Daily Routine in Wartime
Information center and how to establish a daily routine in wartime
Information center and how to establish a daily routine in wartime
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Hospital Elective Activities
All the information about the hospitals that have renewed their elective (non-urgent) activities. -
Family Care Centers
Due to the emergency, Tipat Halav clinics provide local and accessible services throughout Israel for anyone who is away from home. For further information, call the Ministry of Health's Hotline… -
Self-Care to Be Able to Help Others
During emergencues, parents have a twofold challenge: function and cope with the situation themselves, so they can support and communicate the situation to their children. This way you can take… -
Healthy Nutrition in Emergency
Healthy nutrition is important and helps reinforcing our physical and mental resilience. We have gathered here all the information, hotlines and phone numbers on the subject of nutritional counseling and… -
Keeping Children and Adults Busy
Keeping busy and active during crisis times carries therapeutic powers. It helps self-regulation of powerful emotions, relieve tensions and maintain resilience. We have gathered here some examples for suitable activities. -
Screens in Wartime
Everything you need to know about screen time, both during emergency situations and in general. Pros, cons and what is the recommended screen time for every age group. -
Child and Teenager Online Safety
Especially during war and emergency situations, like the one that we are currently experiencing, the internet provides us with escapism and pleasure, but it may also present us with challenges… -
Information Security and Cyber Security
Alongside physical attacks, the State of Israel is also currently facing many cyber threats against citizens, organizations and companies. -
Staying Home with the Children
Prolonged stay at home with the children may increase both our stress and our children's. Important guidelines for prolonged stay at home and for relieving children's stress and trauma. -
Leaving Children Home Alone
According to law, you can leave children alone at home from the age of 6, but it is recommended not to leave them alone before the age of 9, as… -
Helping Children Understand Tragic Events
A couple of tips that will help you if you need to talk to your children about difficult subjects. -
Parents in Active Military Service
How you can help your children cope with the recruitment of a parent to military service. It is important to remember that recruitment causes pressure but it also provides an… -
Pregnancy and Labor During Wartime
At times of emergency, such as war, we are exposed to stressful situations that affect the health of the mother and the fetus. It is crucial to follow the pregnancy… -
To Breastfeed is to Provide Resilience
Especially during emergency and crisis situations, breastfeeding was found to be especially healthy both for the breastfeeding mother and the nursing baby. All information about breastfeeding during stressful and emergency… -
Traumatic Stress While Pregnant or Breastfeeding
All the information for women who are coping with stress and trauma while they are pregnant or breastfeeding. Tips for coping with stress, emotional support hotlines and more. -
Older Adults in Wartime
During war situations, when everyone's level of anxiety is on the rise, it is even more elevated in older adults. All the information about making accommodations to their home environment… -
Substance Abuse
Stressful and emergency situation may increase abuse of such substances as drugs and alcohol. You should avoid abusing these substances to avoid addiction and you should seek professional help or…
Pregnancy and Labor During Wartime
In every pregnancy, especially during wartime, there is great importance for pregnancy follow-up – first and foremost, it is intended to reduce possible complications for the mother and the newborn. During emergencies, such as war, there is great exposure to stressful situations that can affect the mother's health, as well as the fetus's health. Therefore, and especially now, it is crucial to adhere to regular pregnancy follow-up and get support.
Important actions during pregnancy
- Pregnancy follow-up: regular follow-up, according to your accompanying physicians and nurses, including monitoring weight, blood pressure, urine protein, blood tests and ultrasound, according to the instructions and your pregnancy week.
- Routine vaccination: whooping cough vaccine (in the third trimester), flu vaccine, and COVID-19 vaccine, according to recommendations.
- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle: balanced diet, physical activity adapted to the pregnancy and your physical condition, consumption of the dietary supplements recommended during pregnancy, avoiding alcohol and drugs.
Due to the war, there may be changes in the maternity wards and in the regular hospitalization options: zero separation, full-time rooming-in and partial or flexible rooming-in.
Labor and hospitalization
The Ministry of Health recommends that the mother and newborn to stay together as much as possible. Staying together has many advantages that contribute to the mother's and the baby's health and advance the recovery. During wartime there is an additional advantage in being close to the baby: moving together to the protected space, if necessary.
During wartime, hospitalization duration may be shorter, in certain clinical situations that enable it. It is recommended to arrive for labor with the necessary equipment for leaving the house: clothing for the mother and the newborn, infant car seat, parents' documents, etc.
Emotional support
Stressful situations can increase the risk of mood swings, which may reach the point of postpartum depression. Support from the people surrounding the mother is important for building resilience and reducing the phenomenon: care for the mother's physical needs, such as nutritional food, drinks, sleep, and give her emotional support, including conversations, breathing and relaxation exercises and more. If the woman's partner is not around due to the war, this should be taken into account, and assistance should be given.
Hotlines
- HMOs' hotlines.
- Assistance for pregnant women or families with children up to the age of 6:
- Call *5400 or 08-6241010 – extension 2 and then 9.
- Sunday to Thursday from 16:00 to 21:00, and Friday and holiday eves from 9:00 to 13:00.
- The hotline offers the advice of Tipat Halav nurses, specialist nutritionists for young children, lactation, sleep and preemies consultants, and guidance following birth regarding the tretment of the newborn, vaccination side effects, development, breastfeeding, nutrition, crying and sleep problems.
- The service is available in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian.
- Hotline for young children – for parents and family members by the Duet Institute and the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
- By telephone: 054-7503970
- ERAN
- By telephone: 1201
- NATAL
- By telephone: 1-800-363-363