In this episode we speak with Hikari who is Japanese with an English husband.  She talks about the pressures that she felt within her own culture around pregnancy + body image and the relief she felt being able to speak to her foreigner friends about it.

Birth facility:

+ Aiiku Hospital, Tokyo

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Show notes:

Questions around being able to conceive, happy pregnancy, morning sickness, conscious of weight gain, body image, epidural,  C-section, blood loss, breastfeeding issues, super tired post-birth, weight gain articles - CNN Japan , Tokyo Pregnancy Group

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Opening

00:49  - Intro

01:26 - Journey to pregnancy

04:50 - Pregnancy

09:14 - Birth story

15:43 - Postpartum recovery

22:03 - Cost

22:58 - Bottle time

25:44 - Outro