  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div class="life_title_box">        <div class="life_titie_box_top">        <!-- Image -->        </div>        <div class="midashi"> Multicultural Delivery５<br />Italian　woman<br />Multiplying barriers </div>        <div class="life_titie_box_bottom">        <!-- Image -->        </div>      </div>      <div id="article">                  <div id="article_left">                        <img src="/english/images/life/587_life_03.jpg" width="140" />              <div>MS fujiwara<br /><br />RASC<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rasc.jp">Researching and Supporting Multi-Cultural healthcare Services</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/english/archive/000360.html">MS fujiwara　Profile><a /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rasc.jp/pamphlets/english/english_all.pdf">Guide　for　new　mother　and newborn baby</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/english/archive/000493.html">From U.K<br /><br />~Recognition born in daily life~　</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.yokosojapan.net/english/archive/000513.html">In case　of　Chinese　woman</a> </div>                                                                      </div>                <div id="article_right">As I said before, delivery leads any woman to a complicated situation where there are anxiety and worry as well as joy.<br />Foreign women who will deliver in Japan are in a more difficult situation.<br /><br />An Italian woman said before,<br />“I have read many books on delivery written in Italian to learn about delivery in my own way.<br />However, it’s a burden on me to learn Japanese and about information in Japan as well as delivery･･,”<br />Most women start to learn about delivery and child care after they have realized that they are pregnant.<br />That’s because pregnant women need previous knowledge preparatory for change in the body and change in mood coming to them and for new experience.<br />Foreign women need knowledge about language, culture and habits, and the systems of hospitals and health insurance too.<br />However, the situation is that though they have more difficulties than Japanese women, they are supported less than Japanese women.<br /><br />There are a difference between expressions described in books on child care written in Japanese and those actually used by hospital workers.<br />For instance, though breast milk is described as bonyu in books on child care, the hospital workers often say to pregnant women, “Do you give a baby oppai?”<br />There are many peculiar expressions about delivery and child care.  This makes it much harder to learn knowledge about delivery and a method of child care.<br /><br />As you see, multiplying barriers which foreign women have to overcome make it more difficult for them to deliver in Japan.<br />I think lowering the barriers helps them deliver without anxiety in Japan.<br />When we support, it is important to do anything to the extent that individuals can do as well as material assistance and legislation.<br />Just communicating with them with great care, such as selecting expressions or ways of speaking in their position is enough to lower the barriers.<br />As is obvious, it’s important to do something deliberately.<br />I hope that we can create a society where all women can have safe delivery and child care without anxiety with the support or assistance of people in the community.<br /> </div>        <div class="both10"></div>      </div>    </div>  <!-- end of left_box -->  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline -->