Friday, January 29, 2010

Introducing Akari


My sister-in-law gave birth to a baby girl two weeks ago.

Japanese birthing centers are terrible! Both the mother and baby have to stay there for five or seven days after birth. The baby stays in a room with all the other babies and the mother stays in a tiny little room elsewhere. Every four hours the mother has to make her way to a feeding room where she is handed her baby. She only has twenty minutes to nurse the baby before the nurse comes back to return the infant to the baby room. Tweny minutes isn't enough....too bad! If Mom wants to see the baby outside of feeding time she has to do so through a glass window. No wonder there's so many weirdos in Japan.

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