Conclusion, have made a complain to the sunrise confinement centre boss and the boss just simply replied, nothing we can do. Really disappointed with the irresponsible respond. For those who are staying in Penang, and who are looking for confinement centre, pls beware and choose wisely, try to avoid Sunrise Confinement centre. There are still many bad thing happen during my wife and 2nd daughter stay there, its just too much to write it here. Anyway just wanna share my bad experience here and i am not a very particular here, as my elder daughter time we are also enroll in another confinement centre and they provide good service there, but unfortunately the confinement close down during my 2nd daughter time.

so sorry to hear that, i would recommend you to go nejlika confinement centre, it is in ampang.

i can just say the centre is the best among the other few centre i have visited and stay in personally few years back.

you can check it out at www.facebook.com/nejlikacc

agree with you, anna. my experience in nejlika is superb!!!

If anyone of ur friends recommend a confinement lady named Nai Kee.Hp:0123398865.plssss avoid this CL.she is very lazy,not hygienic, like to play handphone when on duty,nvr follow instruction and etc..I used her for 6 days only.
At night when baby cry she jz cover her face with blanket.and she eat a lot too...
So plssss dun take her as ur CL if u want to hv a enjoyable confinement.

I had bad experienced with Davel**n Confinement Centres at PJ. I subscribed to confinement meals delivery for 28 days for RM3K++ but they provide unacceptable service.

The vegetables provided is yellowish and it seen not fresh when you see it. As usual you will get your meals at 12noon but their delivery is not punctual because they delivery your meal at 2pm without any notice from them. YOU NEED TO WAIT YOUR MEALS FOR another 2 HOURS WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY!!!

They are all money-oriented.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. Why not hire a confinement lady to your house? I know a good one is hard to come by. But at least you get 24 hrs care.

I would say its a bad experience at first sight. The 'sales auntie' who was suppose to explain the package to us was not that friendly, not professional. My wife's confinement period is close to CNY, so even if my wife DD is late, she say have to take home the CL. What the???!!! what am i suppose to do with the CL even my wife havent deliver???!!

She was inpatient, just ask us to sign today for the promotion bla bla bla...

I went to a few confinement centre and this sucks. Some centre cost lower and they have a better service and attitude to explain. I cant believe whoever open this centre never do any quality checks.

Yup, my wife just completed her confinement in Nejlika, and the experience is superb with top notch service!.

Have tried GiGi Confinement nanny Service Center at mahkota Cheras. Not bad as the price is reasonable.

Anyone has experience with Mum&Baby centere in Seremban S2?
They engaged nurses to take care of baby and it is more on the halal diet.

I had a very worst experienced at De Garden confinement center.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-Garden-Co...241910242660999

We took single room during the confinement and pay RM5000 per month. Money not a concern for us but the concept is a problem for us. It may not bad for all people so you have to judge yourself.

Cons:
1. Not breastfeed friendly. They always request you to mix with formula milk.
2. Not direct latch friendly. They discourage direct latch and insist to pump then bottle feed. They will always ask you to pump and don't direct latch.
3. Insist use of pacifier. It make baby addicted with it and harder to take care after back home.
4. Baby not allow to stay in mommy room too long.
5. Baby not allow to sleep with mom even if for the reason of direct latch.
6. If father in the room (single room only of course), baby not allow to enter the room.
7. Father not allow to touch the baby. Even there are hand sanitizer in the center.
8. They will very seldom carry the baby for mother especially direct latch. They will knock your door and ask you to nursery to carry your baby if you want direct latch. Most of the time they will ask you to direct latch at nursery room. So you need to get latching cloth for cover else every visitor can see your breast outside the nursery.
9. For bottle feed, they will ask you to nursery room for bottle feed. Not allow to bring back to room.
10. Midnight shift nanny usually sleeping. So don't expect them to allow direct latch or carry baby to you.
11. They don't clean baby ears for you. So you need to do it yourself.
12. The nannies are not friendly if you are focus on breast feed especially direct latch.
13. They will keep complain if you pump not enough breast milk.
14. The nannies are very lazy. Don't expect to request help from them.

