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Indonesia (used to live there) - almost no health care in the villages so midwives are local granny. Some appalling old wives tales persist, eg new mum musn't drink any liquid so that she will "dry up" quickly after the birth. Also shouldn't eat eggs of chicken (so that's no protein as that is the main source) As a consequence they have pne of the worst mother and baby death rates in the world They all breast feed though, and you can do it anywhere.
Kazakhstan (where I live now) - Oh boy where do I start!!!! Abortion is a standard form or birth control, and some women have had as many as 20. When you are pregnant they will happily give you all sorts of injections for all sorts of things (including vitamins) without telling you what they are. On your due date you are addmitted to hospital and induced. No pain relief and no natural birth, the more intervention the better. Labour ward is not private, row of ladies all given birth at once. No fathers allowed. The new baby is heavily swaddled, including their head, and remains tightly swaddled until 40 days. Mum stays in hospital for about 10 days, and then no visitor allowed until 40 days. Baby is named on 40th day.
BTW I came back to UK for my ds!!
Immunisations, very efficient, nurse comes to your house the day before so that you don't miss it. Every child have an immunisation passport, so that the immunisation rate must be about 99% The timetanle is the same as UK, but they don'y give MMR, they give measles and mumps, no rubella (don't know if M&M are given together) Baby also has hep b
The general policy is the more intervention the better, the more medical stuff the batter "au naturelle" in anything is considered bizarre. One big exception is breastfeeding. The clinic VERY VERY strongly promotes brestfeeding, and exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months. (and I tell you, these ladies at the clinic are scary, I wouldn't contradict them if I was a local) They give vitamin D, but then there is a very long winter here, and all babies are wrapped in 100 layers, so they don't get any sun.
I just laughed when I read Moroccos, YES 500 blankets, especially woolly hats, and EVERY one thinks they should tell you how to bring up a baby (why isn't he wearing tights inside? - because it's like an oven in here. But his little legs will get so cold. NO, actually, he is sweating. Close the window, there's a baby in the house. Actually, some fresh air is fine. No, he will catch a chill.....)
School, they start at 5 and work in shifts (poor teachers) If you do morning school it is 8am - 12am, and afternoon school is 12-6. In our city there aren't enough schools, so they are doing three shorter shifts, and the last shift finishes at 8pm Imagine that for kindergarten!
People are very child friendly, but the city isn't. I can't get into a single shop with a buggy, they all have a flight of stairs up to the door. I've never seen a ramp anywhere (correction, only at the one small supermarket in town) Everyone lives in flats, and all the flats have stairs, even if there is a lift, you have to go up stairs to the front door. Having said that, I can get to the market with the buggy, and when I come home with baby, buggy and shopping, somebody ALWAYS carries the buggy/shopping upstairs for me. People are very helpful.
Holland (my dh is Dutch) 75% of babies are born at home. You have to decide the name immediately, because you send out birth cards straight away, and everyone is supposed to come and visit you while you Kraamzorger is with you in the first week. When visitors come, you serve them biscuits covered in "mice" little aniseed balls, either pink or blue. And you put up a wooden stork by the front door with a pink or a blue blanket to show the world that a baby has been born!
Oh, and names, everyone has an official name and then a name they use every day, so the official name is Whilhemena Theodora, but she will be called Lisa.
And there are LOADS of SAHMs in Holland