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
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