Having a baby in Singapore: the admin in English

Every official step of having a baby in Singapore, in plain English, each one checked against an official source and dated. 16 steps, from choose where you will have the baby, and book the first appointment to childcare leave: 2 days a year for a non-citizen child.

• Choose where you will have the baby, and book the first appointment usually between week 8 and week 10 of the pregnancy
• Find out what your health cover actually pays towards the birth usually between week 9 and week 11 of the pregnancy
• The scans: dating, first-trimester screening and the anomaly scan usually between week 11 and week 21 of the pregnancy
• Tell your employer, and check which maternity leave you get usually between week 16 and week 18 of the pregnancy
• Paternity leave: 4 weeks for a citizen child, none by law otherwise usually between week 20 and week 22 of the pregnancy
• Get on infant care waiting lists now, or decide on a helper usually between week 20 and week 26 of the pregnancy
• Book the hospital and put down the deposit usually between week 22 and week 24 of the pregnancy
• Book antenatal classes usually between week 26 and week 28 of the pregnancy
• Decide on a confinement nanny, and sort her work permit early usually between week 28 and week 30 of the pregnancy
• Register the birth within 42 days, on LifeSG within 2 weeks of the birth
• Get the baby a passport from your own country within 3 weeks of the birth
• Baby Bonus and the Child Development Account, if the baby is a citizen within 6 weeks of the birth
• Apply for the baby's Dependant's Pass before the Special Pass runs out between 7 days and 5 weeks after the birth
• Book the baby's jabs and check-ups between 2 weeks and 8 weeks after the birth
• Confirm the infant care place, or the helper's arrival between 8 weeks and 3 months after the birth
• Childcare leave: 2 days a year for a non-citizen child between 2 months and 3 months after the birth

Start from where you are

• What to do, week by week every step in the order it happens, by trimester and after the birth
• Pregnant in Singapore as an expat: the first things to do 4 steps, each with its own verified answer
• Maternity and paternity leave in Singapore 3 steps, each with its own verified answer
• The 42 days after a birth in Singapore 4 steps, each with its own verified answer
• Childcare in Singapore for expats 3 steps, each with its own verified answer
• The last trimester in Singapore 3 steps, each with its own verified answer

Before any of it

• Singapore baby admin, in plain words 17 words you will meet, explained
• The deadlines that actually matter the 6 with a real consequence for missing them
• What it costs to have a baby in Singapore what the whole list comes to, new and second-hand
• What to buy for a baby in Singapore all 23 things, priced, and which are fine second-hand
• Childcare costs in Singapore for a foreign child what each route costs, and who pays for it

Get these dated from your own due date

Having the baby somewhere else?

• Netherlands
• France
• Hong Kong