> With our maternal and child >health nursing system, the nurse (triple-certificate) would visit in the >first week home and do a weigh. (At no cost to the family). Not only do you do follow ups in the first week, but the nurse comes to the mother. In my experience in the US, moms are expected to bring their babie to the doctor's office or clinic in the first two weeks post partum. LCs, VNA's, and hospice nurses are the only practitioners I know of in the US who stil do home visits. New moms are told to rest, take it easy and not go out in the early post partum period EXCEPT to bring the baby for weight and early health checks. The same is true of women on bed rest in late pregnancy. Women are to stay in bed except to use the bathroom and visit their docs (or midwives). If others have different experience, please correct my misperception, it's one of my "pet peeves" and I'd love to know that I'm wrong or that other places do it differently. Naomi Bar-Yam *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html