NO!!!! its about time la... you know people always say no need to hire so early... but it's important to hire 3-4 months ahead.
1. adjusting period. We are humans...so you and your maid need time to get use to each other. She need to understand your personality, your standard, your style, how you like things done. Also, you will need to know her too. 1 month is not enough to see the ' real' thing.
2. Training period. You really don't want to train your maid when you have a new born at home... during that time , you will be busy with a new bb and you are learning to become a mother +all the tension and pressure. you will not be a good trainer becuase you will lose patient easily or short tempered. Also, when you're " sitting month" , it's not good to get upset or angry... not good for your health ar.,
3. Trail period. If training failed or you find out you really don't like your maid, you still have time to find new one and not feel trapped. Imagine when you have a new BB+ bad maid,but cannot fire her! how terrible it will be!
Anyway, My experience was ...
I hired my maid 4 months before bb arrived...
1st month.... i got to know her and taught her
2nd month... I correct her, get upset with her, yelled at her.
3rd month... I almost fired her..m because she always forgot the things I taught
4th month.... bb arrived and everything seems to be okay
NOW.... 6 years later... I cannot live without her!!!
if you hire a maid much earlier, you must let her know that when baby comes, she will be very busy.
my friend hired a maid 3m earlier. however, before the baby comes, she found her lazy already and so fired her. although it's tough to wait for another maid (1m after the baby was born) but don't keep a bad maid.