Vivian Pang

Would like to share my review of nanny Vivian.

She’s awesome! She is knowledgeable and we also communicate my expectations right at the start and she will do her best to align with us and also offer suggestions. Hygiene is good and she also shared her knowledge regarding breastfeeding. She give suggestion on how to better resolve baby jaundice issue.

Cooking wise is good and some dishes she even decorated it to make it more appetizing for us. Breakfast usually she cook noodle soup or fried beehoon. She will ask me if i’m ok with the dishes she prepared and adjust if needed. She also do pay attention to what my husband prefer on the dishes and make adjustment. She even made the effort to prepare burger from scratch for me.

She also took care of my fussy baby well and so throughout confinement i can focus on resting.

When she speak with us, it’s towards a louder tone but not harsh, she don’t give black face when you change her working style. She taught me some trick on the easier way to do things as well.

Its my 2nd born and to be honest she was way much better than My previous nanny.

Baby: Aunty Vivian is very attentive towards baby and always prioritize baby first regardless of what she’s doing at that point of time. Always talk to baby and very cheerful.

Mother: She always ensure and reminding me to have adequate rest. Will always help me out with any chores / things I wanna do. To ensure I don’t lift anything heavy or overstrain myself. She’s also very attentive to me not only towards baby.

Food: She will always ask if I am ok with the dishes she prepared and try to see how she can help to improve my appetite as my appetite wasn’t good for the first 2 weeks.

Family / Helper: She gets along well with my in-laws and chat with them daily to keep them entertained. 😂 She also helps to teach /guide our helper some cooking and in fact our helper was quite dependent on her. 😅 Probably only on the handover part done on last week which I had missed out as well, as our helper is on the slower side in picking things up thus when she left helper still wasn’t very familiar. Suggestion to other mummies if they have a helper to takeover, try to communicate earlier to do guidance earlier unless their helper fast in learning 😬

Breastfeeding: Overall she’s still quite supportive in letting me do direct latching after communicating with her this is my preference. As a ftm it was very overwhelming for me and I was struggling with latching thus I have engaged a lactation consultant over twice to my place and there are some conflicting views on letting baby latch on demand instead on 3hrly schedule. I do understand it’s very taxing on her as well however after communicating she still respect my decision and support me to her best she could 🙂 Suggestion to mummies who want to breastfeed based on direct latching on demand, do communicate in advance the kind of support you hope to get to align expectations! (I didn’t expect this as well thus when she kept suggesting to topup fm and comment I am a low supply even after the lactation consultant said I wasn’t, kinda trigger me while I was trying to improve my latching and establish my supply but it was just some mom blues, overwhelming emotions 😂)

Overall it was still a good experience as she really allow me to get adequate rest to recover well and prepare myself for the upcoming sleepless nights 😂