Now I can not doubt that God is really amazing and almighty.
I've found a nice gynecologist in a hospital which is not far from my house.
Here is all the detail of my "gynecologist searching".
At first, my old friend, who is a Japanese and also pregnant, gave us a biggest women's information exchange web site in Japan and many other useful information of good gynecological hospitals.
I am surprised that Ichikawa City (my city) only has ONE university hospital which has gynecological department.
My husband M and I went to the hospital in the morning on Wednesday.
It was a rainy day, we arrived before 9 am, and there already was full of people.
We spent more than half hour wait for the card of the hospital since it was my first time to come to the hospital.
Then when we went to the reception of the gynecological department, the staff there were a little bite unfriendly.
Especially when she found I am a foreigner who can only speak very little Japanese, she showed hesitate and asked M to come with me EVERY TIME or to find a Japanese speaker to come with me because it will be difficult to communicate with me if I can't understand a lot of Japanese....
We thought there must be more staffs and doctors who can speak English in the university hospital...but it seems we were wrong.
Then when we found there already be too many people, and we needed to wait till 2pm to see the doctor...we gave up....(the staff there showed released...)
M was a little bite upset and I felt worried then.
I could understand they already have had too many patients and they don't want more trouble...
I felt the situation of pregnant women in Ichikawa is really difficult.
But if we go to other city or Tokyo, will the situation be better?
We thought about going back to Taiwan to have my baby born.
Then we went to the city hall of Ichikawa City and asked for helping us finding a gynecological hospital which ACCEPT foreigner patients.
They recommend Yamaguchi Hospital in Nishi-Funabashi City.
We went to the hospital in the afternoon right after lunch in the same day.
The staff there were much more friendly and the process of registration, checking and payment is quite efficient with user-friendly high tech.
I got a number after registration, and there are many monitors in all the waiting rooms.
The patient will have some checks before seeing doctor, like ultrasonic scan.
As long as they ask patient take check, they will broadcast and show the number on the monitor.
We can take easy to wait for our turn to do everything though it still spend quite a period of time.
There is a play room with a lot of toys for kids and if I come alone, I can ask the staff in the play room babysit Ka-chan.
What surprised me the most is, my doctor is a TAIWANESE.
He has changed his name into a Japanese name, Emoto.
When I talked to M in Mandarin, he suddenly reacted me in Mandarin too.
I was shocked, I thought he is a Japanese who is good at Mandarin.
But he said he is from Taiwan and also graduated from National Taiwan University (just like me), 36 years ago.
I was very very grateful to God, first he gave me a good Japanese friend from 12 years ago, and now he gave me a doctor from Taiwan.
Isn't it amazing?
:)
I think I can take easy to have my baby born in Japan.
5/24/2010
Living in Japan- start
The first 6 years in our marriage, we lived in Taiwan.
Two years ago, we moved to Barcelona, Spain, for my husband to study an MBA degree in ESADE business school.
After graduating, we decided to move to Japan for my husband's job searching.
I am pregnant for around four monthes when we come to Japan.
Right now, we live in his mom's house in Ichikawa City, 30 minutes by metro away from Tokyo.
The house was empty for more than two years, because my mother-in-law has moved to Osaka to live close to her family.
In the first two weeks, we were quite busy buying everything, including all the electronic equipments, repairing the house, settling down and applying for my spouse visa.
Amazingly, I got my spouse visa in ONE WEEK.
We heard it takes at least one month, or even three months.
We called oversea to the Immigration Bureau several times, they said if I have some special reasons, like pregnancy and with young kid to take care of, they will fast up my procedure.
It means I can have heath insurance now.
My husband and I met in the US 12 years ago, I made some Japanese girls friends then too.
I tried to contact my roommate (then) to ask for information about doctor, antenatal checks, etc.
It is said she has a kid and also is pregnant now.
Fortunately, she is as kind as before, she told me many useful information.
B--u--t, I found a cruel fact that there are very few gynecologists in my city.
You need to reserve a hospital for bearing baby right when you found you are pregnant.
I found a bigger hospital and a personal clinic.
Both are in around half hour walking distance.
I will check them out very soon.
Whether in Tokyo is unbelievable unstable when we arrived (April, 2010), cold in the raining day and hot in the sunny day.
There is HUGE temperature difference between the first day and the next.
The first several days when we arrived, it was very cold.
Normally it should be very warm, even hot in this period of time.
