Preparation for childbirth (procedure and support)

・Parents' classroom

・We are carrying out the “Kohoku / Ninshin / Relief” campaign.

・Consultations regarding pregnancy and childbirth will be handled by the Maternal and Child Health Coordinator. Please feel free to contact us.
　 045-540-3618, Health and Welfare Center Children and Families Support Division, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama

・Pre- and post-natal helper dispatch business
　For households that need to reduce the burden of housework and childcare, we will send helpers from a contractor commissioned by Yokohama City.

・Postpartum maternal and child care business (visit type)
　Midwives will visit your home and provide specific consultation on breastfeeding methods and childcare.

・Postpartum maternal and child care business (short stay day care)
　At midwives and medical institutions in the city, we provide services such as postpartum maternal management, nursing methods, and childcare consultation.
　※There are conditions for use. If you wish, please check the details and contact us below.　
　 045-540-2365, Children and Families Support Division Health and Welfare Center, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama

Children's deposit

・Temporary custody services for infants
・24-hour emergency temporary childcare
　If you need urgent childcare due to illness or employment of a parent, you can temporarily leave a preschool child from the age of 6 months.
・Yokohama City Child Care Support System
　It is a system in which citizens register as members, and members leave and keep their children.

・birth registration form (within 14 days including the date of birth)

・Subsidies for Medical Expenses for Pediatric Treatment

・Child Allowance

About birth contact form
　In Yokohama, for the first time babies and their mothers, for the purpose of various consultations on childcare and promotion of mother's mother.
　We provide guidance on maternal and child visits (free of charge).
　Please let me know in the postcard attached to the mother and child handbook.

・Home visits by midwives and public health nurses

・Hello baby visit

　・Children's Vaccinations

・For information on referrals to pregnant women Health Checkups, please consult with your family doctor or the medical institution that has confirmed your pregnancy.

・Pregnant women's Health Checkups Expense Subsidy Ticket is not available
　 Pregnant women's Health Checkups auxiliary ticket cannot be used at medical institutions that do not have a contract with Yokohama City.
　 If you do not use the auxiliary ticket at the time of the maternity checkup, be sure to receive the receipt and keep the receipt and the auxiliary ticket you did not use.

・About Maternity Health Checkups
　 From 2018, even contracted medical institutions outside the city that have contracted can use the auxiliary ticket for maternity checkups after childbirth.
　 ※Medical institutions for Health Checkups Pregnant Women and Health Checkups are not the same.

・About newborn hearing test
　This is a screening (selection) test performed during hospitalization after childbirth to detect hearing abnormalities.
　Public expenses will be started for a part of the cost of the newborn hearing test.

・About medical institution baby/infant Health Checkups
　You can consult three times by 12 months (less than 13 months) after birth.
　Medical institutions in the city can be consulted only at Check ups for Infants and Toddlers conducting medical institutions.

・About child Vaccinations
　When you are vaccinated at a medical institution outside the city