Lis Maternity and Women's Hospital is at the forefront of care in pregnancy and childbirth, helping make the journey to parenthood a personalized, supportive experience – from conception through postpartum.
Together with you every step of the way
Each and every Lis team member is personally committed to you—to making your delivery an experience of a lifetime. From the skilled and compassionate staff to the extraordinary facilities, Lis Maternity Hospital is here for you, dedicated to your comfort, your individual needs and the health of your baby.
Labor and Delivery
Lis’s expert multi-disciplinary delivery team of obstetricians, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, nurse/midwives and lactation (nursing) consultants help the mother-to-be select her individual delivery, pain management, and feeding method.
One of the unique differentiators of the Lis Labor and Delivery Service is the immediate availability of epidural pain relief—supported 24/7 by unit-based anesthesiologists. This service helps mothers deliver with pleasure instead of pain.
The Lis Natural Birthing Center enables natural, medication-free delivery in a calm, homey environment with the peace of mind that Lis Hospital medical staff and facilities can provide immediate assistance if necessary.
The Lis Maternity Hospital Labor and Delivery Unit features state-of-the-art delivery rooms that are among the most welcoming and well equipped in Israel. The rooms are designed for both function and the comfort of the mother and her support partners. All delivery rooms support pain management methods as well as assisted and natural medication-free childbirth.
Women can choose from a number of relaxation and pain relief methods, such as movement techniques, aqua-therapy, aromatic massage, and TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation). Delivery nurses are specially trained in these interventions.
Mothers-to-be may elect to receive an epidural immediately upon request, under the condition that the progress of the delivery allows it. Lis uses the EpiKal method of epidural anesthesia, which provides women with desired pain relief, while keeping them in control and involved in the progress of their delivery. The technique is very similar to an epidural, except for the concentration of the injected anesthetic substance. This technique enables women to move around in bed without pain.
Operating rooms dedicated to caesarian sections (emergency and elective) and a state-of-the-art recovery facility are located on the unit. There are two units for neonatal intensive care, should the need arise.
Maternity Departments
After you deliver, you remain for observation in the delivery room (or the recovery room after a cesarean section) for two hours and are then transferred to the postpartum Maternity Unit A, B or C
During your hospitalization, the professional staff of nurses, doctors, aides and breastfeeding counselors is there to provide you with quality personalized medical care. Your support team also includes a secretary and a social worker
Doctor's exam
A doctor will examine you at least twice during your stay: within the first several hours your arrival on the unit and before you are discharged. In addition, if you need an additional assessment or exam, please contact the department secretary.
Nurse's examination
During the first several hours following your delivery, the nurse will examine, guide and advise you. If you need painkillers or any assistance, you are invited to contact the staff, who will be happy to be at your disposal. If you are dizzy, have excessive bleeding (more than normal menstrual volume – more than 3 pad changes in half an hour), severe pain in the perineum (the space between the vulva and the anus), please notify the nurse, who will follow up with the appropriate intervention.
Breastfeeding consultation
The breastfeeding consultant is available throughout the day and evening. You can receive breastfeeding consulting as necessary by scheduling with the department secretary. This free service is supplementary to the routine breastfeeding consultation provided by the departmental nurses.
Lis offers two rooming-in options:
- The Center for Parent-Newborn Bonding
The baby-friendly center enables you and your partner to keep your baby around-the-clock – from the moment you deliver until you are discharged home. The postpartum nurse instructs you on caring for your baby. Should your baby need testing, you or your partner may accompany the newborn and be present during the testing.
- Partial rooming in
This option enables babies to room in with you. You may return your baby to the nursery when you choose.
The amount of time your baby stays with you is up to you, unless there is a medical indication – as directed by the pediatrician. Lis encourages parents to keep their babies in their rooms, offering you the full support and assistance of the newborn care team.
One significant other can stay in your room 24/7. Others are invited to visit you and your baby during visiting hours as follows:
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
During your stay in the department, you will receive personal meals served to you from a diverse, nutritious menu. If you are vegan, vegetarian or diabetic, or need gluten-free or low-lactose foods, please indicate this when ordering your meal on your in-room computer screen. Ultra-Orthodox patients can request "Mehadrin" kosher meals.
