Here's a summary of this post (because it is a behemoth!) if you want to skip to a certain section:
- General Intro
- Just me blabbing like I always do.
- Pregnancy while waiting for your residence permit: What are your options?
- Notes about requesting priority
- Attempting an "Inifrån Ansökan" (doing your wait within Sweden)
- Giving birth in Sweden without a residence permit
- Other birth alternatives and options
- Pregnancy in Sweden: After you relocate to Sweden
- How to get set up with proper appointments
- The Swedish Pre-Natal process (terminology, Sweden's approach to pregnancy, what to expect, etc.)
- Terminology, abbreviations, and how the process works
- Things you need to know about ultrasounds, medical tests, childbirth classes, etc.
- Maternity leave, parternity leave, and barnbidrag
- Tips and Advice: Joining Support Groups
- Oh god... from one support group to another! No but seriously, baby groups (especially Swedish ones) are a godsend in order to get you connected with people who are going through the process alongside you.
- Tips and Advice: The Holy Grail of Buying Everything Baby-Related in Sweden
- An exhaustive guide of where to buy shit, online retailers (and what they are good or bad for) and my own product reviews of things I bought after obsessive research. You know how I am.
- Product Reviews
- This is a list of a few key (mostly big-ticket) items I bought after months of research, and why I chose them over other competitors (which i will also list, along with links to certain product review sites which I found helpful).
- Movies Streaming on Youtube (for free!) about the amazingness of fetal development
- It's random, but I'm a science nerd and I want to save these links somewhere!
