Booking Your Delivery & Prenatal Checkups

Rooming-in and breastfeeding support

For patients in a private room who wish for it, rooming-in with your baby is available. A short set of guidelines applies, for your baby's safety.

A companion at delivery

One adult companion may attend the delivery itself or accompany you in the pre-delivery room. Please complete a visitor record card and collect a 24-hour visiting permit at general reception.

A companion may need to be paused at short notice if infection-control measures are in effect.

Booking your delivery

A delivery booking requires that a fetal heartbeat has already been confirmed by ultrasound at a medical institution, with an estimated due date established. If your heartbeat has not yet been confirmed and you would like a pregnancy test here, please visit our gynecology outpatient clinic at the outpatient building first; the booking itself is arranged separately after that visit.

The patient, or someone on their behalf, must come in person to general reception or the obstetrics outpatient desk to complete the booking; we are not able to take a booking by phone. A first-visit appointment can be booked once the booking itself is complete, and can also be booked by phone afterward. (This first-visit booking is available only to patients planning to deliver here.)

We recommend booking your first visit as early as possible, ideally by 15 weeks; if that is not possible, please talk to reception. If a first-visit booking cannot be made within a reasonable time, or a booked first visit is missed without notice, your delivery booking may be cancelled.

This hospital does not accept multiple-birth deliveries or deliveries following egg donation. For a higher-risk pregnancy due to complications, we may recommend delivery at a university hospital instead, and may decline a booking at the first visit on that basis.

We use the Pokemed app, which lets you check your place in the queue before a visit, among other features.

What you'll need to complete your booking

• Health insurance card
• Patient card, if you have one
• Your estimated due date
• The date your heartbeat was confirmed
• The patient's name, date of birth, address, and phone number
• An emergency contact
• Obstetric pre-visit questionnaire (please download the PDF and complete it in advance)
• Treatment application and comprehensive consent form, and personal information consent form (first-time patients: please download and complete these in advance)

Planned delivery

We offer planned delivery for patients who wish for it; please raise this with your physician at your first visit. Depending on scheduling, a planned delivery may need to go on a waiting list.

NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing)

Please raise this at your first obstetric visit if you are interested. This test is available only to patients with a delivery booking here, and requires a separate appointment on another day for counselling and the test itself.

Infection control at your visit

• Please wear a non-woven mask for every obstetrics outpatient visit.
• If you have a fever of 37.5°C or higher, or any infection symptoms, please call us before your visit rather than attending in person.
• Please refrain from bringing your other children where possible; where unavoidable, we will check their health and ask them to wear a mask.
• We check every patient's health status at reception.

Your first obstetric visit

On arrival

After scanning your patient card at the reception kiosk, please present your insurance card at the obstetrics reception desk.

At the nurses' station

Please submit the following at the nurses' station:

• Your Maternal and Child Health Handbook
• Your medication notebook
• Your prenatal checkup coupon booklet
• A basal body temperature chart, if you have kept one since your last period
• A referral letter, if you attended another clinic
• All ultrasound images, if you attended another clinic
• Test results, if you attended another clinic
• The obstetric pre-visit questionnaire, if someone booked on your behalf
• Your other child's Maternal and Child Health Handbook, if applicable

Consultation and payment

Please go to the consultation room when called. Afterward, submit your file at the obstetrics payment desk and wait to be called. Patients using our pay-later system, Rakuda, do not need to pay on the day; see the dedicated page for details (available only to residents of Tokyo).

Regular prenatal checkups

Please book through the obstetrics outpatient desk; general reception or the appointment centre can also take this booking, up to two visits ahead.

Prenatal checkups are generally every four weeks up to 6 months, every two weeks for months 7 to 9, and weekly from month 10 onward.

Our obstetrics clinic is fully by appointment, though your physician's involvement in a delivery or emergency surgery can sometimes mean a wait; please ask our outpatient nurses if you have questions about waiting time. Your first visit and your 32-week checkup both involve more thorough review and take longer, so we recommend booking these on a day when your schedule allows extra time.