Everything a new parent in Singapore actually needs to know.

Mother and Baby Singapore is a parenting guide for first-time parents raising a child here, covering pregnancy through preschool. We follow the same stretch every new family does: the pregnancy months, the newborn weeks, infancy, the toddler years, preschool, and the gear you buy along the way.

Written for Singapore means the rules that actually apply to you. Birth registration goes through the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA). Vaccinations follow the National Childhood Immunisation Schedule (NCIS) from the Health Promotion Board (HPB). Preschools and infant care are licensed by the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA). Car seat law comes from the Land Transport Authority (LTA), not from a shop. Once school starts, the Ministry of Education (MOE) reaches you through Parents Gateway (PG). A guide written for another country will not tell you any of that.

Our guides answer the question first, then give the Singapore specifics, then say what to do next. Where a cost, a wait or a trade-off is real, we say so and stamp the month we checked.

Every guide carries a byline and the date it was last updated. Wei Chun writes and edits the site, and also runs My Miracle Baby, a companion site about raising a child with additional needs.

We earn trust by doing the legwork, not by telling stories. We read the scheme rules, compare the real options, and check figures against the agency that sets them. Where something cannot be verified, we leave it out.

Health guides cite HealthHub and the Ministry of Health (MOH), assert nothing clinical on our own authority, and say when to stop reading and see a doctor. If anything here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it.