Here you find links to carefully selected organisations and companies I can recommend for the services, products or information they provide.

Rescue & Emergency Services in Switzerland

112 – European emergency number
144 – Emergency medical service EMS/ambulance
117 – Police
118 – Fire services
145 – Tox Info Suisse/Poison Control Centre

1414 – REGA, air rescue
1415 – Air-Glacier, air rescue
144 – Air Zermatt, air rescue

140 – Break-down service
143 – Dargebotene Hand, Crisis Line – mental health support
147 – Children & Youth Emergency Line – German only
163 – Road condition
187 – Avalanche bulletin

0848 35 345 55 – Parents’ Emergency Line
0800 211 222 – Animal Rescue Service

More numbers are listed on notfallnummern.ch.

For a list of Paediatric Emergency Numbers, check out my PDF document under Downloads

Safety Products & Services

Excel Security Solutions offer “Life Skills” workshops on safety, awareness and self-defence for children, adolescents, and adults, including gap year preparation and courses for girls and women.

Fun Family Products

Good ID! sells fun and practical products for children and parents.

Family Counselling

LilyBee Christine Bliven studied clinical psychology with a focus on early childhood mental health, is a Babywearing Consultant and a Birth and Bereavement Doula and offers support for pregnancy and parenthood in Zürich. I now run my First Aid on Children courses for parents in the LilyBee location in Zürich.

Milk & Motherhood Johanna is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), teacher, research assistant and writer and if you are in search for lactation support, she is your go-to consultant. 

Karin Hagelin Emotional Resilience Coach offers grief counselling, life crisis and stress management coaching. Karin also runs EFT Tapping workshops.

Nurture Hub Cassie Meyer is a Early Years Development Specialist and provides support and advice to international families through workshops, consultancy and classes for young children in Lucerne, Zug and Zurich. She also offers phonics group classes and indivdual English tuition from 4 years.

Newborn Mums Angie Borzychowski, PhD is a Perinatal Educator, Breastfeeding Counsellor and Group Facilitator and offers ante- and postnatal support and “Starting Solids” workshops

Prince New Life Janet Prince is a midwife, lactation consultant, and ante/post-natal counsellor and comes highly recommended. 

Family Services 

Rockmybaby® Switzerland is a franchise of the international nanny and babysitting agency providing Nannies, AuPairs, Housekeepers and Babysitters to families across Switzerland.

KiddieLand published a checklist for parents to help finding THEIR KiTa (Kindertagesstätte)/childcare. KiddieLand is a bilingual childcare provider in Zürich.

ch.ch is the online presence of the Swiss authorities and available in English. The link will take you directly to the very helpful and informational page regarding pregnancy and birth  – everything you need to know about registering your newborn, health insurance and much more.

care 4 kidsprovides babysitters and nannies in the city of Zürich, the right , left and lower Lakeside and in Zürcher Unter- and Oberland, including emergency services.

Driving & Swiss Driver’s License

bfu – Kinder im Auto is a page by the bfu (Swiss Council for Accident Prevention) with the regulations and recommendations how children need to be secured in car seats in Switzerland.

Führerausweise provides general information about obtaining a driver’s license in Switzerland (not canton specific).

Road Traffic Authorities in Switzerland has links to all road traffic authorities in Switzerland.

Umschrieb ausländischer Führerausweise Strassenverkehrsamt Kanton Baselland has information, in German only, about converting a foreign license obtained during a stay abroad (exchange student- or university programme).

Der Schweizer Fahrlehrervergleich lets you search for driving instructors and driving schools by the services they provided, including an instructing language search option.

L-Studio Bern offers the mandatory “Verkehrskunde-Unterricht” (traffic awareness or traffic or danger sensitisation course) in English on demand in Bern.

Fahrschule Müller also offers the mandatory “Verkehrskunde-Unterricht” (traffic awareness or traffic or danger sensitisation course) in English in Oerlikon, Zürich.

2-Phasen.ch is a website with all information required to learn about the mandatory further education courses (WAB) required before converting a temporary license into a permanent license (German, French and Italian only)

TCS Suisse has information about the WAB courses (in French called Formation en deux phases) on their website.

Canton Geneva also has information about the course “formation en deux phases” on their website (French only).

Reiseziele – Travel Destinations The website of the Swiss Touring Club lists mandatory requirements for within the car when travelling abroad (German, French and Italian).

AA – European Driving Advice The website of British motoring association AA has great advice for travelling in Europe including a list of mandatory equipment in the most popular European countries.

Providers of WAB courses in English

Verkehrszentrum Tuggen AG is located in Tuggen, SZ (courses offered SZ and SG) and offers the WAB courses in German and English.

2PA by DRIVESWISS is in Wohlen, AG and offers the course in English and German.