My husband M doesn't prepare enough warm clothes for the cold weather. Poor M.
I am not so familiar to the "Normalities" of Japan, so I bring enough clothes for my little boy and I.
And the good news is we have several sunny days right now, and the temperature is quite hot like summer (higher than 25 degree C).
The house we are living in is a more than 30 years wood house and has emptied for more than two years .
The few remain equipments are mostly broken.
In the first week, we only have hot water in the kitchen, not in the bathroom.
So we need to carry hot water from kitchen to bathroom to wash our body.
Although we have hot water in the kitchen, but we can not use the stoker to cook....
My mother in law asked a company come to check and quote how much it costs to repair the hot water system.
They said the system is totally broken and the old system was complicated, It cost more than 2000 euros to change the whole system.
I were not sure how long we will live here, so we really don\t know if it worth to repair it.
However, my mother in law decided to pay for the repairing.
Lucky us, the Japanese work really efficiently.
They spent only one day to complete the difficult construction (I could find its really a tough work when they were doing it).
Now we can take hot bath and cook again.
Japanese love to take hot bath and they also want to save water.
So the hot water system is quite unique.
It can keep the hot water in the bath tube to the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) as long as you want.
The system can also keep the hot water in the shower the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) too.
Then you dont need to adjust the warm water with hot water and cold water.
I love this system when I came to visit M's family.
But I didnt know the system costs so much....
No wonder I can hardy find the same system in other country.
Two years ago, we moved to Barcelona, Spain, for my husband to study an MBA degree in ESADE business school.
After graduating, we decided to move to Japan for my husband's job searching.
I am pregnant for around four monthes when we come to Japan.
Right now, we live in his mom's house in Ichikawa City, 30 minutes by metro away from Tokyo.
The house was empty for more than two years, because my mother-in-law has moved to Osaka to live close to her family.
In the first two weeks, we were quite busy buying everything, including all the electronic equipments, repairing the house, settling down and applying for my spouse visa.
Amazingly, I got my spouse visa in ONE WEEK.
We heard it takes at least one month, or even three months.
We called oversea to the Immigration Bureau several times, they said if I have some special reasons, like pregnancy and with young kid to take care of, they will fast up my procedure.
It means I can have heath insurance now.
My husband and I met in the US 12 years ago, I made some Japanese girls friends then too.
I tried to contact my roommate (then) to ask for information about doctor, antenatal checks, etc.
It is said she has a kid and also is pregnant now.
Fortunately, she is as kind as before, she told me many useful information.
B--u--t, I found a cruel fact that there are very few gynecologists in my city.
You need to reserve a hospital for bearing baby right when you found you are pregnant.
I found a bigger hospital and a personal clinic.
Both are in around half hour walking distance.
I will check them out very soon.
Whether in Tokyo is unbelievable unstable when we arrived (April, 2010), cold in the raining day and hot in the sunny day.
There is HUGE temperature difference between the first day and the next.
The first several days when we arrived, it was very cold.
Normally it should be very warm, even hot in this period of time.
My husband M doesn't prepare enough warm clothes for the cold weather. Poor M.
I am not so familiar to the "Normalities" of Japan, so I bring enough clothes for my little boy and I.
And the good news is we have several sunny days right now, and the temperature is quite hot like summer (higher than 25 degree C).
The house we are living in is a more than 30 years wood house and has emptied for more than two years .
The few remain equipments are mostly broken.
In the first week, we only have hot water in the kitchen, not in the bathroom.
So we need to carry hot water from kitchen to bathroom to wash our body.
Although we have hot water in the kitchen, but we can not use the stoker to cook....
My mother in law asked a company come to check and quote how much it costs to repair the hot water system.
They said the system is totally broken and the old system was complicated, It cost more than 2000 euros to change the whole system.
I were not sure how long we will live here, so we really don\t know if it worth to repair it.
However, my mother in law decided to pay for the repairing.
Lucky us, the Japanese work really efficiently.
They spent only one day to complete the difficult construction (I could find its really a tough work when they were doing it).
Now we can take hot bath and cook again.
Japanese love to take hot bath and they also want to save water.
So the hot water system is quite unique.
It can keep the hot water in the bath tube to the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) as long as you want.
The system can also keep the hot water in the shower the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) too.
Then you dont need to adjust the warm water with hot water and cold water.
I love this system when I came to visit M's family.
But I didnt know the system costs so much....
No wonder I can hardy find the same system in other country.
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