$19,000: How much it costs to give birth in style in Spore
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:00 pm
The New Paper
By Cheow Sue-Ann
SINGAPORE - $19,000.
That's how much it can cost to give birth in style in Singapore.
Forget your ordinary hospital treatment, this three-day package includes perks like private nurse service, an in-room mini bar, herbal chicken soup for the mother, a celebratory intimate dinner for the parents, a complimentary head massage and even a limousine service to chauffeur the family home.
Think that sounds luxurious?
The Tanglin Suite package at Gleneagles Hospital also includes a celebratory cocktail party for 10.
The New Paper on Sunday checked out birthing options here after news broke that Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, will deliver her child at St Mary's Hospital in London - famously swish and also, as it happens, the hospital where the Duchess' husband Prince William was born.
The private maternity wing of this hospital requires a deposit of £6,800 or about S$13,000, just to book.
According to ABC News, the brochure from St Mary's stated that the suite comes with a comprehensive wine list.
But you don't have to be royalty to receive such royal treatment.
Gleneagles' Tanglin Suite package keeps the pampering going even after mothers leave the hospital.
Personalised attention will be paid to your every parenting need, including how to manage breastfeeding, exercises to get your lower body back into shape and even classes on how to care for your baby.
This package costs between $15,000 and $19,700, depending on whether the mother has a caesarean section or not. Gynaecologists say there is plenty of demand for luxury births......
http://yourhealth.asiaone.com/content/1 ... -singapore
By Cheow Sue-Ann
SINGAPORE - $19,000.
That's how much it can cost to give birth in style in Singapore.
Forget your ordinary hospital treatment, this three-day package includes perks like private nurse service, an in-room mini bar, herbal chicken soup for the mother, a celebratory intimate dinner for the parents, a complimentary head massage and even a limousine service to chauffeur the family home.
Think that sounds luxurious?
The Tanglin Suite package at Gleneagles Hospital also includes a celebratory cocktail party for 10.
The New Paper on Sunday checked out birthing options here after news broke that Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, will deliver her child at St Mary's Hospital in London - famously swish and also, as it happens, the hospital where the Duchess' husband Prince William was born.
The private maternity wing of this hospital requires a deposit of £6,800 or about S$13,000, just to book.
According to ABC News, the brochure from St Mary's stated that the suite comes with a comprehensive wine list.
But you don't have to be royalty to receive such royal treatment.
Gleneagles' Tanglin Suite package keeps the pampering going even after mothers leave the hospital.
Personalised attention will be paid to your every parenting need, including how to manage breastfeeding, exercises to get your lower body back into shape and even classes on how to care for your baby.
This package costs between $15,000 and $19,700, depending on whether the mother has a caesarean section or not. Gynaecologists say there is plenty of demand for luxury births......
http://yourhealth.asiaone.com/content/1 ... -singapore