Todays we have a special episode - I had the opportunity to interview Anne-Sophie Mpacko, who is a psychologist.   Anne-Sophie is originally from France, she came to Tokyo a few months ago for her PhD at University of Keio, she studies the health and welfare of children who's moms live abroad. Previously, she did her master thesis on Malian / West-Africa moms who raised their children in France. 

She shares her insights about the research regarding West-African moms abroad and their unique techniques, differences between western cultural and West-African tribes.

She is also recruiting participant for the PhD research: Moms that were raised in France with a Japanese husband who have a baby who is less than one year old. Renumeration will be 5,000 Yen. For more details check this short video: https://youtu.be/IfxZ5Jzaoiw or contact Anne-Sophie directly through email: [email protected].

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Today I had the pleasure to interview Japanese Mom Midori-San. She gives insights into a specific Japanese custom of giving birth.

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In today’s episode we get best insights from the sleep consultant and scientist Laura Gainche.

Laura is a geneticist and has a PhD in human sleep physiology.

She lives with her daughter and her husband, who is Japanese in Tokyo, since 2018, but has been living in Japan on and off for 12 years.

When her daughter was born she blended her scientific knowledge with her intuition and gradually developed her own sleep and parenting. She found out that her approach could be also helpful for other families. Since that time, she became passionate about helping families with a tailored sleep approach that includes so much more than just sleep. Founded Science for all women which focuses on sleep.

I am thrilled to present Lauras insights. Haven’t come access a scientist with so much knowledge and heart at the same time.

Definitely check her instagram account: #scienceforallwomen and her webpage: www.sciwom.org

Safe bedsharing and breastsleeping

https://cosleeping.nd.edu/safe-co-sleeping-guidelines/

https://www.llli.org/the-safe-sleep-seven/

https://www.instagram.com/the_cibb/

https://www.instagram.com/tt.en.tt/

Jennie, who is originally from the UK, gave birth to her beautiful daughter Aska last year in June. She chose the Showa University Hospital.

Today she shares her birth experience at the Showa University Hospital in Hatanodai, Shinagawa and also compares the Iryo Center in Meguro, where she gave birth to her first daughter.

Showa University Hospital in Hatanodai, Shinagawa:

https://www.showa-u.ac.jp/SUH/index.html

Yoga Glo App

https://www.glo.com/

City Pop:

https://music.apple.com/jp/playlist/best-of-city-pops/pl.16eb71c2454542c78f9b1a8d1b7843d1?l=en

I had the pleasure to interview the expert Brett Iimura. She is a Certified Childbirth Educator who not only teaches and consults with pregnant women and their families, but also teaches midwives in the art of interactive childbirth teaching.

Her webpage : https://www.birthinjapan.com/

After a long history of searching the right hospital for me, I was seeking for support. Brett helped me significantly during my hospital search in Tokyo and led my on the right path.

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In this todays episode Sarah from Canada will share her birth story. She gave birth to her son Raphael in the summer of 2020 at the Red Cross hospital / Nisseki, Tokyo.

Listen to her inspiring story how she went from wanting an epidural at the start of pregnancy to soon realizing she wanted to go without it, and was able to have a natural non-medicated birthLink to the hospital.

http://www.med.jrc.or.jp/en/tabid/393/Default.aspx

The osteopath that Sarah mentioned is Yoann Rocheteau speaks French and English.

http://osteopathetokyo.com/

Maternity Taxi ( note: there are different taxi companies for different wards in Tokyo):

https://www.km-taxi.tokyo/service/maternity.php

Womens clinic

http://ebine-womens-clinic.com/english

Hypnobirthing Annick Bourbonnais (IN FRENCH)

https://opaleo.com/

https://www.acuraclinic.com

Link to the blog post:

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First Hand information for moms-to-be in Japan from Stephanie Kawai.

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Link to the mentioned study:

https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-020-01048-9

Link video of hospital review:

http://bit.ly/pij-yt-hospitals

https://www.instagram.com/pregnantinjapan/

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Enjoy!

Link to instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/pregnantinjapan/

Link to the blog post:

https://www.pregnantinjapan.com/post/marie-s-birth-story-at-seijo-kinoshita-hospital-tokyo

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