Pros:
1. Sufficient food and drinks for mother. Most of the time is traditional food, sometimes there are western food.
2. Enough rest for mother if you are on full formula milk because they won't come disturb you at all.
3. The maid is very polite and friendly.


Basically if you are looking for breast feed friendly confinement center, this is absolutely NOT a place for you. If you are looking for confinement that you can sleep the entire night and discourage husband from coming, this is a good place for you. So it is actually priority on mommy that baby.

Anyone has experience with Fong Chai Confinement center in Puchong BK9?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E5%B3%B0%E9...306?sk=timeline

anyone hv good confinement lady to introduce? pls pm me.
my wife expected to due on next 2 weeks
thanks!

To know is the confinement lady are good or not, asking her some simple questions will know.
Must know :
1. every women after deliver sure have milk, is matter of time(from 3-7 days)
2. know how to use traditional herbs to prepare soup, drink everyday
3. have knowledge on jaundis and to counter it with natural ways
4. know how to cook and not waiting for orders
5. able to maintain cleanliness of baby and mother
6. know how to keep baby awake on day time, so night time baby can sleep better

Must not :
1. talk too much especially talking on other people
2. using pampers every time
3. have 0 knowledge on using traditional herbs

Sadly, the confinement lady that we got and mother in law can't do a single on must know but do all the must not

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Confin..._homepage_panel

New Confinement home in Sg Ara Penang.

This post has been edited by Goneraz: Dec 30 2014, 04:55 PM

I'm 5 months +++, due in late March 2015 / early April 2015 , any confinement center in Seri Kembangan ?

PM or send email to momolingyee@gmail.com

This post has been edited by momolingyee: Jan 13 2015, 10:12 PM

Hi I'm a mother staying at De Garden before ... I'm not really have lots milk to supply my son so
1. I agree with mix cos my milk not not enough for my son and my son keep crying and hungry so I mix till my milk supply is enough then I go for full BF
2. I personally direct in day and night I prefer rest and sleep
3. My 1st baby also I go there .. In confinement take pacifier after 3 months my girl also don't take anymore and my 2nd son too after confinement don't eat d so cannot eddicted to pacifier so I got no worries on this
4&5. I agree with the rules because we need more rest if baby keep sleeping with me I will not have good rest although bonding is important but I also need rest la .. Beh tahan to hear them cry ... After my confinement I miss to stay there cause go home I kelam kabut can't get to rest
6&7. Father not allow to touch I agree also although my hubby wanted to carry very much. I'm ok wt it cos understand daddy might bring virus from outside and baby antibody still weak
8. I no commend
9. Just let nanny feed la we pay for their service ma why wanna feed by ourself ?
10. Night usually nanny sleep when baby sleeping .. I saw wt my eyes when baby cry they wake up feed .. No wrong and nannies also human la .. U go other places where mother can't go in eh what happening inside also nobody knows .. Haha
11. No commend
12. Repeat problems from the top.. If can go in baby room u must open 1 ear close 1 ear else better choose confinement that mother can't get to go in baby room ... Here open for mother to see feeding whereas other places can't go in you won't know what goin on inside
13. Yaya beginning I also not enough milk supply so how? I also can't do anything and my son need milk so what i do I continue latch during day 3 times only cos too tired every hour direct and can't get to rest so I mix till my milk supply is a lot then I stop formula
14. Nannies lazy?? I feel they quite responsible, they operate 7 years already and those nannies very experienced I have been there twice and I'm satisfied wt new rules or else last time baby can bring out for visitors which is not good for babies

Overall okay I feel cos if you prefer 1 to 1 or fully attention I advice you take confinement lady but confinement lady no garentee you can have good rest or know to handle baby well. I know now atleast got breastfeeding talk to help and guide new mothers which are good compare to last time I stay. And if you not happy why you dint talk to the person incharge there?? Now after your confinement only you commend? Atleast you tell them and they can take action right. The lady Angie is there everyday what.

#46 is from #40 peenut ... #47 is the reply...

Something to share and those considering which confinement center should check this out.

There is a flu outbreak in Mom's Paradise / Daveleen / mom2b with one newborn baby still in ICU.

