wellway
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Post by wellway on May 9, 2018 16:30:33 GMT
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~Susan~
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You need to check your boobs, mine tried to kill me!!!
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Post by ~Susan~ on May 9, 2018 17:22:38 GMT
Oh wow! Looks like a high end restaurant!
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 9, 2018 17:32:55 GMT
Hospital food in Japan based on my experience is usually *excellent* and that is based on 3 weeks of combined hospital staying. Both had very similar food and it was so much better than anything you could get in North America hands down. Some of the fish I didn't like at all but the other stuff was always good.
There is serious competition in Japan for ob-gyns to deliver babies as there is a decreasing birth rate. Doctors have their own hospitals attached to their houses and they can bring in anesthetists to do c-sections if need be. These ob hospitals are like fancy hotels with every bit of pampering possible. Now that said the food at these hospitals is generally amazing. There was one in town where I lived where the food was notably better than others. They go all out and beyond to make your post-birthing experience wonderful and to encourage you to come back and have more babies delivered by that doctor. (Epidurals were unheard of when I was there for childbirth for pain control. I had one to get my appendix out which is the norm. Things might be different now. I don't know. I don't know what they do for a c-section.)
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 17:46:38 GMT
Epidurals were unheard of when I was there for childbirth for pain control. I'd gladly take a pass on great food for an epidural! |
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 9, 2018 18:10:32 GMT
Epidurals were unheard of when I was there for childbirth for pain control. I'd gladly take a pass on great food for an epidural! Things might be different now, though. The food I imagine will have stayed the same. I don't know if they do epidurals or not but none of my friends had them (on demand instead of c-sections) so I really don't know. Tokyo might be a little more civilized than where I lived (even though it was a big city). They also don't believe in using narcotics for pain relief. When I had my appendix out I had my own T3s to take because they gave me nothing and said there was nothing they would give me. That was odd I thought. Twelve hours after surgery your abdomen hurts with no pain relief and a incision. I am glad I did that. |
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chendra
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Post by chendra on May 10, 2018 4:35:24 GMT
Birth celebration meal! Fun!  |
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 10, 2018 4:43:11 GMT
Birth celebration meal! Fun!  Regular delivery you get a week. You need that week to a. recover and b. you have to go home to doing all the work because your husband will not lift a finger when it comes to anything domestic or the kid(s). Your husband earns the money and he breathes at home. That's all he does. If you choose to work which women do after children (sometimes but rarely), you will work your 10 hour day come home to the kid and your husband and have to do everything after a full day at work, too. That week in the hospital for your delivery is pretty awesome! |
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 10, 2018 4:46:45 GMT
Younger men may be better. My husband was pretty good most of the time. My friends' husbands smoked. That's what they did when they got home. They smoked. Sitting around the TV not talking, not anything but smoking. It was kind of funny but my BFF's husband drank beer and smoked in front of the TV every single night. He never carried a package for her or held the door for her or picked up a child or changed a diaper. I liked her husband a lot because of some things he said to me. I was expecting to hate him and think he was a cave dweller but he was absolutely the nicest guy going. But for his wife he did nothing! Meiko earned her week in the hospital, too! She had 2 kids so got 2 weeks peace.
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Post by katlady on May 10, 2018 4:48:58 GMT
Birth celebration meal! Fun! Regular delivery you get a week. You need that week to a. recover and b. you have to go home to doing all the work because your husband will not lift a finger when it comes to anything domestic or the kid(s). Your husband earns the money and he breathes at home. That's all he does. If you choose to work which women do after children (sometimes but rarely), you will work your 10 hour day come home to the kid and your husband and have to do everything after a full day at work, too. That week in the hospital for your delivery is pretty awesome! , I thought new mothers were pampered in Japan? I had a girlfriend who had to stay home, and practically in bed, for about a month after the birth of her child. Her mother and mother-in-law would not let her out of the house! She said it was nice, but a little too much! LOL! |
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 10, 2018 5:07:02 GMT
At home if you can go to your parents' house, you do. You go for 40 days I think. No one I know talks about it. I don't know anyone who actually did it either. None of my friends went home. Apparently you are not to bathe only shower and not use a/c because you could catch a cold that way. I have asked and didn't know anyone who actually did this. Did the person you knew live with MIL and FIL? That is very common for a first son to live with his wife and parents and she takes care of them.
There is a word for going home to give birth which is satogaeri shussan which means home to my village/town for childbirth. I want to ask my friends who might have done this because I don't know anyone my age who did.
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 10, 2018 5:16:10 GMT
I want to say it's all institutional food in general is so much better than ours is. Daycares, public schools, private school cafeterias, work lunch/dinner rooms where food is cooked on demand for you, prisons even have excellent food. When I say excellent I mean enough to sustain yourself until the next meal at noon if you ate at 8 am. Then enough to sustain you until 6 pm when dinner is served. The quality is always excellent. I want to a really low ranking high public high school and we had a lunchroom with a dirty cement floor. I mean it was rustic to say the least. The food was excellent. Not somedays but all days. I could go to any elementary school and the food would be equally good. I asked if say milk was cold enough and my friend's daughter said it's a bit too cold. She said she likes cold milk but not quite that cold. Interesting to say the least! I ate lunch at a private daycare in town where I worked and the food! OMG it was so good. The two hospitals I ate at were very, very good. I had lunch in hospital cafeterias, too and it was good there as well!
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Post by katlady on May 10, 2018 5:22:26 GMT
Delta Dawn, no the parents did not live with them, but the MIL did come to stay with them for a short time after the birth.
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 10, 2018 5:35:07 GMT
Delta Dawn , no the parents did not live with them, but the MIL did come to stay with them for a short time after the birth. If I had given birth there MIL would have come to stay with us too I am sure. I mean she was over every week anyway. She also did daycare for me 2 days a week when I took DS over to their house. I don't know what the norm is now. My friend who is very traditional and grew up in the countryside I would have thought went home but I don't think she did. Her mother and father are rose farmers and are very busy all the time. They couldn't look after her. Her inlaws live in Hiroshima so that's several stops away on the Shinkansen (Bullet Train). She did not give birth there. My cousin gave birth at the local Ob-gyn across the street (literally across the crosswalk). She had already moved in with her DH's parents as he was the oldest son and she had to take care of them. She didn't go home to have the baby though did she? I think she just went back to her husband's parents' house instead. She and i were very close a while ago. She works way harder than she needs to and she has to prove that she can do anything. She will wear herself out by at 60. She hasn't been on a vacation since her honeymoon in Hawaii and she ran the Hononlulu Marathon that week, too. She does not rest. I don't know anyone else who had a baby who went home for it. |
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