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More home-grown confinement nannies

The Straits Times 9 Oct, 2009
More home-grown confinement nannies
Courses to help older S’poreans find jobs as demand exceeds supply

By Theresa Tan

MORE Singaporeans are being trained to be confinement nannies to help new mums, a role which is now dominated by Malaysians.

The KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and the Women’s Initiative for Ageing Successfully (Wings) are jointly starting their first confinement nanny training programme next Monday.

Ms Amy Tan, the executive director of Wings, a charity which helps older women in areas such as counselling and skills training, said it decided to initiate the course as its research showed demand for such services outweighed supply here.

The course provides older Singaporeans with job opportunities as confinement nannies, who typically stay with mothers and help them care for their newborns in the first month of the child’s life.

Participants will learn how to care for a newborn, how to cook for a mother recovering from childbirth and techniques to help new mums breastfeed, among other things.

Upon successful completion of the 5-day training, participants will be awarded a certificate, and will be able to display practical and theoretical proficiency in all of the following: