Hospital or hotel? Maternity wards woo parents with family suites, cocktail receptions, massages

Ms Maybeline Sim booked Thomson Medical’s family suite for her second birth so her husband and older son could bunk in the room’s double-decker bed. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF MAYBELINE SIM
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SINGAPORE – When Ms Maybeline Sim gave birth to her second child, Jared Aw Yong, in November 2023, her older son stayed over in the hospital too.

She booked Thomson Medical’s family suite, so Josiah and her husband, Mr James Aw Yong, could bunk in the room’s house-shaped double-decker bed.

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