Children’s Health
Should you register an official complaint against a hospital or doctor? Is that possible?
The short answer is yes and yes.
Navigating Mental Health in Young Children [Mental Health Awareness Series #2]
A few weeks ago, I posted an Ask Aviva question about getting permission for a certain medication for a nine-year-old child with bipolar disorder. My answer addressed how to get permission, but one reader was shocked that a nine year old had been diagnosed with bi-polar. “Get a second opinion!” this reader advised, their underlying implication …
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Emergency Services for Children: What are my options and what do I do?
I remember a few years back, I was speaking to another mother at the park when I mentioned, laughingly, about how at one point I had asked Terem [medical emergency clinic] if they had a monthly membership fee. She looked at me funny and explained that she had never visited the ER (or Terem) …
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Does Your Baby Have an Oddly Shaped Head?
Almost all newborn babies that I have met have some kind of weird shaped head. Birth squashes newborns, especially first births, and they take the next few weeks to work back into shape. One of my clients had a baby like this. She had been in labor for three days! The baby had a funny …
Birth in Israel Part I
A few weeks ago, the Knesset passed a bill that has actually been on and off the table for almost two decades, the childbirth benefits payment from Bituach Leumi (National Insurance) for women who plan to, and deliver, at home. This means that now women who have planned home births will be eligible to receive …
Read this if you, or someone you love, will give birth in Israel
In the past few weeks, I’ve had the honor to be present at three completely different births: the unplanned home birth, a “second first birth” and a planned home birth that ended up in the hospital. These experiences reminded me of the importance of several issues, both large and small, that can greatly affect a …
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What’s with the HPV Vaccine in Israeli Schools? Or Why Should You Talk with your Preteen about Sexuality
The other day, my eighth grader brought home a letter from the school, which requested that I deny, or provide, my permission for her to receive the HPV vaccine, newly entered into the ‘basket’ of services. Spoiler alert, this will not be a post about whether or not to give your child the HPV vaccine, …
Moving to Israel with a Special Needs Child
Twenty five years ago, Sarah and David* received a phone call in the early morning hours. “Can you come to the hospital? Now?! “ The social worker sounded insistent, and Sarah and David, sleepy and confused, arrived at the hospital to find a tiny, squalling, day old, obviously sickly, infant, in the hands of the …
