If you have no interest in birth, etc. then you have no reason to read further! This is for those women looking for a bilingual template to help with their birth plan.
Last weekend I read everything possible trying to figure out what kind of birth I would like to have. Then my Japanese teacher and I worked hard to translate my requests/questions into Japanese so I could ask the doctor and then formulate them into a birth plan.
I am posting them here hoping to save any woman in Japan who is trying to do the same thing some time and energy. Of course not everyone will have the same wishes for their labor/delivery as I do, but at least you can see some of the basic vocabulary, etc. and I hope it will help!
Congratulations to you if you’re expecting! Please leave me a comment if you were able to use it and/or if you have any questions about anything here! (more…)
whew – i knew having a baby was going to be tough, but i thought the 2nd trimester was when you could relax and enjoy it a bit!?! no such luck.
a lady who recently gave birth and lives near me just told me her story: she goes to the clinic at 3 weeks before her due date only to have the doctor exclaim, “the baby’s breech – you’ll need a c-section, but you’ve gained too much weight for us to do it here!”. so she had to go and find a bigger hospital/clinic that was somehow more prepared for the extra complications a cesarean on an obese woman might propose. THREE WEEKS BEFORE BIRTH. you think he could have told her when she weighed in over whatever the limit was for them to handle the birth should there be complications there!
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i was having a dilemma with a colleague and struggling with how to handle it in the most professional & mature manner. i flop onto the couch next to Isseki, “i’m having a dilemma. i just don’t know how to be the bigger person…” to which he sympathetically replied, “just accept it.”
“accept what?”
“you’re pregnant!”
i guess that does make me the “bigger person”! haha. that’s what i get for whining about my expanding body so much lately.
