In order to help foreign pregnant women correctly understand the information necessary for childbirth and childcare, an international exchange organization in Yokohama City has created a sheet that can explain this information in simple Japanese and foreign languages, and publishes it on its website.
The sheet was created by the Kanagawa International Foundation in Yokohama City.
When pregnant women report their pregnancy to the local government and receive the Maternal and Child Health Handbook, etc., they receive explanations about necessary information and procedures related to childbirth and childcare from public health nurses and nurses.
However, some people in charge of local governments have problems such as not being able to explain well to foreign pregnant women and their families due to differences in language and customs.
For this reason, in addition to easy Japanese, the organization has created a sheet to explain these contents in five languages, including English, Vietnamese, and Nepali, and has been publishing them on its website from this month.
The necessary information from notification of pregnancy to after childbirth is posted in chronological order
▽ The hospital where you will give birth must make an appointment by about the 15th week of pregnancy, ▽ It is necessary to have regular prenatal checkups, and even if you use a subsidy ticket, it costs 1 yen to 3000 yen per time,
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It includes the requirement to register the birth within 5000 days of delivery.
There is also a video explaining how to use the sheet, and Kumiko Fukuda of the Kanagawa International Foundation said, "The issuance of the Maternal and Child Health Handbook is an important opportunity for pregnant women to build a relationship of trust with local governments, so I hope that it will be useful to many local governments."