Hope this help!

Nanyang Press News - http://www.nanyang.com/node/683102?tid=460
China Press News - http://www.chinapress.com.my/node/601349

This post has been edited by RynLCyn: Feb 25 2015, 02:54 PM

Can't read Chinese. What happened? I stayed there in January after I delivered lucky nothing happen then. I thought their services was OK.

Fong Chai Confinement Center not bad. Nice food and portion are big. Most important is they only take in not more than 5 mummies and each mummies have dedicated CL.

Thanks Lin Lin.
I have booked with Fong Chai/Aim Confinement center.
After reading on the news on Mom Paradise, I feel glad that I do not choose them. They can take up to 19 mothers and babies at one time which we do not like.
Choose Fong Chai because they take in only limited number of mother.

How's your confinement in fong chai?

Fong Chai's rate is from 7xxx~10xxx. Is there any other confinement center near Puchong at cheaper rate?

Any recommendation or updates from mummy?

Country Living Confinement Center in Penang is a trickery confinement center!
1. I didn't see any doctor visiting mummy for whole month
2. Nurse is a part time nurse, not 24 hours nursing care
3. Is a formula milk consultant confinement center, not 'breastfeeding consultant', they stored my breast milk with their food fridge. And they also give you the information that your breastfeeding is not enough for your baby, use your formula milk first
4. Not encourage direct breast feeding, because they can't make a beautiful feeding record for baby and our body is high germ, that is not good for baby
5. Boss is a marketing professional, she will promote you to buy protein and honey. After you bought it, your breakfast, tea time or supper will be drink your own drink, not beverage provide from them
6. Boss will encourage you to take bath everyday, so that she can charge you RM15 after you finished 4 free herbal baths
7. After you fully paid the confinement fees, the attitude of boss will change
8. Meals served not on time
9. Curtain at baby room will close when the nanny is not enough, so that you cannot see your baby and the situation in the baby room
10. They will send your baby to you anytime, including midnight, when they can't handle your baby, they will say that your baby is naughty and don't want to sleep
11. The environment looks nice but when raining day, the dining room and the second floor corridor will leaking
12. Only fan during dining and living room(the aircon at living room is not so cold)
13. I hated to have fried rice as my breakfast, at lease twice a week, when yesterday the rice still left
14. Boss will complain if your room aircon temperature below 24 degrees and always remind you that you have to switch off aircon when you leave your room for meals
Conclusion is mummy cannot take a good rest in country living confinement center. First, mummy have to walking up and down at least 10 times per day(5 for having meals, others will be send your pump materials for nanny washing or meet you visitor. Second, your baby don't have a good care during night shift, it will caused you can't have a good sleeping quality at night.

Anyone stayed in Bonda Villa recently?

What's the package like, and more importantly, experience to share?

Thanks.

Bondavilla is really good! You get what you pay for: cloth nappies, clothes for newborn, branded organic toiletries for yourself and baby, multiple meals per day with portion that is not small as you need all the nutrients for body and breastfeeding, sleep on Getha bed, herbal bath, post natal massage covered depending on package (if you want, extend the post natal package), meal and laundry for father (which is really important as I needed my husband by my side daily). The drinks provided to keep your milk supply up is refillable as much as you want and they will change it for you every day.

I stayed there recently as I wanted peace of mind, and most importantly to be able to breastfeed. The nurses and consultants were very patient with me and my baby, and eventually I managed to breastfeed fully.

If you are not into full breastfeeding, this is not the place for you as the nurses will come knocking the door for direct latch every 2 hours. If you're up to it, then you're encouraged to have baby sleeping with you so that you can bond even more and to feed on demand. I got a lot of tips in this place ie how to burp the baby, how to feed the baby correctly, how to store pumped milk, how to baby wear etc. If you're lucky, you get to join classes arranged by the place. The recent one I attended is how to massage baby, which is very beneficial for me to increase bonding time and also to soothe when baby is colicky or is teething.

