Issuance of Mother and Child Health Handbook

If you are diagnosed with pregnancy at a medical institution, please report your pregnancy to your ward Health and Welfare Center (Children and Families Support Division) as soon as possible and receive a Maternal and Child Health Handbook.
The Maternal and Child Health Handbook is important for keeping track of the mother and child's health, such as the course of pregnancy and the development and development of children after birth. Please keep it in a safe place.
We also issue a spelling of medical examination tickets for pregnant women Health Checkups and medical institution baby/infant Health Checkups.

1. Please fill in the pregnancy registration form at the Health and Welfare Center (Children and Families Support Division) window where you live.
2. I will give you a mother and child health handbook.
3. After explaining how to use the Maternal and Child Health Handbook and medical examination tickets, public health nurses and midwives will talk.

• Personal number card
• patient's card Shinryo-ken, a medical institution that has been diagnosed with pregnancy

• Personal number notification card, copy of resident certificate with personal number, etc.
• Items that can be verified (PDF: 147KB)
• patient's card Shinryo-ken, a medical institution that has been diagnosed with pregnancy

If the pregnant woman cannot come to the agency for unavoidable reasons, proxy/agent can also submit a notification. I'd like to tell proxy/agent about your pregnant woman. Also, Children and Families Support Division staff may call the pregnant woman again at a later date regarding health guidance.
Please note that the required items are different when proxy/agent submits a notification.

When parental guardian, minor guardian, adult guardian, adult guardian is coming to the agency, the following is required.

• A copy of the pregnant woman's personal number (personal number card, personal number notification card, copy of resident certificate with personal number, etc.) or a copy of it
• Those whose right of proxy can be confirmed
• Identification of proxy/agent (PDF: 148KB)

If a person other than legal representative (a pregnant woman's husband, partner, parent, etc.) is coming to the agency, the following is required.

• A copy of the pregnant woman's personal number (personal number card, personal number notification card, copy of resident certificate with personal number, etc.) or a copy of it
• Power of Attorney (PDF: 92KB)
• Identification of proxy/agent (PDF: 148KB)

Foreigners have a maternal and child health handbook in six languages (English, Chinese, Hangul, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese). If you need a Braille commentary, please let us know.

• Pregnant women's Health Checkups expense subsidy ticket
• Pregnant women's dental health checkup consultation ticket
• Yokohama City Cervical Cancer health check-up Free Coupon
• Application form for testing of congenital metabolic abnormalities
• Maternity Health Checkups expense subsidy ticket
• Medical institution Check ups for Infants and Toddlers Consultation Ticket
• Newborn hearing test fee subsidy ticket

You do not need to return it when you move out.
In addition, please note that there will be no new issue to those who move in, except for loss.
However, for those who are transferred from outside the city, we will give you a medical examination ticket of Yokohama City and provide information on Vaccinations and other information, so please bring your mother and child health handbook and a medical examination ticket issued by the localHealth and Welfare Center window where you live.

Please come to the Health and Welfare Center window where you live. It will be issued on the spot, but there will be no record of medical examinations and Vaccinations, so please be careful not to lose it as much as possible.
In addition, please note that medical examination tickets handed together with the Maternal and Child Health Handbook cannot be reissued.
※Reissue is limited to those who are up to elementary school.

For inquiries regarding the procedure for issuing the Maternal and Child Health Handbook, please contact your ward office below.

Reception hours

• Weekday

From 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• 2nd and 4th Saturday

From 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 am

We provide various maternal and child health services to pregnant women in areas subject to the Disaster Relief Act, regardless of whether they have been transferred to resident certificate, regardless of whether they have been transferred to the survivors. For details on handling, please contact the evacuation destination Health and Welfare Center (Children and Families Support Division).