In China you buy earplugs in shops selling work safety gear, I have bought them for my workers in my old factory in Kunming.

look for 劳保用品 shops NOT 保健用品 ha ha!

A few parents I know are in the situation where one partner is Chinese, the other Foreign. From what they told me here are some options.

Before you have the baby you need to register the pregnancy, if you want option 1, then this will be difficult (read expensive) unless you meet their requirements. With this registration and once you have paid your hospital fees you can get your kids birth certificate.

When you have your child's birth certificate you have two options:

1. Put the kid on your wifes/husband Hukou, get a Chinese passport for travel, get a visa to visit the foreign partners country etc, they are fully Chinese citizens and get all the perks such as "free education", excellent human rights etc. If you want to chose this option then you need to follow the Chinese family planning rules, if you dont meet them and dont want to pay the fine,,then go to option 2.

2. Get a foreign passport for the baby from the embassy, get an exit permit for the baby at the PSB where the Chinese partner has their Hukou when you are planning to make your first trip our of China then get a visa for the baby before coming back to China. As the mother/father of the baby is Chinese then the kid gets a Chinese visa easily.

Hi QQWEN, I can't agree more wiht you, we have had a 土狗 for about 6 years now, great family dog, 能看家 a good local choice and much a better choice for Yunnan than a lot of the larger breeds that are "popular."

better get the test out of China, if you are in a high risk situation, in China the doctor is required to tell the health department if they find a HIV case,,which means you will get kicked out of the country.

when you spay a bitch you just ask them to remove the womb,,its the same as in the States,,but you have to ask for it to be done. The vet at the Ag Uni vet place at the end of 121 did this for our dog no problems.