I have amazing experience there and it helps that I happen to stay nearby the place. I get visitors and since it's a big semi-d, the living room is big enough to cater to a big group of family members. Of course we have to be mindful of other mothers who want rest and not make a ruckus.

mind pm me the package u choosen? and this place is at bonda villa kota komuning right? how early b4 should 1 book for placement normally?
interested to know about it... haha

Last year I had my confinement in Bondavilla for my twin babies. It is not as good as my expectation. The fee is about RM12,000 for 28 days,
but i just stayed for one week and decided to give up and i compensated 50% about RM6000 to them.
I have very good supply of breastmilk, before i stay in Bondavilla, I used breast pump to pump out in hospital so that I can keep some stock after I go to work and my boys can drink the stock.

After i checked in Bondavilla, i only knew that they are not allow to use breast pump unless you get special approval from their management because they said they are breast feeding friendly centre and they want mum to direct latch their baby. They said I have oversupply and insisted that I cannot manual express or pump after direct latch because they want to help me to reduce my supply. My breast was engorged for the whole night.
Another mummy opposite my room also face the same problem. She has fever after bondavilla doesnt allow her to use the breast pump, the breast is engorged.
After few times complaint and negotiation, finally they allowed us to use breastpump inside the room.

The business owner and lactation consultant will come to centre to take care the mummy.
However, almost all of the nurses are very young and they are not mother yet, the most experience nurse is only two years experience.

My premie doesnt know how to suck the breast milk well and the nurse inserted their finger into my baby for mouth stimulation without washing their finger in advance. The lactation consultant also inserted her finger without washing in advance and her nail is very long. I really do not like it.

Overall, the environment in Bondavilla is very clean and comfortable. Bed is also high quality. Food is nice. but i do not like their in house rules. I think they are too commercialized and the nurse is not caring enough.
It is depend on person. I think for certain person who enjoy direct latch and dont like to use breast pump, it might be good place for them.

Hi all...

Would like to know, why u all choose a confinement center rather than a CL? Isn't it a 1-1 CL is a better choice? And much cheaper?

And, is there a lift in the confinement center? Otherwise, have to ask the mummy to walk up and downstairs post delivery.... painful wei....

Actually I'm trying to look for the comments of confinement centers around Selangor area... I noted that recently there r not much reviews... most of the confinement centers already closed down? Then I left with not much choices now...

My wife currently at confinement center at KL for 2nd week, can refer fb link for the information, also can PM me for more details. I found this confinement center at baby fair and choose it after compare with other confinement center I asked.
https://www.facebook.com/estherpostpartumcare/

1 month ago, my wife sister in-law hire a CL and what I can see the different are the meal for mom, the baby care, the environment, the course they provided. From my in-law story to us, they are not happy having that CL in their house.

At CC (confinement center), I can stay there to accompany my wife and baby. At night we can send baby to baby room and there are real nurse to take care the babies, we can have enough rest during the night. If baby hungry, they will warm the extra breast milk from mom and feed baby. Luckily my wife produce enough milk for the night. If not enough milk during first few days, they will ask if you have formula milk to feed baby before mom have enough milk.

The meal they provide are also balance and complete, main dish, side dish, vege, soup, and many herb tea, morning, lunch and dinner + tea break (soup or dessert)

They also provide course on meal, baby care, yoga, breast feeding,


If hire CL, early morning kong kong kang kang already at kitchen cooking disturb in-law sleep, cooking gas few tong a week, and in-law need to cook dinner for CL also, If some good CL able to cook for whole family. Most CL are just doing their job and do not educate much on baby care, too work oriented till i cannot feel they love baby, but just to complete their job.

Hi,

Anyone from Seri Petaling area ? as me and my wife are expecting our 1st end of 2017,we are currently looking for confinement options. Either confinement lady or confinement center.

Anyone heard of or been to this center ? FIRST MONTH ? may be could share your experience.

Thanks !

Why don't u check their FACEBOOK page for more review?

my friend had bad experience staying at esther postpartum recently..it was overbooked (must be greedy) and she was asked to stay at another block...
according to her, the food was bland and the tea provided (only hint of red dates) also quite tasteless..doesnt help to promote breast milk..the room has alot of mosquitoes..and she was asked to change room few times during her stay there to accomodate new mummy coming in..very unprofessional service staff..
no free laundry except for the red ugly pyjamas they wear everyday.. was considering that place..but after hearing all these negative feedbacks...will keep looking...
For 15k,+ she was expecting better than this..anyway, thats' her experience...

