Jul
18
Written by:
Harlan Cohen
7/18/2008 9:03 AM
If you are an expectant father in Prague, here's some added stress you and your partner could be facing:
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By Curtis M. Wong
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
Sitting in a café near Wenceslas Square, Jan Hovorka and his wife, Katka, seem like your typical new parents, doting endlessly over their 7-month-old daughter, Amálka, as she shifts restlessly in a buggy. “It’s a real joy,” Jan said of his experience as a new father. “It’s something just extraordinary.”Katka adds, “You can see she’s growing every single day. And, as she’s getting bigger, it’s becoming more and more fun to be with her.” While life is mostly blissful in the Hovorka family these days, the months leading up to Amálka’s birth last December were not so easy. Just two weeks after discovering she was pregnant, Katka was advised by colleagues and friends — many of whom had recently become parents — to register with the maternity ward at Podolí Hospital or risk being turned away from the delivery room prior to giving birth.“It was an extremely stressful scenario,” Katka said. “The situation in Prague hospitals is so bad that, even when you register, there’s no guarantee that a bed will be available for you. The whole registration procedure doesn’t make any sense to me
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