2nd prenatal visit

We are still convinced that my wife is at her 6th (now almost 7th) week so we decide to go to another hospital. This one seems to be pretty popular and is recommended by many Japanese women on review websites.
We go there at 8:30 on a holiday, wait for 2 hours before the 10 minutes visit (and i don't even get to enter the examination room). The hospital is full of new-born babies, women waiting for some surgical procedure after something went bad, and pregnant women of course. This is kind of scary to me....
This time the doctor can see a gestational sac on the ultrasound, he explains clearly that despites the date of my wife last menstruation, her ovulation probably happened much later and she is only at her 4th week at that time. She needs to wait and come back to the hospital 2 weeks after.

We leave the hospital a bit disappointed. In Japan when the doctor confirms the pregnancy, you can then go to your ward/city office and ask for the Boshi Techo, some kind of pregnancy notebook that also contains coupons for some of the prenatal visits and make your pregnancy somewhat official. My wife having trouble getting arrangements made at her office for her not to work 14 hours a day like she is doing now, we were hoping that we could get the certificate and be finally taken seriously by her company.
Now we hearing several things from different people about the certificate and the notebook, some doctors seem to require to see the baby's heartbeat (around 6w) to call you officially pregnant, some doctors seem fine with just the urine test performed at their hospital. The second step is the ward office and this time again, it is not clear what is required to receive the notebook, and it probably also depends on the city where you live.
More about it as soon i can...

First appointment to the ob/gyn

Past the excitement of the pregnancy test (and after the purchase of 2 other pregnancy tests just to make sure you never know...), we schedule her first appointment, which actually is not really an appointment in Japan. You just go there and wait for your turn. From what i read on French an American websites, you usually have to reserve an appointment one to two weeks before. In Japan, you just go and hope not too many people had the same idea as you.
I help her choosing a clinic close from home where she can go and have her first prenatal visit. The place is apparently run by a Chinese doctor who graduated from Keio university in Japan. My wife seems to be reassured by that and plans to go there the next morning.
This time i have to go to work and i can't go with her. I tell her to call me when the visit is done.
She calls me, tells me the doctor asked a few questions, she did some urine test, had some ultrasound but the doctor couldn't see anything and told it was just too early. Everything done in about 10 or 15 minutes.
She tells me the doctor is not talkative and she basically doesn't really what's happening...

If your are like us, after you go the first positive pregnancy test, you start reading about all sorts of things on internet. You read about pregnancy calendars, you enter the first day of your last menstruation and they tell you when your due date is and you read that you (i mean you or your wife) is at the 6th week of her pregnancy. You can also pictures of what the ultrasound will look like and everything. So basically when you go to the doctor will all that in your head, and the doctor tells you he doesn't see anything, you SHOULD ask why.
I wasn't with my wife, i can imagine she wasn't that comfortable after the pelvic exam and the ultrasound, the doctor not being so talkative, she basically came home without knowing much. And then she (we) started to wonder what all this actually meant.

So first advice, before your first appointment with the doctor, prepare a list of questions, because you probably already know too much and at the same time not enough to understand the results of the first ultrasound. If you are not sure about something, ask about it right away. Internet is full of websites, blogs, forums that can answer about any question that exists about your pregnancy but at the same time for a given question you will find as many different answers as there are websites. You will just end up worrying about things that are not important.