My friend also had a terrible experience from Esther postpartum. Initially his daughter was healthy and clear from any illness, but after came out from this center, his poor daughter had pneumonia (肺炎) spread by other infected baby, and his daughter is 3rd case, thanks god his daughter is recovered. His wife complained to their taiwan HQ but never get feedback/reply from them, just keep silent. Outside looks very luxury but service is horrible. Think twice before send your precious one there.

i heard good things about Gina's in old klang road.

I saw a few comments on Esther Postpartum Care. My wife stayed there for a month earlier this year. It was the 2nd place we looked at and immediately signed up coz for Father’s Day offer of 20 percent discount at rm 13k (cheapest package) with some freebies. Chose this because another family there said this is the best LOL 😅

Anyways my intent was for wife to recuperate and get the luxury treatment vs staying at home (so she come out healthier and more energetic and not stress) and I would say Esther care fulfilled that role.

IMHO the service was excellent. The nurses were at our beck and call (give or take couple of mins), doctors were friendly, there was a Taiwan specialist who teach how to breastfeed and she made great friends there.

Some of the small nice touches is that they use KAO merries diapers (most expensive diaper brand in the market and supposedly best), sebamed toiletries, 40-50 inch TVs (for husbands like me to play PS4), swimming for babies, etc

But I also heard complaints from them similar to what some of the above mentioned so hopefully they look into it.

Wifey just recently checked out from Bondavilla. Pretty good experience. The outstanding thing about this centre is their food.

Hi moms, for those that have been staying in confinement centres before, may I know did you give ang pao to the nanny, chef and any staff?

i just checked out.
apparently all the nurses are malay

not sure the chef,

err not sure about this but my friend was from seremban and she go to D'Home confinement..very clean and relax place la..food is also good and tasty..but mostly for chinese la..

Chef's an Indonesian Christian. Cooking is not bad, but traditional Chinese may chaff.

My MIL picked on the type of vegs, lack of ginger, type of meat, and cooking style, but my wife enjoyed her meals.

Anybody stayed at LYC mother n child confinement centre.. any feedback?

I heard good reviews of the place but personally the interior is a turn off to me

Looks like land before time

Check out the flooring and bathroom sink. The sink is yellowish and flooring is in your grandfather's time

Anyway, this is in Subang. You rarely go wrong in Subang because ppl here very vocal



This post has been edited by g r a p e k e y: Dec 12 2018, 09:27 PM

Thanks for sharing the horrible experience. Guess what? I just check out their Facebook page and found out their reviews are hidden ;p

Hi, I think you've misundeestood kashirachiam's negative feedback on your confinement food.

I mean come on, if you're going to deliver at 2pm, just say so la

Don't say 12pm but deliver at 2pm.

It pisses ppl off generally

How would you feel if you were her?

Because if it happens to me, I would ensure you go viral

This post has been edited by g r a p e k e y: Dec 13 2018, 11:12 PM

Had a bad experience at SN Confinement Centre in Sri Petaling, not recommended.

- not all confinement ladies there are good, really depends on your luck.
- food is lousy, poor quality ingredients and not tasty. soup taste like water. what u see on their fb is what u "dont" get.
- got ghost there (place is not clean in chinese saying), one of the ladies staying there said she saw something crawling about. Asked the confinement lady about this phenomenon and she confirmed its true she also saw. I dont believe in this so i dont care but its very disturbing.
- rooms are subpar for the price, some got hardly any sunlight. Mattress is lousy and bedframe is so creaky. furniture is old.
- milk quality is not as advertised, say they will give u one brand but in fact sometimes they use cheaper brand.

Yixin confinement, I have really no words to complaint. We did clarify clearly at the first place, if encounter any emergency circumstances , our deposit that we paid can be refundable..and of course when collecting money, they would telling you everything OK unless we can present the hospital relevant letter..

