how old is she? is she willing to learn?? Any children of her own?? If so, you can try to send her to the local training school first to train her lor...
"忠心, 勤力, 唔識講大話, 聽教" <-- it's really good to have in a maid ar.... if she can learn, I think worth to keep her.
when my 2nd maid first came, her cantonese is quite poor (no english as she is Thai) + 唔識湊細路 & newborn... I sent her to local school (but even the trainer said her cantonese is very poor)... I just teach her the basic and observe (use webcam and also call home whenever it's time for newborn to have milk...) At first really have to check her often and be strict..... After 1.5 month... I am ok to let her take care of the newborn now (of course I won't let her make decision, she needs to get my persmission on everything)
She is ok with my 2-yr so far.. even she can't fully understand what he said.. and probably so does my 2-yr can't understand her fully.. but with a schedule, she manage it ok so far.
i just let her know Safety and cleaniness is most important. And keep reminding her on everything lor.
Afterall, when you resume to work, BB is already 2-3 months old... and you have already set a steady schedule... she just have to follow lor.
"唔識講大話" is really good.. my maid would 講大話.. but so far on minor things ... and everytime I will break her lies.
My maid is a hardworking one + she doesn't tell lies (as far as I know, she's only here for 2 months). However, she has no experience in taking care of small kids, she doesn't understand my daugther sometimes and she doesn't know how to take care of her......
can your 99 go over for a few hours daily ? I guess what you can do is to have webcam or call home more often.... honestly, I think even they are good in english / cantonese but they lie... 萬一BB有乜事... they won't even tell tim........ My first maid is good in taking care of new born and kids... but she put on some Thai unknown oil on my son's head when he hit on something (he was around 1 year old).... I didn't know that until I was home and smell it (she didn't mention that when I got home) She thinks she can handle mar coz' she thinks she has more 湊細路經驗 than me
So..........."忠心, 勤力, 唔識講大話, 聽教" is very important ar...