It is challenging raising an infant, but when parents are able to get the right services and facilities it becomes easier. There is a variety of counselling services, mental health services, counselling and counselling for parents and local and national organisations and a variety of programs in the UAE Parental Health Programs For Little Ones.

Let’s take a look at some other support services and resources for infants in the UAE. 

Local and National Support Organizations

There are many organisations in the UAE that exist to help parents and their newborns. These organisations offer your health tips, parenting classes and support groups among others.

Emirates Health Services (EHS)

The EHS provides various services for infants such as immunisation services, periodic health assessments, developmental monitoring among others. Besides, they offer knowledge support to enable parents to make right decisions on their baby’s health.

Dubai Health Authority (DHA)

DHA provides multiple services related to child health such as immunisation and well baby clinics. They also include on-line facilities and health instructions for parents to guarantee the parents-to-be have accurate and updated information.

Mother and Child Care Centers

These are facilities available all over the UAE which provide total care to both the mother and the child from prenatal and postnatal care, breastfeeding consultancy to the normal check ups on the baby.

La Leche League UAE

This organisation offers support and information to mothers who practise breastfeeding. They provide individual counselling sessions, group discussion and Web page support to guide these mothers regarding the difficulties faced during breastfeeding.

Counselling and Mental Health Centre

The welfare of the parents and the babies is very important as this is the life of the nation. In regards to child mental health the UAE provides different counselling and mental health services for families with children.

Thrive Wellbeing Centre

Thrive is one of the new age counselling service providers based in Dubai which provides counselling services to new parents to handle the stress they encounter. Some of them include one-on-one and group counselling, psychoeducation such as postpartum depression and anxiety.

Camali Clinic

Camali Clinic is focused on children and adolescents’ mental modalities; thus, it provides services for infants who might suffer from developmental or behavioural disorders. Currently, they have employed personnel such as psychologists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists to help in the growth of infants’ mental health.

Priory Wellbeing Centre

Priory has offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and provides a variety of mental health services among which are consultation for parents who have recently given birth. They help women renegotiate the patterns of depression, anxiety, and other psychological disorders which may occur after childbirth.

Community Health Programs

It is for this reason that community health programs appear to have a key function in the support and sustenance of the physical wellbeing as well as the developmental quality of life amongst infants in the UAE. These are programs which are aimed at encouraging families to adopt healthy lifestyles and to offer basic health care to families.

Maternal and Child Health Program (MCH)

As a component of the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention, the MCH program is aimed at increasing maternal and child health. They are services like ante-natal care, immunisation, growth and development assessment and health promotion.

Breastfeeding Support Programs

There are different breastfeeding support services that can be availed in the UAE which includes hospital-based workshops and individual appointments with qualified lactation consultants. These programs seek to inform mothers on the importance of breastfeeding and possible Assistance on issues that relate to breastfeeding.

Community Health Awareness Campaigns

The UAE carries out health education exercises which include immunisation, nutrition and development of children under the age of five. Such campaigns are normally carried out by the local health departments and are meant to inform parents on the most appropriate ways of raising children.

Healthcare Providers

The primary source of getting the help is through a paediatrician or a family doctor, depending on children’s age. They have information about special centres or other organisations which would suit the needs of an infant.

Online Portals

Several health services and organisations in UAE have websites through which you can schedule appointments, learn more about illnesses and ways to prevent or treat them and get phone numbers and addresses of other services that you might require.

Community Centers

Many facilities which are available in every local centre can be parenting workshop, support groups, and health programs. It is always helpful to pay a visit to any/closest community centre as it may put you through to some essential resources and parents of such children as well.

There is also more than adequate support services and resources from the UAE to assist parents who find it hard to deal with an infant. Whether it be from community, regional, or even state-based organisations or through counselling agencies and community health programs, there are many programs available to help in the promotion of your baby’s health.