Hilfe zur Gesundheit Erbringung als Gesundheitsberatung anlässlich von Erstkontakten bei Familien mit Säuglingen

If you receive social welfare or basic income support and have just had a baby, the social welfare office will cover the cost of counseling sessions.

Many parents experience situations in the first months and years of their child's life that make them unsettling, anxious or overwhelmed.

Health care provides mothers and fathers with advice on issues such as:

• insatiable screaming and frequent restlessness of the infant
• On and through difficulty sleeping
• Problems with breastfeeding, feeding and eating
• Behavioural abnormalities such as excessive anger and defiance, anxiousness or aggressiveness, lack of gambling
• Separation fears and difficulties
• tense family situation
• Relationship problems
• Overwork, uncertainty and exhaustion
• postnatal depression

• Request for health assistance
• Identity card or passport (or other documents that the person can clearly identify)

The competent social assistance institution shall provide information on the documents required in individual cases.

Health assistance is provided to persons,

• who do not have statutory health insurance or do not have sufficient private health insurance,
• the provision of services through the health insurance fund (§ 264 para. 4 SGB V) is out of the question
• and who cannot reasonably be expected to raise the funds for the necessary assistance from their income and assets.

none

• Health assistance services
• Counseling for parents of newborns

Responsible is the

• the social welfare office of the local social assistance institution

or

• the social welfare office of the municipality of the local social welfare institution,

in which the domicile is located.