House cleaning for new parents in Minneapolis
Swaddle is a three-person cleaning team. After the birth we come once a week for four weeks, text before we knock, and bring a fragrance-free kit.
The postpartum plan
One visit a week, the same person where we can. You do not have to be dressed, awake or downstairs.
The first visit starts with what you use most: counters and sink, both bathrooms, and the floors between them.
We dust and vacuum the bedroom and change the bed if you have set out clean linen. Laundry plans start the machine and fold what comes out.
By now the living room has become the baby's. We clear what we can and leave anything that looks like a system exactly where it is.
The last visit runs longest: baseboards, fridge shelves, cabinet fronts and what got skipped. Then we ask if you want a standing clean.
Plans
Three plans, one payment each. Every plan lists what it includes and what it does not.
One clean a week for your first month home: kitchen, bathrooms, floors and the rooms you are living in.
The same four weeks, longer visits, and the laundry that builds up folded and put on the bed.
One longer clean in the weeks before the due date, then the four weekly visits after the birth.
Each plan is quoted for a home up to 1,400 sq ft with two bathrooms; larger homes are priced at the walkthrough text, and you see the number in writing before you pay. You pay once, before the first visit. The plan ends after the fourth visit and does not renew, so there is no yearly cost. Move a visit by text up to 24 hours ahead at no charge; with less notice it is billed. If the baby comes early or late, text us and the four weeks start from the day you are home. Cancel before the first visit for a full refund; after it, unused visits are refunded at the per-visit price on your receipt. Extra time on the day is quoted by the hour when we are free to stay; we ask you first. A plan is a prepaid cleaning schedule, not an insurance or protection policy.
A quiet visit
You are tired and the baby may be asleep. Each visit starts with a text from Khadija, Elisa or Nhi about fifteen minutes before we arrive.
If it is a bad moment, tell us and we move the visit. Nobody minds, and the plan simply shifts.
We knock softly, or text from the step, and never ring the bell
Vacuum last, or not at all if the baby is down
Shoes off at the door from November to March, on a mat for the salt
A key left with us, or a door you open: either works
What we bring
We bring our own kit and use the fragrance-free version of every product on this list. The product names go in your first-visit text, so you can read each label yourself.
Counters, sink, stovetop and the outside of appliances.
For the sink and the dishes we wash to clean it. No fragrance added.
For counters, tables and sealed cabinet fronts. No fragrance added.
Appliance fronts get a damp cloth first, and a cleaner only if the cloth is not enough.
Toilets, sinks, tubs, showers, mirrors.
For tile, tubs and sinks. We rinse it off rather than leave it to dry on a surface. No fragrance added.
Used inside the bowl only, with the fan on. No fragrance added.
For mirrors and shower glass, wiped dry. No fragrance added.
Sealed wood, tile, vinyl and rugs.
Applied with a damp mop and a washed pad. No fragrance added.
Equipment, so there is nothing to certify. We empty it outside your home.
What touches the house and what we wash for you.
Washed at our shop between homes and kept to one home per load.
For the loads on the laundry plan, and for our own cloths. No fragrance added.
Fragrance-free means no fragrance was added to the product. It does not mean free of every ingredient someone could react to. Tell us what bothers you and we take it off your list.
Who comes to your door
Each visit starts with a text from whoever is coming, with their first name.
Owner
Books every first visit by text and takes the Friday cleans. Ask her anything about the plan.
Lead cleaner
Takes the Tuesday and Thursday visits and the laundry plans.
Cleaner
Takes the Monday and Wednesday visits and the cleans before a birth.
“Elisa texted from the driveway and had the kitchen and both bathrooms done while I fed the baby upstairs. I did not have to explain anything twice.”
“The towels came back folded in the order we use them. It sounds small, but I stopped thinking about the hamper.”
“I paid from two states away and got a text with the schedule. My daughter only had to leave a key.”
Sample reviews.
Where we clean
Visits are weekdays. We keep the list short so the same person can come every week.
We do not go past the I-494 and I-694 loop or across the St. Croix into Wisconsin: too far for a weekly visit. Ask anyway and we will say what we can.
No. Most parents are, since they cannot leave, but you do not have to be awake, dressed or downstairs. You can open the door, leave a lockbox code, or give us a key. Keys, codes and alarms are on the policies page.
On the date we set together once you have a due date. It moves if the baby comes early or late: text us and the four visits start from the day you are home.
We do not watch the baby, wash bottles or pump parts, move cribs or heavy furniture, or clean up mold, pests or anything biological. If a job is outside the list we say so before the first visit.
Yes. We bring a fragrance-free version of every product on the list, at every visit. The product names go in your first-visit text so you can check each label.
Yes. Text us your due date and we hold the four weeks around it. If you want one clean first, the before-the-birth visit is two to six weeks ahead.
Yes. A parent, a friend or a coworker can book and pay. We text the parents the schedule and the name of the person coming.
Start here
We text back within one business day with which weeks are open.