Approximate meal times
8:00 AM – Breakfast
12:30 PM – Lunch
6:30 PM – Dinner
If you arrive on the unit after mealtime, the nurse's aide can bring you a light meal and the hot drink of your choice. For your convenience, there is also a beverage station located in the unit lobby during all hours of the day and night.
For your convenience, each patient has a computer system, where you can watch training videos on postpartum recovery, breastfeeding and baby care, specially produced for Lis patients. You can also order personal meals, surf the internet and play computer games.
Below are the main courses provided regularly to new mothers. Please check with the unit secretary on the tutorial schedule and location.
- Breastfeeding: Postpartum nurses provide group breastfeeding instruction.
- Baby comes home: The home baby-care instruction course is open to all new mothers.
- Baby-care: On the unit, the nurse can provide new mothers instruction on bottle feeding, diapering, saving pumped breastmilk, etc.
During your stay, you will receive self-care instruction. In preparation for your discharge, the unit nurses will instruct you on postpartum recovery (the first 6 weeks after delivery) and the changes to expect during that time.
After a routine birth, you will be hospitalized between 36 and 48 hours, and after a C-section, you will stay for 72 hours. Discharges are scheduled daily based on patient delivery time, and can occur up until 9:00 PM.
Discharge
On the morning of discharge, you will be examined by a doctor, and the nurse will give you a discharge letter from the maternity ward. This starts at approximately 9:00 AM.
Mothers can release their babies from the nursery after presenting the following items:
- The release letter from the maternity ward
- A completed newborn registration form
- Baby clothes
- A car seat or baby carrier
High Risk Pregnancy
The Maternal Fetal Medicine Department, a national referral center for women, treats pregnant women at high risk for complications during labor and delivery. Referrals can be for either obstetric or non-obstetric problems.
Committed staff
The department staff includes doctors, nurses, midwives, social workers, and psychologists. For the benefit of each patient, ongoing collaboration takes place with specialists across various disciplines, such as general surgery, cardiology, hematology, endocrinology, neurology, and internal medicine.
- Preterm delivery symptoms - The success rate of preventing preterm delivery is particularly high, and women are treated medically to delay labor and to allow fetal lung maturation
- Bleeding due to placental problems
- High blood pressure in pregnancy (including pregnancy-induced hypertension and chronic hypertension)
- Inappropriate fetal size (small and large for gestational age)
- Treatment and monitoring of pregnancy-induced diabetes
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Twins and multiple pregnancies
- Insufficient amniotic fluid
- Injury during pregnancy
- Treatment for fetal hemolytic disease
- Fetal hydrops
- Congenital defects
The department coordinates care with neonatal specialists for pre-delivery consultation in women at high risk for preterm delivery as well as for fetal anomalies, which may require special treatment or work-up for their newborns.
Interdisciplinary care is also coordinated with the staff of the Ultrasound Institute, who perform scans to identify problems and offer options for in-utero interventions when needed.
The department treats and follows women with chronic illnesses which may be exacerbated during pregnancy or which may impact pregnancy, such as:
- Renal disease
- Asthma and respiratory illnesses
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Thrombocytopenia
- Thromboembolic diseases
- Cardiac disease
- Neurological disorders such as epilepsy
- Connective tissue diseases such as lupus (SLE)
- Acute and chronic infections
Pregnant women with these chronic conditions are cared for by the perinatology staff of the High Risk Pregnancy Unit, taking into account both the mother's health issues and the fetus' well-being.
Women with high-risk pregnancies may at some point require active induction of labor. The induction process is begun in the unit, and the women are transferred to the Labor and Delivery Unit, which then manages the delivery.
The Maternal Fetal Medicine department is a leader in Israel and around the world in research and treatment of the relationship between high-risk pregnancy (such as toxemia, inappropriate fetal size, placental abruption, fetal death in utero, and recurrent spontaneous abortion) and maternal coagulopathy (a tendency to develop blood clots).
Research and treatment of these conditions is done hand-in-hand with the Medical Center’s Hematology Institute. Women from around the country are referred to the unit for consultation and medical care. The Unit for High Risk Pregnancy staff is invited to lecture and consult on the subject around the world, including participation in initiatives sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in the United States. In addition to clinical work, the unit actively engages in academic activity—in medical research, clinical trials, instruction, and lectures at the medical and nursing schools of Tel Aviv University