After spending five nights in the hospital where the nurses and midwives took care of Eva and myself, showing us how to bond through breastfeeding and how to change, bathe and care for the little one, we were finally discharged. Dave had ordered a special taxi with an infant car seat for the trip home. In Japan, they are ok with carrying the baby in a carrier and put the safety belt around both the mother and baby in the carrier but I wasn’t convinced. The taxi picked us up outside the hospital. It was weird to carry Eva outside the hospital, it felt like we were doing something wrong …
It was a rainy day, I felt so relieved in the taxi, knowing I was going home; there would be no nurse, no health check, no noise… I sat at the back with Eva in her car seat and Dave was at the front chatting to our lady driver.
