Long flight with a 6 months old baby

We just took a 14.5 hours flight with our 6 months old baby from Japan to Europe and in this post I’ll share how we manged to make it a pleasant experience for everyone involved.

How to use the corporate babysitter vouchers (ベビーシッター派遣事業割引券)?

All levels of the Japanese government have various programs to support people with kids. One of this, ベビーシッター派遣事業割引券, is a national program subsidizing baby sitters for working parents: companies can purchase baby sitter tickets and give it to their employees. My company is participating in this, and since it is a bit complicated to use, I’ll describe how to use it in this post.

Newborn baby paperwork in Tokyo

We recently had a baby in Tokyo, and in this post I’ll share our experience with the required paperwork (mostly in chronological order).

Our situation for reference:

• my wife is Japanese, thus our baby is also Japanese, so the baby doesn’t need residence card and visa
• we live in Tokyo, and some of these programs are provided by the Tokyo prefecture (but other prefecture might have similar programs)
• I work for a Japanese company as a fulltime employee (会社員), and they provides my health insurance

Tech that helped us during the first months with a newborn baby

I work in tech, and while I try to maintain a healthy work-life balance, I still use many gadgets, so I thought to share which tech solutions helped us during the first month with our newborn baby.

Why I decided to speak my language, Hungarian to our kids and raise them multilingual

We are expecting our first child very soon, so we have been thinking and discussing which language we want to speak to them. In this post I’ll go through some of the things we considered and how we arrived to a conclusion.