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Childbirth and childcare

When you get pregnant

Health promotion center (TEL: 621-5901)
Civil Division (TEL: 620-1621)
If you are pregnant and want to deliver in Japan, please submit a pregnancy report to the Civil Division or a city office branch. You will be issued a maternity passbook.

This maternity passbook is an important document that will record your pregnancy, delivery, and preventive inoculations and vaccinations your child receives for the first 7 years. Pregnant women bearing maternity passbooks can receive free health inspections including urine analysis, checks for anemia, syphilis, hepatitis type B, etc. three times during pregnancy at medical institutions designated by the city government. Almost all the hospitals for obstetrics and gynecology in Ibaraki City are available to passbook bearers for these purposes

Maternity passbooks in English, Portuguese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Spanish version are available at the Health Promotion Center. Please contact us if you need one of them.

Delivery expenses

National Health Insurance and Pension Division (TEL: 620-1631)
The expenses of a normal delivery are not covered by the Health Insurance program, because delivery of a baby is not an illness. However, a certain amount (between 200,000 to 300,000 yen) is paid to a mother as compensation for delivery expenses. In Japan, mothers generally enter a hospital for 4 or 5 days for deliveries. The cost of staying in the hospital will run from 200,000 to 300,000, depending on the hospital you enter. This amount will be paid to you from the Health Insurance fund after the birth. However, you have to settle your account with the hospital when you leave and before you receive these funds.

New baby's and mother’s health checks

Health Promotion Center (TEL: 621-5901)
The Ibaraki City government offers health checkups to pregnant women and babies living in the City. Within one year after the baby is born, please go to any of the medical institutes designated by the city government to give health checkups to new babies, and use the health check sheet attached as a separate page in your maternity passbook. The baby can also receive a 9 months to one year old health checkup (the older baby checkup) at an assigned medical institute. The medical checkup reception sheets will be mailed to you when the baby is 8 months old. For health checkups of your baby at 4 months, 1 year 8 months, 2 years 3 months (dental), and 3 years 6 months, invitation sheets will be mailed to mothers. If you do not receive these invitations, please let us know.

Other injections for diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, rubella, Japanese encephalitis, and tetanus can be given to your baby at a nearby hospital. The inoculation against polio can be obtained at the nearest elementary school, or health and medical center, and a preventive injection for BGC can be obtained at the health and medical center. These preventive injections are free if they are received at the specified age.