Issuance of Maternal and Child Health Handbook

If you are diagnosed with pregnancy at a medical institution, please notify your Health and Welfare Center (Children and Families Support Division) of your pregnancy as soon as possible and receive a Maternal and Child Health Handbook.
The Maternal and Child Health Handbook is important to record the health status of mothers and children, such as the progress of pregnancy and the development and development of children after birth. Please keep it in a safe place.
In addition, we have also issued a spelling of medical examination tickets for pregnant women Health Checkups and baby/infant Health Checkups.

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

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

• Personal number notification card, copy of resident certificate with personal number, etc.
• Identity verification (PDF: 147KB)
• patient's card Shinryo-ken, a medical institution diagnosed with pregnancy

If the pregnant woman cannot come to the agency for unavoidable reasons, proxy/agent may also submit a notification. At that time, I would like to talk to proxy/agent about pregnant women. Also, at a later date, Children and Families Support Division staff may call the pregnant woman about health guidance, so be sure to respond accordingly.
Please note that what you need is different when proxy/agent submits a notification.

When a parental guardian, minor guardian, or adult guardian is coming to the agency, the following is required. In addition, please check the number of weeks of pregnancy or the expected date of childbirth before visiting.

• 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
• The right of representation can be confirmed
• proxy/agent's identity verification (PDF: 148KB)
• patient's card Shinryo-ken, a medical institution diagnosed with pregnancy

If a person other than legal representative (a pregnant woman's husband, partner, parent, etc.) is coming to the agency, the following is required: In addition, please check the number of weeks of pregnancy or the expected date of childbirth before visiting.

• 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
• Power of Attorney (PDF: 92KB)
• proxy/agent's identity verification (PDF: 148KB)
• patient's card Shinryo-ken, a medical institution diagnosed with pregnancy

Foreigners have a Maternal and Child Health Handbook in six languages (English, Chinese, Hangul, Spanish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese). If you need a Braille manual, please let us know.

• Pregnant woman Health Checkups expense assistance ticket
• Pregnant Women's Dental Health Examination Consultation Ticket
• Yokohama City Cervical Cancer health check-up Free Coupon
• Application for test of congenital metabolic abnormalities, etc.
• Maternity Health Checkups expense subsidy ticket
• Medical institution Check ups for Infants and Toddlers consultation ticket
• Newborn Hearing Test Aid

You do not need to return it when you move out.
Also, please note that, except for loss, it will not be issued newly to those who move in.
However, if you are moving in from outside the city, you will receive a medical examination ticket from Yokohama City and provide Vaccinations and other information, so please bring your Maternal and Child Health Handbook and a medical examination ticket issued by the local government before moving in and come to your ward Health and Welfare Center window.

Please come to the Health and Welfare Center window where you live. We will issue it on the spot, but we will not keep records 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 children up to elementary school students.

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 a.m.

We provide a variety of maternal and child health services to pregnant women in areas affected by the Disaster Relief Act, regardless of whether they have been transferred to resident certificatesurvivors. For details, please contact the evacuation destination Health and Welfare Center (Children and Families Support Division).