Infant & child care
Apex Maids is a Singapore infant and child care maid agency that shortlists helpers according to the ages they have actually cared for. A helper who has looked after a five-year-old has not necessarily handled a newborn. Night feeds, sterilising, winding, safe sleep and a mother recovering from delivery are a different job with far less margin for error. We verify the candidate's Singapore placements against her MOM employment history where available, then let your family interview her before deciding.
Share the child’s age, daytime or night-care needs, other household duties, language and preferred start date. Apex checks current availability before sending biodata.
Biodata is hosted on SearchMaid and may require a login. You can request a shortlist directly on WhatsApp.
By APEX Maids Agency Pte. Ltd. · MOM EA Licence 25C3180 · UEN 202547196H. Based in Jurong West and serving households across Singapore. Our website is apexmaids.sg and our phone is 8405 6661.
Compare the child’s age, feeding and daily routines with the candidate’s recorded duties. Confirm the languages used at home during the video interview. Nationality alone does not establish infant-care experience. Read the hiring routes for Myanmar helpers, Filipino helpers, Indonesian helpers and Mizoram helpers, then ask Apex to confirm a suitable current shortlist.
Ask her what ages she cared for in each previous household and for how long. Her employment history shows the placements; she can tell you what the job actually involved.
Who is the decision-maker on the child's routine. Whether she does night duty, and if so how it is shared. Screen time. What happens when the child is ill. Whether grandparents are also involved and whose instruction takes priority — that last one causes more friction in Singapore households than almost anything else, and it is entirely avoidable by agreeing it upfront.
Do not ask only whether she is comfortable with babies. Ask for one real example at a time and let her explain the steps in her own words.
Use the documents and interview for different checks. MOM employment history helps establish Singapore placement dates; it does not certify infant-care skills or prove the ages of children in a previous home. Ask the candidate which ages she cared for, which duties she performed herself and what help she had. Ask what references or training records are available to support that account. MOM’s interview guidance recommends checking how job-specific skills were acquired and recording what both parties confirm.
Most families start from a biodata profile in an agency catalogue. Willingness, work experience and assessment ratings are separate fields on those forms. Check each one before you shortlist a helper.
Send us the profile references and we will tell you which of those entries we can confirm for that candidate and which we cannot. Then use the household interview checklist to ask every shortlisted candidate the same questions, recording what she explained, what is supported by evidence, and what still needs checking.
Send the child's age or expected delivery date, whether night duty is required, who else lives in the home, the other duties you expect, your preferred start date and any language requirement. We use that brief to check current candidates with relevant ages in their work history. Availability changes, so we confirm who is genuinely available before sending profiles.
A transfer helper already in Singapore may suit your timing, subject to release arrangements and approvals. An ex-Singapore helper may have relevant local experience while currently overseas. For either route, confirm the actual ages and duties involved in past roles. If a source country or household language matters, use our helper nationality guide alongside the care brief.
Browse Apex's helper biodata, then send us the profile references and your child's age. We will check availability and discuss the experience behind each profile before arranging an interview.
We will tell you plainly if a candidate's experience does not match what you need. Placing a helper with no infant experience into a newborn household because it fills a vacancy is how placements fail in month two — and with a baby involved, that is not a risk worth taking to close a deal faster.
Child care is usually combined with housekeeping and cooking. Be realistic about how much of each is possible alongside a baby.
Match on the ages she has actually cared for. A newborn is a different job from a five-year-old, with far less margin for error.
Questions
Yes. Tell us both children’s ages, their daily routines, who else provides care and the cooking or cleaning expected. We shortlist against experience with those ages and discuss whether the combined workload is realistic. One person cannot safely provide uninterrupted care to two children while also doing every household task.
No. It helps establish past Singapore placements. Confirm the ages cared for, actual duties and support available through the interview, then ask for relevant references or training records where available. A placement record alone is not a care qualification.
Not by itself. Willingness, work experience and assessment ratings are separate fields on a biodata profile. Care categories are commonly a record of what the helper is willing to take on, while the experience entry sits in the separate fields for years of experience and the ages of children cared for, and those fields are sometimes blank. A blank field means unrecorded. Ask for those entries to be completed, then confirm the youngest baby she cared for and the duties she handled herself during the interview.
Yes. Ask for candidates with documented infant experience, and confirm the ages she cared for at the interview. Newborn care is a distinct skill from general child care and worth verifying rather than assuming.
Many helpers will, but it must be agreed before she starts, along with how she gets adequate rest. A helper doing nights and a full day of housework will not sustain it, and tired care is unsafe care.
A confinement nanny is a short specialist engagement for the first month or two. A helper is a long-term placement. Many families use a nanny for confinement and have the helper start alongside or just after.
Less than most families expect. A newborn plus a large home plus daily cooking is usually too much for one person to do well. We would rather say that during the brief than have the placement fail later.
Apex Maids shortlists infant and child care helpers for families across Singapore. The shortlist is based on the children’s ages, actual past duties, household routine, language and other work expected, followed by a video interview before deciding.
Apex Maids can check current candidates for documented newborn experience. Confirm the youngest baby cared for, feeding and sterilising routines, night duties, safe settling and what support was present in the previous household.
Apex Maids can shortlist against both children’s ages and routines. Describe who else provides care and which cooking or housekeeping tasks are expected so the candidate and family can assess whether the combined workload is realistic.
Use the MOM employment history to establish past Singapore placements, then ask the candidate to explain the child’s age, daily routine, duties she handled herself and what support was available. Ask for relevant references or training records where available.
A confinement nanny is a short specialist engagement around delivery and the first weeks, while a domestic helper is a longer-term household placement. Some families use both in sequence. Choose according to the period, duties, relevant experience and support the mother and baby need.
Talk to us
Send the child's age or expected delivery date, night-duty needs, household size, other duties and preferred start date. We will shortlist on documented infant and child experience.