Unluckily, there was unpredictable situation happened to my baby, and my wife unable to stay at yixin xonfinement, we quickly requested for refund and show doctor write in letter, but the person in charge told us their partnership can only approve 50% of deposit to return to us. Fine, to be fair that, I agree with you because you also need to bear the loss..

Finally, when I going to claim back our 50% deposit again, the different ppl informed us the company rules state that it is non refundable, even single cent. They are trying to fool their client anyway.. very depress.
I have nothing to do now, so if you want to choose yixin confinement, better think twice. I have my lesson learned, so you decide yourself.

Yi Xin confinement

Thanks for the feedback. Really helpful for the mummy to decide which centre to go to. Their fb page having all the good feedback from their “customer” really misleading us in believing they r good.. sighh 😌

My wife is due with our first baby boy mid of Sept this year. We both survey 2 CC located in Kota Kemuning , Bondavilla and Best Month. My very first impression when i step into Bondavilla is the baby room is exactly facing the main door which i feel very unsafe. Only CCTV secured the CC with no any security guard around. 2nd is the consultant stated that the baby will be place together with the mother most of the time. This is very subjective but imho, mother should rest more when confinement period rather than learn to take care of the baby. 3rd, the condition of the CC is not really clean and comfortable but this is very subjective too, depending on individual. The last part ,i was shock that they wil charge RM500 if the mother want to use formula milk instead of breastfeed

End up i choose Best Month for my wife. The moment we step into the CC, we know that this is the one .Yes, it really burn my pocket bu at least this is the best i can do for my wife comparing the hassle that my wife is facing during 9 month pregnancy.

Anyway anyone here did stay before in Best Month CC. Any comment?

Would like to ask if anyone can share their experience with Esther Postpartum Care in Damansara Perdana Branch.

Before this we had survey a few places and paid deposit to this center as their center had the best offer in the price range of 15k in term of facilities and services.

However, recently my wife heard alot of unverified negatives review on this center through the word of mouth from her peer and now it had caused my wife to be in depression as she is very worry about the center service that might happen to us as well.

We are currently in dilemma whether to cancel the contract that we had signed earlier on and get a new confinement center instead.

Anyone else had dealt with this situation before can give any suggestions for us?

This post has been edited by Garenyu: Jan 16 2020, 04:23 PM

My wife has just recently been to Esther in KL’s branch for 28 days. If I were to rate I’ll probably go 7.5/10 though you can see alot of good reviews on FB and whatnot. We took the place because the area is just 5mins to my office hence we went for convenience instead. Do PM me if you want to have more info.

Hello I’m currently in this dilemma. I’ve been called by Esther Postpartum Care four times thus far in regards to my due date. I’m very shocked by this. Like as a mom, how would I know when exactly is my due date unless I elect for an induction or c-section. So ridiculous. It made me angry to the point that I am looking into alternatives.

I actually just came from a visit at Bondacare. Of course, the place may not look clean due to the flooring. The owner explained that when they first moved in they used the previous owner used a wrong solution to clean up the place.
They seem to offer personalised care rather than have few nurses looking after tonnes of babies though.

I’m still deciding at this moment.

How much is the deposit paid? If it's not a lot, you could survey around first before making the decision.
Else, perhaps you can talk to the salesperson/PIC at Esther about your concerns. Perhaps they can address them before you check in.

Normally you have an estimated due date, are they aware of this date? If they are and you're planning for natural, they shouldn't keep asking about it.

Since all we heard was just rumor and there was no solid proof and didn't know any actual person that had these issues, we had revisited the center and decided to stay on the current plan since we had already paid the deposit for the service in the first place.

The deposit that we paid was 30% which is roughly around 5k.

Finger Cross, Hope for the best now...

How much is the total price? Which branch? Hope you will have a good stay there.

double post

This post has been edited by starianz: Feb 4 2020, 10:50 AM

Should be around 15,900 or 16,900 package.

We have signed up at the Esther Damansara Perdana Branch.

I looked into their website, they only have 2 branches ?
I guess it is not updated.

Mind to share me the package details?

Looking for confinement center because, i don't think my place will be able to fit a nannies, as we stay in a studio. Just perfect for two.