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Baby Announcement~ BIG News! ~~ Mar 31, 2020

My goodness, so much has happened since my last post. Literally 4 days after my last blog entry, my life changed drastically.
It's now 8 months later and I would like to announce that I'm 8 months pregnant!

I doubt I have anymore readers ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ, but in the rare chance that I do, you may have already been aware of this news. 

It was September of 2019 when I came home from a long day of playing in Tokyo's famous electric town, Akihabara. I remember feeling strange but I can't really explain further the feeling that I felt. Something just didn't feel normal with my body. It was when I got to my neighborhood that I decided to drop in the pharmacy and buy a pregnancy test to take that night.
My menstrual cycle had been late by few days at that point and even though the test recommended waiting a bit longer, I was growing more and more impatient each day that passed.
So when I prepared the test, I tried to convince myself to wait to look at the test when it was fully complete and not to watch it. However, me not wanting to wait any longer, stared intently at the small screen. It was shortly after, that I learned I was pregnant.
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I took both of the tests inside the box.
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I was overjoyed and really didn't know what to do with myself. I kept taking photos of the positive test and I had to resist the urge to call all my family and friends. I also took an extra test to make sure. I knew that the first trimester was the most critical ( high rate of potential miscarriages) so I tried to remain calm. The next day I scheduled an appointment at the woman's clinic near my home and informed them of the news.





  • Fast forward to that appointment, the staff didn't seem all the impressed that I was pregnant, they gave me a ultrasound and showed me the baby. Thankfully there was a curtain separating me from the doctor and nurse because I started to tear up when I saw the tiny dot(my baby) on the screen. They scheduled my second appointment once I was done and they sent me home.



It was my second appointment when I learned the reason why the clinic staff wasn't impressed to learn about my pregnancy during my first appointment. Apparently the OBGYN staff doesn't become enthusiastic until they see the baby's heartbeat on the ultrasound and my first appointment was too early to see my babies heartbeat. I was only 5 weeks pregnant at that time. However the second appointment I was able to see my baby's heartbeat via a second ultrasound and after the heartbeat confirmation, I kept getting congratulated and huge smiles from the doctors and nurses. Everyone was so enthusiastic and warm, it really pumped me up!
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 Before I left, the doctor gave me homework. Apparently I needed to register my birth at my local ward office so I could receive a mother and child health booklet also known as the Boshi Kenko Techo (母子手帳 ).

Let me explain what that is with the help of Google:

"What is a Boshi Techo and why do I need one?
The Mother and Child Health Handbook, [Boshi Techo] is a small booklet that will chronicle your pregnancy, your well-being, the birth, the well-being of the child and the immunization record of the child up to and including the age of six. In short, a child older than six does not really need one anymore. The handbook comes with some coupons for free wellness checks for the pregnant woman and also for the child after it is born. Without the book, presumably the child can not get the immunizations for free. In this sense the handbook is mandatory. Upon entering primary school in Japan, the information in the Boshi Techo is transferred onto the child's student health card, at which point the Boshi Techo becomes an old record to be kept but never really used again."

You can click Here to find more information on the mother child health booklet.




I will continue this post with a part 2 later! I need to get some sleep. ~ Goodnight!

Wait!


Here's a random baby bump dump! ^ ^














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