Pointing Board for Delivery
Mother's Tree Japan is a non-profit organization that actively offers various services to support foreign women living in Japan from pregnancy through delivery to child-rearing.
Mother's Tree Japan offers a foreign woman who is to give birth in Japan a Pointing Board for Delivery. On this board are written phrases a woman in labor might want to say such as "I can't bear the pain" or "Please stay by my side” in Japanese and a foreign language. The woman can convey her wish to a doctor or a midwife just by pointing one of the phrases on the board. Available languages are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Burmese (Myanmarese), Bengali, Nepalese and Arabic. Please tap below. By clicking on the flag of each language on the linked Japanese page, the language will be displayed.