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S06E01: Birth Rush! Japan's Best Obstetrics and Gynecology

Document 72 Hours · 2015
Aired 09 Jan 2015
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Birth Rush! Japan's Best Obstetrics and Gynecology

Synopsis

3,400 babies per year. In Kumamoto Prefecture, well known for Kumamon, there is an obstetrics and gynecology clinic that boasts the highest number of births in Japan. Mothers fight day and night against labor pains and give birth to a new life with all their might. The program set up a camera in the waiting room of such a hospital to listen to the voices of families anxiously awaiting the birth of their newborns. A young father weeps in the hallway, nervous and moved. A little brother is bewildered by the arrival of his new family. The story of each family member who can only watch over their mother, but pray hard for the birth.  

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