Name: Why I LOVE Being PREGNANT in Japan & Unpack With me ? | VLOGMAS CHAPTER 2
Uploaded: 2022-10-14T18:00:22.000Z
Duration: 15 min 48 s
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I want you newborns are no joke, Women are sleep deprived.

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It's dangerous to be sleep deprived and America needs to learn from this.

Hey guys, okay, so for some reason when I use this mode on my camera, it freezes all the time.

Um and I can't find my charger for my my camera, so I'm going to be using this a lot.

Yogi went to work and so I'm just watching some clothes and I want to edit my first blog.

Just let you guys know these videos are probably not going to be every single day because we're unpacking and we're doing a lot of stuff.

Um if you guys don't mind messy edits, um that's probably what's going to have happened.

So I'm gonna be posting more often this month, which is great because we're already like moved in, settled in and I'm loving where we're living.

We're in Tokyo were not in chiba anymore.

But my plan today is I don't know how boring these videos are gonna plan today is to get this first video done in an hour and a half.

But I'm gonna try to get this video done really fast and then I'm gonna go maybe out and get some lunch and donuts.

Oh my God, my donut addiction is so bad now because craving sweets second trimester.

So I'm trying to slow down but um we live next to mr donuts which is a curse.

Anyway, the baby's really active right now.

And um yeah, we'll see how this video transpires but its dogmas day too.

Okay, so I ordered some Uber eats today because um I didn't want to go out yet, I wanted to finish this video, get it done, I ordered something from a really famous shop.

These are huge, they're like rice balls with like toppings and things like that.

I got a socket nao one which is sock giving salmon in japanese and I probably should have got it without because I'm not a big fan of mayo.

I don't know why I ordered it, but I got crab salad which is cucumber, like crab and some corn, so I'm probably one of these because this is huge.

But I ordered this and I want to eat this really quick and finish my video.

So that's what I'm having for lunch, like the best side of the camera around the front camera, this phone and I hope that you can hear me but I just wanted to kind of talk to you guys a little bit about how like amazing japan is when it comes to the services after your baby is born.

We went to the city hall, they told us to go to a separate building where they talk to where you're able to register your pregnancy because it's not really a registration but it's more about getting information about the city and the services and they also have like pediatrician at this place and everything it looks brand new.

This place is like just amazing compared to what we witnessed in chiba.

There's like so many different things going on.

There's classes, there's all sorts of thing which by the way, one of the things that bothers me a lot is that they don't have any first aid classes here which kind of blows my mind.

They have other classes like giving the baby a bath there cooking and things like that.

So I might just do some like you Tommy courses and stuff like that on newborn first aid and things like that.

They do have like first aid classes in the middle of Tokyo but I really don't want to travel all the way out there.

Other than that there are amazing services and this is the same for like most cities.

But I haven't really sat down and talked about it with you guys.

The best thing about like Japan services is that they they have a system where you can hire a sort of Doula.

I guess you could call it a Doula but this Doula or this service member comes to your home.

I think that you can pay for it and then you get money back later.

They basically come to your house every single day or every other day or whenever you want them to come.

They come to your home and they help with the cooking and the cleaning and the grocery shopping and they help you clean the baby, walk clean baby, wash the baby in the bathtub and give you some tips and pointers and things like that.

So you're never really alone because a lot of husbands work and have to go into Tokyo and the women are home alone and especially first time moms, they don't know what to do and so it's a lot of help and you can do that up until the baby is one year old, we're definitely taking advantage of the service because I'm blown away by the price of it.

The fact that there are english speakers that can come to your house and like to not have to clean and cook.

Another friend of mine said that this was the best service and she's so glad that Japan has this because she would have never been able to, you know, put the baby down for a second and like clean and cook and do all these things, it's super convenient and I'm so glad that they have that service.

Also the other great thing about Japan is that most hospitals and maternity clinics have a day service where you can go in there whenever you feel exhausted or you need a little help, you need a little sleep and rest, you can go to those maternity clinics or preferably your maternity clinic if they have this service, some don't, you have to go to a different hospital but so basically go to the hospital and the midwives help you take care of the baby while you sleep.

It's kind of like a hotel service so it's like 6000 yen to stay overnight which is a little less than $60 in U.

I don't know the exchange rate right now but I think it's much less than that and the day services like 2000 yen or like 3000 yen or something like that, like 20 bucks for the day so you can get some sleep and rest because newborns are no joke women are sleep deprived, it's dangerous to be sleep deprived and America needs to learn from this.

You get a gift money, you get like $1000 worth of baby stuff, it's just amazing with all the stuff that you get when you give birth and it makes me want to text In Japan much longer than I wanted to so we can have a second baby because we both want to kids but I feel a lot less alone.

I think the city kind of comes, it really takes a village to raise a child in Japan so much cheaper here, it's literally like you get coupons to go to the doctor.

Some of my friends are talking about copays and like we don't have that in Japan, they give us coupons and it's like 5000 yen towards your visit.

It can range from $2 to what like $50 for the appointment and then the whole birth itself, the government reimburses you.

So it's probably going to be about 809 $100 ish depending on where you're living and you know the city and the maternity clinic and all that stuff.

It's just, and the support is just astronomical.

I'm so excited to give birth here and this pregnancy has been stressful at times, but I'm actually really enjoying being pregnant.

I love looking at my belly in the mirror, I love feeling my baby's kick.

Like I love going through this process even though it's hard and unpredictable, but it's been a journey and it's been a very good one.

Um despite the little hiccup in the hospital, you know, I'm getting through it.

It could be less than that baby could come a little bit early.

Hopefully the baby will go full term, but you never know, we have our first appointment with our new clinic this weekend.

So hopefully that'll go really well because my last clinic wasn't the best.

And then my doula actually hired a doula from, she's from the U.

But she lives here and I think she has three kids.

She lives like two stops away from me now so like she can come pretty quickly if I were to go into labor.

We got all of our appointments out of the way.

The only things that's left is to really just prepare for the baby and set up our apartment nicely organize things.

But you know it's hard because we have to get it all done within like three months if you would like to donate to the virtual baby shower which we will be having in february.

Thank you to those who have already donated if you are amazing.

Um I wasn't expecting the amount of donations but it does help so much to get the stuff that's needed for the baby.

We can use some of our own money to like really make baby proof this apartment and things like that.

Of course family and friends are sending gifts and like all of that stuff.

So you will be properly thanked in the video, I promise and the gender reveal is going to be around christmas time.

Hopefully this month or after new year because I know everybody's very busy.

So we'll be posting our gender reveal very soon.

We didn't find out until like a week ago.

So past videos that I uploaded were like way before we learned the gender.

I didn't even know the gender in the hospital when I was there.

So I'm going to add this video and I'm probably gonna get some donuts.